Kathy Baker - Celebrity - Milestones
Milestones
- 2004: Starred opposite Jennifer Garner in "13 going on 30"
- 2003: Featured in "Cold Mountain," which starred Nicole Kidman and Jude Law
- 2002: Played Gladys in the made for television movie "Door to Door"; received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Miniseries Or A Movie
- 2001: Co-starred in the thriller "The Glass House"
- 2001: Received sixth career Emmy nomination for guest role of a controling mother on Fox's "Boston Public", created by David E. Kelley; joined cast as series regular as of the 2001-2002 season
- 2000: Earned an Emmy nomination for a guest appearance on "Touched By an Angel"
- 2000: Had featured role in the Sundance-screened episodic film "Things You Can Tell Just By Looking at Her"; aired on Showtime in 2001
- 2000: Starred as a woman who employs a magic ring to make her ordinary life spectacular in the Showtime original children's movie "Ratz"
- 1999: Had featured role as one of the nurses at the orphanage in Lasse Hallstrom's adaptation "The Cider House Rules"
- 1999: Reteamed with director Michael Pressman as a single-minded social worker in the holiday drama "A Season for Miracles" (CBS)
- 1999: Starred in the ABC TV-movie "ATF" as the embattled head of the titular agency
- 1998: Starred as a survivor of the Oklahoma City bombing who struggles to deal with her life after the tragedy in Lifetime's "Oklahoma City: A Survivor's Story"
- 1998: Had a recurring role on "The Practice" (ABC) as a woman accused of murdering a baby
- 1997: Featured in the ABC anthology series "Gun"
- 1997: Starred in the fact-based TV-movie "Not in This Town" (USA Network) as a community activist working to lessen the influence of white supremecists
- 1997: Played a widowed mother of two sons in the period drama "Inventing the Abbotts"
- 1997: Featured in the HBO original TV-movie "Weapons of Mass Distraction"
- 1996: Played the sister-in-law of a man mourning his wife's death two years after in Michael Pressman's drama "To Gillian on her 37th Birthday"
- 1994: Featured in the independent drama "Lush Life", aired on Showtime
- 1993: Reteamed with De Niro in "Mad Dog and Glory"
- 1992: Was a supporting player in the comedy "Article 99" and the thriller "Jennifer 8"
- From 1992 to 1996: First role as a TV series regular, "Picket Fences" (CBS); won three Emmy Awards playing the wife of the town sheriff in this quirky drama-comedy created by David E. Kelley
- 1991: Starred in the NBC TV-movie "One Special Victory"
- 1990: Featured in the HBO original film "The Image"
- 1990: Had a memorable featured role as a flirty neighbor smitten with "Edward Scissorhands"
- 1989: Starred with Robert De Niro as a spinster schoolteacher who puts her life on hold to watch over her troubled brother (Ed Harris) in the drama feature "Jacknife"
- 1988: Co-starred with Michael Keaton as a recovering drug addict in "Clean and Sober"
- 1988: Played the mother of a suicidal teen in the moving drama "Permanent Record"
- 1987: Co-starred as a doomed prostitute in the feature "Street Smart"
- 1987: Guest starred on episodes of "Amazing Stories" (NBC) and "Mariah" (ABC)
- 1986: First feature leading role, "My Sister's Keeper"
- 1986: Had early television credit as co-star in the fact-based TV-movie "Nobody's Child" (CBS)
- 1983: Made Off-Broadway debut reprising role in "Fool For Love"
- 1983: Film acting debut in "The Right Stuff", starring Shepard and Harris
- 1982: Starred opposite Ed Harris in the San Francisco premiere of Sheperd's "Fool for Love"; credited as Kathy Whitton Baker (date approximate)
- 1977: Returned to California
- 1975: Moved to Paris to study cooking at Cordon Bleu
- 1970: Successfully auditioned for the CalArts acting program; attended for one year and subsequently dropped out
- 1960: Began acting in Albuquerque Children's Theatre at age ten (date approximate)
- Acted opposite Robert Duvall in "Assassination Tango" (lensed 2001)
- Raised in New Mexico
- Featured in the Magic Theatre production "The Man Who Killed the Buddha", where she was spotted by Sam Shepard
- While working as a pastry chef in San Francisco, auditioned at the Magic Theatre