Carroll Baker

About Carroll Baker

Actress who starred in the films The Carpetbaggers, Harlow, and Sylvia in the 1960s. For her work in the 1956 film Baby Doll, she won a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer.

Carroll Baker is a retired American actress of film, stage, and television. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Baker's range of roles from young ingénues to brash and flamboyant women established her as both a pin-up and serious dramatic actress. 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. Her role in the film as a coquettish but sexually naïve Southern bride earned her BAFTA and Oscar nominations for Best Actress, as well as a Golden Globe award for Most Promising Newcomer that year. Her other early film roles included George Stevens' Giant, playing the love interest of James Dean, and in the romantic comedy But Not for Me. In 1961, Baker appeared in the controversial independent film Something Wild, directed by her then-husband Jack Garfein, playing a traumatized rape victim.

Years active	1952–2003
Occupation	Actress, writer
Notable work	Baby Doll (1956), Giant (1956), The Big Country (1958), Something Wild (1961), How the West Was Won (1962), The Carpetbaggers (1964), Harlow (1965), Native Son (1986), Kindergarten Cop (1990)
Nationality	American
Children	Blanche Baker, Herschel Garfein
Born	May 28, 1931, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, U.S.

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Trivia

Later in her career, she had supporting roles in the films Kindergarten Cop (1990) and The Game (1997).

Carroll Baker before fame

She worked as an assistant to a magician.

Achievement of Carroll Baker

She had supporting roles in the films Kindergarten Cop (1990) and The Game later in her career (1997).

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

$4 Million

Carroll Baker family life

She had been married and divorced twice before marrying Donald Burton for twenty-nine years. Jack Garfein was her second spouse.

Associations of Carroll Baker

In the picture Giant, she co-starred alongside Elizabeth Taylor.

Carroll Baker Height, Weight & Physique Measurements

Weight	in kg - N/A
Height	165 cm
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