Dylan Baker Biography

Fast Facts

• Was a classmate of actors Patricia Clarkson and Chris Noth at the Yale University School of Drama
• Won an Obie Award for his performance in the 1986 play Not About Heroes
• Made his big-screen debut in the 1987 comedy smash Planes, Trains and Automobiles
• Received an Independent Spirit Award for his role as a pedophile in Todd Solondz's controversial Happiness (1998)
• An award-winning narrator of audio books, his work includes John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Tom Wolfe's I Am Charlotte Simmons, Michael Crichton's Next and Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography
• In 2012, joined the cast of Political Animals, a cable drama focusing on the lives of a former first family; he took on the role of a U
• S
• vice president
• Calls his ongoing gig as a book narrator an "actor's dream" that mixes his interests in writing and storytelling