Diane Baker Biography

Fast Facts

• In 2004, she was made the director of the Motion Pictures and Television major at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco
• Trained at the Estelle Harman Workshop before gaining a contract with Twentieth Century Fox
• Moved to New York at the age of 18 to study acting with drama coach Charles Conrad
• Often takes on the role of characters who are in suspenseful situations
• Participated in the Miss Rheingold beauty pageant in 1957
• Replaced actress Tippi Hedren in the role of Shela in "Mirage" only because Alfred Hitchcock told director Edward Dmytryk that Hedren did not want to work with him