
Carroll Baker
- Atuação
- 28 de maio de 1931 · 95 anos
- Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
Carroll 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.
Principais trabalhos
Filmografia44
- 2003
The Lyon's DenSérie8.8
- 1999
RoswellSérie7.7
- 1997
- 1996
E! True Hollywood StorySérie8.1
DalvaFilme4.0
- 1994
Chicago HopeSérie7.2
- 1991
P.S. I Luv USérie6.4
- 1990

GrandSérie6.7
- 1989
- 1987
Hollywood UncensoredFilme5.4
- 1986
L.A. LawSérie7.0
- 1985
Hitler's SS: Portrait in EvilFilme4.9
- 1984
Murder, She WroteSérie7.5
- Sharing Time
Série
- 1983
- 1982
American PlayhouseSérie6.6
- 1980
- Nobody's Perfect
Série
The Watcher in the WoodsFilme5.9
- 1978
- 1977
BadFilme6.5
- 1975
- 1973
- 1971
Captain ApacheFilme4.7
- 1970
- 1969
- W. Somerset Maugham
Série
- 1968
- 1965
- 1964
- 1963
Station Six-SaharaFilme5.9
- 1962

The Merv Griffin ShowSérie6.8
- 1961
Something WildFilme6.2
The Mike Douglas ShowSérie5.8
- 1958
- 1956
Baby DollFilme7.0

Armchair TheatreSérie6.0
CinépanoramaSérie8.7
- 1953
The OscarsSérie7.1
- 1950
What's My Line?Série7.0













