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Carroll Baker is a retired American actress of film, stage, and television. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Baker's range of roles from young ingénues to brash and flamboyant women established her as both a pin-up and serious dramatic actress. 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. Her role in the film as a coquettish but sexually naïve Southern bride earned her BAFTA and Oscar nominations for Best Actress, as well as a Golden Globe award for Most Promising Newcomer that year.
Born
Thursday, 28 May 1931
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation | Baby Doll | 2021 |
| The Lyon's Den | Jack's Mother | 2003 |
| Images of Indians: How Hollywood Stereotyped the Native American | Self / Deborah Wright (from Cheyenne Autumn (1964)) | 2003 |
| Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King | Self | 2003 |
| Cinerama Adventure | Self | 2002 |
| Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration | Self | 2001 |
| Another Woman's Husband | Laurel's Mom / Laurel’s mother | 2000 |
| Roswell | Claudia Parker | 1999 |
| E! Mysteries & Scandals | Self | 1998 |
| Rag and Bone | Sister Marie, Tony's Aunt | 1998 |
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation | Baby Doll | 2021 |
| The Lyon's Den | Jack's Mother | 2003 |
| Images of Indians: How Hollywood Stereotyped the Native American | Self / Deborah Wright (from Cheyenne Autumn (1964)) | 2003 |
| Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King | Self | 2003 |
| Cinerama Adventure | Self | 2002 |
| Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration | Self | 2001 |
| Another Woman's Husband | Laurel's Mom / Laurel’s mother | 2000 |
| Roswell | Claudia Parker | 1999 |
| E! Mysteries & Scandals | Self | 1998 |
| Rag and Bone | Sister Marie, Tony's Aunt | 1998 |
| Heart Full of Rain | Edith Pearl Dockett | 1997 |
| The Game | Ilsa | 1997 |
| Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western | Self | 1997 |
| Skeletons | Nancy Norton | 1997 |
| North Shore Fish | Arlyne | 1997 |
| Return to 'Giant' | Self | 1996 |
| Dalva | Naomi | 1996 |
| Clark Gable: Tall, Dark and Handsome | Self - Actress | 1996 |
| Storie di seduzione | Francesca / Diana's Mother | 1995 |
| Chicago Hope | Sylvie Tannen | 1994 |
| A Kiss to Die For | Mrs. Graham | 1993 |
| South of Sunset | Mrs. Weston | 1993 |
| Men Don't Tell | Ruth | 1993 |
| Judgment Day: The John List Story | Alma List | 1993 |
| Cyber Eden | Madame | 1992 |
| Blonde Fist | Lovell Summers / Lovelle Summers | 1991 |
| P.S.I. Luv U | Victoria | 1991 |
| Kindergarten Cop | Eleanor Crisp | 1990 |
| Grand | Viva | 1990 |
| Tales from the Crypt | Mother Paloma | 1989 |
| Talking Pictures | Self | 1988 |
| Ironweed | Annie Phelan | 1987 |
| Biography | Self | 1987 |
| Hollywood Uncensored | Herself / Self | 1987 |
| Native Son | Mrs. Dalton | 1986 |
| L.A. Law | Rae Morrison | 1986 |
| Nightlife | Self | 1986 |
| American Masters | Self / Actress 'Giant' | 1986 |
| Hitler's S.S.: Portrait in Evil | Gerda Hoffman | 1985 |
| Murder, She Wrote | Sibella Stone | 1984 |
| The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud | Mama Freud | 1984 |
| Red Monarch | Ellen Brown | 1983 |
| Star 80 | Dorothy's Mother / Dorothy's Mum | 1983 |
| Sixty Years of Seduction | (archive footage) | 1981 |
| The Watcher in the Woods | Helen Curtis | 1980 |
| The World Is Full of Married Men | Linda Cooper | 1979 |
| Cyclone | Sheila | 1978 |
| Bad | Hazel Aiken | 1977 |
| Bait | Carol | 1976 |
| My Father's Wife | Laura | 1976 |
| As of Tomorrow | Polly Pott | 1976 |
| Bloodbath | Treasure | 1975 |
| The Private Lesson | Laura Formenti | 1975 |
| Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television | Self | 1975 |
| James Dean: The First American Teenager | Self | 1975 |
| At Last, at Last | Lucia | 1975 |
| Her Harem | Margherita | 1975 |
| The Body | Madeliene | 1974 |
| The Flower with the Deadly Sting | Evelyne Graffi | 1973 |
| Baba Yaga | Baba Yaga | 1973 |
| Thriller | Sandy Marshall | 1973 |
| Knife of Ice | Martha Caldwell | 1972 |
| The Devil with Seven Faces | Mary Harrison / Julie Harrison | 1971 |
| Captain Apache | Maude | 1971 |
| The Fourth Victim | Julie Spencer / Lillian Martin | 1971 |
| A Quiet Place to Kill | Helen | 1970 |
| So Sweet... So Perverse | Nicole Perrier | 1969 |
| The David Frost Show | Self | 1969 |
| The Sweet Body of Deborah | Deborah | 1968 |
| Paranoia | Kathryn / Kathryn West | 1968 |
| Jack of Diamonds | Carroll Baker | 1967 |
| The Bob Hope Vietnam Christmas Show | Self | 1966 |
| Harlow | Jean Harlow | 1965 |
| Mister Moses | Julie Anderson | 1965 |
| The Greatest Story Ever Told | Veronica | 1965 |
| Sylvia | Sylvia: West (Karoki, Kay, Carlyle) | 1965 |
| Cheyenne Autumn | Deborah Wright | 1964 |
| The Carpetbaggers | Rina Marlowe Cord / Rina Marlowe | 1964 |
| Missing Links | Self - guest star | 1963 |
| Station Six Sahara | Catherine | 1963 |
| How the West Was Won | Eve Prescott / Eve Prescott Rawlings | 1962 |
| The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Herself - Guest | 1962 |
| The Tonight Show | Self - Actress | 1962 |
| Something Wild | Mary Ann Robinson | 1961 |
| The Mike Douglas Show | Herself - Actress | 1961 |
| Bridge to the Sun | Gwen Terasaki | 1961 |
| Here's Hollywood | Self | 1960 |
| The Miracle | Teresa | 1959 |
| But Not for Me | Borden / Ellie Brown | 1959 |
| The Garry Moore Show | Self | 1958 |
| The Big Country | Patricia Terrill | 1958 |
| Baby Doll | Baby Doll Meighan | 1956 |
| Giant | Luz Benedict II | 1956 |
| Armchair Theatre | Lena Roland | 1956 |
| Easy to Love | Clarice | 1953 |
| Person to Person | Self | 1953 |
| What's My Line? | Herself - Mystery Guest | 1950 |
| Studio One | Jennie | 1948 |
| The Ed Sullivan Show | Self / Self - Singer | 1948 |
| Year | Type | Category | Won |
|---|
| 1957 | Golden Globe | Most Promising Newcomer - Female | Won |
| 1957 | Oscar | Best Actress in a Leading Role | Nominated |
| 1957 | Golden Globe | Best Actress - Drama | Nominated |
| 1957 | Golden Globe | Most Promising Newcomer - Female | Won |
