Carroll Baker
cumpleaños: 1931-05-28 | lugar de nacimiento: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USACarroll Baker (born May 28, 1931) 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.
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as Deborah Wright
as Self
as Luz Benedict II
as Laurel’s mother
as Sister Marie, Tony's Aunt
as Edith Pearl Dockett
as Ilsa
as Momie
as Elaine Mitchelson
as Mrs. Graham
as Lovell Summers
as Eleanor Crisp
as Pheobe
as Annie Phelan
as Self
as Mrs. Dalton
as Gerda Hoffman
as Louise Steinhauser
as Mama Freud
as Dorothy's Mum
as Helen Curtis
as Linda Cooper
as Sheila
as Hazel Aiken
as Polly Pott
