Mark Linn-Baker Biography

Fast Facts

• Spent three years performing with the Yale Repertory Theatre
• Assumed his hyphenated stage name early in his professional career after learning that the name Mark Baker was already registered at the actors' union
• Made his breakthrough in screen acting in the 1982 comedic film My Favorite Year, starring opposite Peter O'Toole as a young writer who tries to keep O'Toole's character sober
• Cofounded the New York Stage and Film Company in 1985
• Known to TV fans as high-strung Larry in the 1986-93 sitcom hit Perfect Strangers
• Helped adapt his father-in-law Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad series of children's books into a Tony-nominated musical titled A Year With Frog and Toad; went on to play the role of Toad in the original Broadway production in 2003