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Kathy Baker

Born 1950 · American actress

Katherine Whitton Baker is an American actress. Baker began her career in theater and made her screen debut in the 1983 drama film The Right Stuff. She received the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress and an Independent Spirit Award nomination for her performance in Street Smart (1987). Baker also has appeared in over 50 films, including Jacknife (1989), Edward Scissorhands (1990), The Cider House Rules (1999), Cold Mountain (2003), Nine Lives (2005), The Jane Austen Book Club (2007), Last Chance Harvey (2008), Take Shelter (2011), Saving Mr. Banks (2013), and The Age of Adaline (2015).

Kathy Baker, in order

  1. 1983 The Right Stuff: acted · directed by Philip Kaufman · critics 96%, audiences 90%
  2. 1986 A Killing Affair: acted · directed by David Saperstein
  3. 1987 Street Smart: acted · directed by Jerry Schatzberg
  4. 1988 Clean and Sober: acted · directed by Glenn Gordon Caron · critics 61%, audiences 61%
  5. 1989 Dad: acted · directed by Gary David Goldberg
  6. 1989 Jacknife: acted · directed by David Hugh Jones
  7. 1990 Edward Scissorhands: acted · directed by Tim Burton · critics 93%, audiences 91% · streaming on Disney+, Hulu, fuboTV
  8. 1990 Mister Frost: acted · directed by Philippe Setbon
  9. 1992 Article 99: acted · directed by Howard Deutch
  10. 1992 Jennifer 8: acted · directed by Bruce Robinson
  11. 1992 Picket Fences (TV series): acted
  12. 1993 Mad Dog and Glory: acted · directed by John McNaughton · critics 80%, audiences 45%
  13. 1996 To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday: acted · directed by Michael Pressman · critics 17%, audiences 41%
  14. 1997 Ally McBeal (TV series): acted · critics 61%, audiences 78% · streaming on Hulu
  15. 1997 Inventing the Abbotts: acted · directed by Pat O'Connor · critics 44%, audiences 51% · streaming on Hoopla
  16. 1997 Weapons of Mass Distraction (TV movie): acted · directed by Stephen Surjik
  17. 1999 A.T.F. (TV movie): acted · directed by Dean Parisot
  18. 1999 Me and Dad: acted · directed by Kara Harshbarger
  19. 1999 The Cider House Rules: acted · directed by Lasse Hallström
  20. 2000 Boston Public (TV series): acted
  21. 2000 Gilmore Girls (TV series): acted · audiences 87% · streaming on Prime Video, Hulu
  22. 2000 Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her: acted · directed by Rodrigo García Márquez · critics 79%, audiences 64% · streaming on Roku Channel, YouTube (free), Tubi
  23. 2001 Sanctuary (TV movie): acted · directed by Katt Shea
  24. 2001 The Glass House: acted · directed by Daniel Sackheim
  25. 2002 Assassination Tango: acted · directed by Robert Duvall
  26. 2003 Cold Mountain: acted · directed by Anthony Minghella · critics 70%, audiences 77% · streaming on fuboTV, Paramount+, Kanopy
  27. 2004 13 Going on 30: acted · directed by Gary Winick · critics 65%, audiences 71% · streaming on Paramount+, Kanopy, Hoopla
  28. 2005 Criminal Minds (TV series): acted · audiences 82% · streaming on Paramount+, Hulu, Philo
  29. 2005 Nine Lives: acted · directed by Rodrigo García Márquez · streaming on Tubi
  30. 2006 All the King's Men: acted · directed by Steven Zaillian
  31. 2007 Private Practice (TV series): acted
  32. 2007 The Jane Austen Book Club: acted · directed by Robin Swicord
  33. 2008 Last Chance Harvey: acted · directed by Joel Hopkins
  34. 2008 Shades of Ray: acted · directed by Jaffar Mahmood
  35. 2010 Miss Nobody: acted · directed by Tim Cox
  36. 2011 Machine Gun Preacher: acted · directed by Marc Forster
  37. 2011 Seven Days in Utopia: acted · directed by Matthew Dean Russell
  38. 2011 Take Shelter: acted · directed by Jeff Nichols · critics 92%, audiences 80% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, Tubi
  39. 2011 Too Big to Fail (TV movie): acted · directed by Curtis Hanson
  40. 2012 Big Miracle: acted · directed by Ken Kwapis
  41. 2012 Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt (TV movie): acted · directed by Robert Harmon
  42. 2013 Saving Mr. Banks: acted · directed by John Lee Hancock · critics 79%, audiences 84% · streaming on Disney+
  43. 2013 The Trials of Cate McCall: acted · directed by Karen Moncrieff
  44. 2014 Boulevard: acted · directed by Dito Montiel
  45. 2014 Return to Zero (TV movie): acted · directed by Sean Hanish
  46. 2015 The Age of Adaline: acted · directed by Lee Toland Krieger · critics 54%, audiences 67% · streaming on HBO Max
  47. 2016 Colony (TV series): acted · directed by Juan J. Campanella
  48. 2016 Sister Cities (TV movie): acted · directed by Sean Hanish
  49. 2017 The Ballad of Lefty Brown: acted · directed by Jared Moshe
  50. 2018 Paterno (TV movie): acted · directed by Barry Levinson
  51. 2019 The Art of Racing in the Rain: acted · directed by Simon Curtis
  52. 2026 Remarkably Bright Creatures: acted · directed by Olivia Newman · critics 86%, audiences 90% · streaming on Netflix