Blanche Baker
Biography
Blanche Baker is an American actress who won a Primetime Emmy Award for playing Anna Weiss in the television miniseries Holocaust (1978). Born in New York City to the actress Carroll Baker and the director Jack Garfein, she trained at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and the Herbert Berghof Studio. Her first film was the 1979 drama The Seduction of Joe Tynan, and her later screen credits include Sixteen Candles (1984), Taking Chance (2009) and The Girl Next Door (2007), as well as many television movies and series. On stage she played the title role in Edward Albee's 1981 Broadway adaptation of Lolita and, in 1987, was the first actress to take the part of Shelby in the Off-Broadway premiere of Steel Magnolias. She also teaches as senior faculty at the New York Film Academy.
69years old
Turns 70 on December 20in 68 days
- Born New York City
- Star sign: SagittariusThe sign runs November 22 to December 21
- Also credited as Blanche Garfein and Blanche Baker Magill
Movie Career
- Films
- 9
- Career span
- 38 years1979 to 2017
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First role
Blanche Baker was the first actress to play Shelby, taking the part in the original Off-Broadway staging of Steel Magnolias in 1987.
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