Kathy Baker Movies and Career Information

Katherine Whitton "Kathy" Baker (born June 8, 1950) is an American actress. Baker has appeared in numerous films including Edward Scissorhands, The Right Stuff, Street Smart, Jacknife and Cold Mountain. As a small-town doctor in the David E. Kelley television series Picket Fences she won Emmy awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series three times in the show's four-year run (1993, 1995 and 1996). Years later she again teamed up with David E. Kelley and starred in another of his shows Boston Public as a teacher named Meredith Peters, whose personality and behavior is a little questionable. Baker began her career at San Francisco's Magic Theatre, performing in several of Sam Shepard's plays before getting her break in an off-Broadway production of Fool for Love opposite Ed Harris. Her recent projects include the 2006 remake of All the King's Men and 2007's The Jane Austen Book Club. She guest-starred in the premiere episode of the eighth season of Law and Order: Criminal Intent, playing the role of an ambitious mother of a city politician with a dark family secret. She also has a recurring role in Medium as Allison DuBois's mother-in-law. Baker was born in Midland, Texas,