Carroll Baker
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1931-05-28 (93 years old)
Place of Birth
Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
Carroll Baker
Biography
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.
Known For
Acting
(2017)
(2011)
Hollywood Scandals
as Self
(2009)
(2008)
(2006)
Baby Doll: See No Evil
as Self
(2003)
(2002)
Cinerama Adventure
as Self
(2000)
Another Woman's Husband
as Laurel’s mother
(1998)
Nowhere to Go
as Nana
(1998)
Rag and Bone
as Sister Marie, Tony's Aunt
(1997)
The Game
as Ilsa
(1997)
(1997)
Skeletons
as Nancy Norton
(1997)
North Shore Fish
as Arlyne
(1997)
Heart Full of Rain
as Edith Pearl Dockett
(1996)
Just Your Luck
as Momie
(1996)
Dalva
as Naomi
(1996)
La signora della città
as Martha Sheppard
(1996)
Return to 'Giant'
as Self
(1996)
(1995)
(1995)
In the Flesh
as Elaine Mitchelson
(1995)
Storie di seduzione
as Diana's Mother
(1995)
(1994)
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
as Baby Doll Meighan (archive footage)
(1993)
Judgment Day: The John List Story
as Alma List
(1993)
A Kiss to Die For
as Mrs. Graham
(1993)
Men Don't Tell
as Ruth
(1992)
Cyber Eden
as Madame
(1991)
Blonde Fist
as Lovell Summers
(1990)
Kindergarten Cop
as Eleanor Crisp
(1990)
Gipsy Angel
as Pheobe
(1987)
Ironweed
as Annie Phelan
(1987)
Hollywood Uncensored
as Self
(1987)
On Fire
as Maureen Leary
(1986)
Native Son
as Mrs. Dalton
(1985)
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
as Gerda Hoffman
(1985)
What Mad Pursuit
as Louise Steinhauser
(1984)
The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
as Mama Freud
(1983)
Star 80
as Dorothy's Mum
(1983)
Red Monarch
as Ellen Brown
(1980)
The Watcher in the Woods
as Helen Curtis
(1979)
The World Is Full of Married Men
as Linda Cooper
(1978)
Cyclone
as Sheila
(1977)
Bad
as Hazel Aiken
(1976)
(1976)
Blackmail Chase
as Polly Pott
(1976)
Shattered Dreams
as Carol
(1975)
The Private Lesson
as Laura Formenti
(1975)
Valentina... The Virgin Wife
as Lucia
(1975)
Bloodbath
as Treasure
(1975)
(1975)
The Next Victim
as Sandy Marshall
(1974)
The Body
as Madeliene
(1973)
Baba Yaga
as Baba Yaga
(1973)
The Flower with Petals of Steel
as Evelyne Graffi
(1972)
Knife of Ice
as Martha Caldwell
(1971)
Captain Apache
as Maude
(1971)
The Devil with Seven Faces
as Julie Harrison / Mary Harrison
(1971)
The Fourth Victim
as Julie Spencer / Lillian Martin
(1970)
A Quiet Place to Kill
as Helen
(1969)
So Sweet... So Perverse
as Nicole Perrier
(1969)
Paranoia
as Kathryn West
(1968)
The Sweet Body of Deborah
as Deborah
(1967)
Jack of Diamonds
as Carroll Baker
(1967)
The Harem
as Margherita
(1965)
The Greatest Story Ever Told
as Veronica
(1965)
Harlow
as Jean Harlow
(1965)
Sylvia
as Sylvia: West (Karoki, Kay, Carlyle)
(1965)
Mister Moses
as Julie Anderson
(1964)
Cheyenne Autumn
as Deborah Wright
(1964)
The Carpetbaggers
as Rina Marlowe Cord
(1963)
Station Six-Sahara
as Catherine
(1963)
The Paradise Suite
as Lena Roland
(1962)
How the West Was Won
as Eve Prescott Rawlings
(1961)
Something Wild
as Mary Ann Robinson
(1961)
Bridge to the Sun
as Gwen Terasaki
(1959)
The Miracle
as Teresa
(1959)
But Not for Me
as Ellie Brown / Borden
(1958)
The Big Country
as Patricia Terrill
(1958)
Fun in the Big Country
as Self
(1956)
Giant
as Luz Benedict II
(1956)
Baby Doll
as Baby Doll Meighan
(1956)
(1953)
Easy to Love
as Clarice