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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
May 28, 1931
Place of Birth
Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
Also Known As
- Carrol Baker
- Karolina Piekarski
- کارول بیکر
Carroll Baker
1.4 Popularity
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
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0.0
Self
Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour
2017
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0.0
Self
Hollywood Scandals
2011
0.0
Self
Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood
2009
8.5
Self
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
2008
0.0
Self
Baby Doll: See No Evil
2006
9.3
Jack's Mother
The Lyon's Den
2003
0.0
Self
Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King
2003
7.6
Self
Cinerama Adventure
2002
3.8
Laurel’s mother
Another Woman's Husband
2000
7.7
Claudia Parker
Roswell
1999
Credits
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Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour
as Self
2017
0.0
🎬
Hollywood Scandals
as Self
2011
0.0
Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood
as Self
2009
0.0
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
as Self
2008
8.5
Baby Doll: See No Evil
as Self
2006
0.0
The Lyon's Den
as Jack's Mother
2003
9.3
Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King
as Self
2003
0.0
Cinerama Adventure
as Self
2002
7.6
Another Woman's Husband
as Laurel’s mother
2000
3.8
Roswell
as Claudia Parker
1999
7.7
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Nowhere to Go
as Nana
1998
0.0
Rag and Bone
as Sister Marie, Tony's Aunt
1998
3.3
Heart Full of Rain
as Edith Pearl Dockett
1997
4.0
The Game
as Ilsa
1997
7.6
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
as Self
1997
0.0
Skeletons
as Nancy Norton
1997
4.1
North Shore Fish
as Arlyne
1997
0.0
Just Your Luck
as Momie
1996
3.5
Return to 'Giant'
as Self
1996
6.1
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
8.1
La signora della città
as Martha Sheppard
1996
0.0
Dalva
as Naomi
1996
3.3
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
as Self
1996
0.0
Storie di seduzione
as Diana's Mother
1995
0.0
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
as Self
1995
6.0
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
as Self
1995
5.0
In the Flesh
as Elaine Mitchelson
1995
0.0
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
as Baby Doll Meighan (archive footage)
1994
0.0
Chicago Hope
as Sylvie Tannen
1994
7.2
A Kiss to Die For
as Mrs. Graham
1993
4.4
Men Don't Tell
as Ruth
1993
6.4
Judgment Day: The John List Story
as Alma List
1993
4.5
Cyber Eden
as Madame
1992
4.7
Blonde Fist
as Lovell Summers
1991
4.6
P.S. I Luv U
as Victoria
1991
5.8
Kindergarten Cop
as Eleanor Crisp
1990
6.1
Gipsy Angel
as Pheobe
1990
3.5
Grand
as Viva
1990
5.5
Tales from the Crypt
as Mother Paloma ("segment "The Trap")
1989
8.0
Ironweed
as Annie Phelan
1987
6.3
Hollywood Uncensored
as Self
1987
5.5
On Fire
as Maureen Leary
1987
0.0
Native Son
as Mrs. Dalton
1986
5.2
L.A. Law
as Rae Morrison
1986
7.1
What Mad Pursuit
as Louise Steinhauser
1985
0.0
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
as Gerda Hoffman
1985
4.5
Murder, She Wrote
as Sibella Stone
1984
7.5
The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
as Mama Freud
1984
4.0
Star 80
as Dorothy's Mum
1983
6.4
Red Monarch
as Ellen Brown
1983
5.0
The Watcher in the Woods
as Helen Curtis
1980
5.9
The World Is Full of Married Men
as Linda Cooper
1979
5.3
Cyclone
as Sheila
1978
5.1
Bad
as Hazel Aiken
1977
6.3
Shattered Dreams
as Carol
1976
8.0
Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife
as Laura
1976
6.4
Blackmail Chase
as Polly Pott
1976
0.0
Bloodbath
as Treasure
1975
4.1
The Private Lesson
as Laura Formenti
1975
5.4
James Dean: The First American Teenager
as Self
1975
6.0
The Next Victim
as Sandy Marshall
1975
0.0
Valentina... The Virgin Wife
as Lucia
1975
5.1
The Body
as Madeliene
1974
4.4
The Flower with Petals of Steel
as Evelyne Graffi
1973
5.5
Baba Yaga
as Baba Yaga
1973
5.4
Thriller
as Sandy Marshall
1973
6.6
Knife of Ice
as Martha Caldwell
1972
6.0
The Devil with Seven Faces
as Julie Harrison / Mary Harrison
1971
4.7
Captain Apache
as Maude
1971
4.5
The Fourth Victim
as Julie Spencer / Lillian Martin
1971
5.8
A Quiet Place to Kill
as Helen
1970
6.5
So Sweet... So Perverse
as Nicole Perrier
1969
5.5
Paranoia
as Kathryn West
1969
5.9
The Sweet Body of Deborah
as Deborah
1968
5.4
Jack of Diamonds
as Carroll Baker
1967
4.2
The Harem
as Margherita
1967
5.4
Harlow
as Jean Harlow
1965
5.4
Mister Moses
as Julie Anderson
1965
4.0
The Greatest Story Ever Told
as Veronica
1965
6.4
Sylvia
as Sylvia: West (Karoki, Kay, Carlyle)
1965
6.2
Cheyenne Autumn
as Deborah Wright
1964
6.7
The Carpetbaggers
as Rina Marlowe Cord
1964
5.8
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The Paradise Suite
as Lena Roland
1963
0.0
Station Six-Sahara
as Catherine
1963
5.9
How the West Was Won
as Eve Prescott Rawlings
1962
7.0
Something Wild
as Mary Ann Robinson
1961
6.2
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
Bridge to the Sun
as Gwen Terasaki
1961
6.8
The Miracle
as Teresa
1959
6.7
But Not for Me
as Ellie Brown / Borden
1959
6.0
The Big Country
as Patricia Terrill
1958
7.6
Fun in the Big Country
as Self
1958
0.0
Baby Doll
as Baby Doll Meighan
1956
7.1
Giant
as Luz Benedict II
1956
7.6
New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
as Self
1956
6.0
Cinépanorama
as Self
1956
8.0
Easy to Love
as Clarice
1953
6.1
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
1950
6.9