Biography
Carroll Baker is a retired American 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 a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
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Awards & recognition
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame · 1960
- Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year · 1957
- Golden Globe Awards
- Academy Award — Best Actress · 1957 · nominated
Filmography40 titles
On Fire
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Tales from the Crypt
Roswell
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
The Game
The Big Country
Giant
Murder, She Wrote
L.A. Law
How the West Was Won
Baby Doll
What's My Line?
Thriller
Bridge to the Sun
Cheyenne Autumn
A Quiet Place to Kill
Star 80
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Ironweed
Sylvia
Something Wild
Kindergarten Cop
Knife of Ice
Easy to Love
The Fourth Victim
Paranoia
The Carpetbaggers
So Sweet... So Perverse
Harlow
Baba Yaga
Hollywood Uncensored
Cyclone
Charlton Heston: For All Seasons
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
Blonde Fist
The Sky is Falling
Captain Apache
A Kiss to Die For
Another Woman's Husband