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  • BIRTH 28/05/1931
  • Country United States
  • SHOWS 4
  • MOVIES 33

Carroll Baker

Carroll Baker is a former American actress who has enjoyed popularity as both a serious dramatic actress and, particularly in the 1960s, as a movie sex symbol. After studying under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, Baker began performing on Broadway in 1954. From there, she was recruited by director Elia Kazan to play the lead in the adaptation of two Tennessee Williams plays into the film Baby Doll in 1956. In the mid-1960s, as a contract player for Paramount Pictures, Baker became a sex symbol after appearing as a hedonistic widow in The Carpetbaggers (1964). The film's producer, Joseph E. Levine, cast her in Sylvia before giving her the role of Jean Harlow in the biopic Harlow (1965). Despite significant prepublicity, Harlow was a critical failure, and Baker relocated to Italy in 1966 amid a legal dispute over her contract with Paramount and Levine's overseeing of her career. In Europe, she spent the next 10 years starring in hard-edged giallo and horror films, including Romolo Guerrieri's The Sweet Body of Deborah (1968), a series of four films with Umberto Lenzi beginning with Orgasmo (1969) and ending with Knife of Ice (1972), and Corrado Farina's Baba Yaga (1973). Baker appeared in supporting roles in several acclaimed dramas in the 1980s, including the drama Star 80 (1983) as the mother of murder victim Dorothy Stratten, and the racial drama Native Son (1986), based on the novel by Richard Wright. Through the 1990s Baker had guest roles in several television series, such as Murder, She Wrote; L.A. Law, and Roswell. She formally retired from acting in 2003.

Carroll Baker

Shows (4)

Roswell
Roswell
Claudia Parker
Murder, She Wrote
Murder, She Wrote
Sibella Stone
L.A. Law
L.A. Law
Rae Morrison
Thriller (1973)
Thriller (1973)
Sandy Marshall

Movies (33)

The Game
The Game
Ilsa
Kindergarten Cop
Kindergarten Cop
Eleanor Crisp
Giant
Giant
Luz Benedict II
How the West Was Won
How the West Was Won
Eve Prescott Rawlings
The Big Country
The Big Country
Patricia Terrill
Ironweed
Ironweed
Annie Phelan
Paranoia
Paranoia
Helen
Sylvia
Sylvia
Sylvia: West (Karoki, Kay, Carlyle)
Jackpot
Jackpot
Madame
The Greatest Story Ever Told
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Veronica
La última señora Anderson
La última señora Anderson
Julie Spencer / Lillian Martin
Hollywood Uncensored
Hollywood Uncensored
Self
But Not for Me
But Not for Me
Ellie Brown / Borden
Another Woman's Husband
Another Woman's Husband
Laurel’s mother
Cyclone
Cyclone
Sheila
Bad
Bad
Hazel Aiken
The Carpetbaggers
The Carpetbaggers
Rina Marlowe Cord
Blonde Fist
Blonde Fist
Lovell Summers
New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
Self
Il coltello di ghiaccio
Il coltello di ghiaccio
Martha Caldwell
The Watcher in the Woods
The Watcher in the Woods
Helen Curtis
Il dolce corpo di Deborah
Il dolce corpo di Deborah
Deborah
Hitler's SS : Portrait In Evil
Hitler's SS : Portrait In Evil
Gerda Hoffman
Così dolce... così perversa
Così dolce... così perversa
Nicole Perrier
Las flores del vicio
Las flores del vicio
Treasure
Il diavolo a sette facce
Il diavolo a sette facce
Julie Harrison / Mary Harrison
Baby Doll
Baby Doll
Baby Doll Meighan
L'Harem
L'Harem
Margherita
Baba Yaga
Baba Yaga
Baba Yaga
The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
Mama Freud
Star 80
Star 80
Dorothy's Mum
Cheyenne Autumn
Cheyenne Autumn
Deborah Wright
Harlow
Harlow
Jean Harlow