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Carroll Baker

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

  • Série5.8

    The Mike Douglas Show

    1961 · 11 votes

  • Série7.5

    Murder, She Wrote

    1984 · 473 votes

  • Série6.8

    The Merv Griffin Show

    1962 · 12 votes

  • Série7.0

    What's My Line?

    1950 · 29 votes

  • Série7.2

    Chicago Hope

    1994 · 83 votes

  • Série7.0

    L.A. Law

    1986 · 81 votes

  • Série6.6

    American Playhouse

    1982 · 8 votes

  • Série7.7

    Roswell

    1999 · 512 votes

Filmografia44

  1. 2003
  2. 1999
  3. 1997
  4. 1996
  5. 1994
  6. 1991
  7. 1990
  8. 1989
  9. 1987
  10. 1986
  11. 1985
  12. 1984
  13. 1983
    • Star 80

      Star 80 - A Tragédia

      Filme6.5

  14. 1982
  15. 1980
  16. 1978
  17. 1977
  18. 1975
  19. 1973
  20. 1971
  21. 1970
  22. 1969
  23. 1968
  24. 1965
  25. 1964
  26. 1963
  27. 1962
  28. 1961
  29. 1958
  30. 1956
  31. 1953
  32. 1950