Pruitt Taylor Vince
Born	(1960-07-05) July 5, 1960 (age 51) Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
Spouse	Julianne Mattelig

Pruitt Taylor Vince (born July 5, 1960) is an American award-winning character actor who has made many appearances in film and television.

Personal life[link]

Vince was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He attended Louisiana State University^[1] and began acting due to a mistake; a computer error in his high school registration scheduled him in an acting class, a subject which Vince has never left.

Divorced from his first marriage, Vince remarried in 2003 to Julianne Mattelig. He has pathologic nystagmus, a condition which causes a person's eyes to move involuntarily.

Career[link]

Vince made his film debut in Jim Jarmusch's Down by Law, but his scenes wound up on the cutting room floor. He had prominent supporting roles in a number of major films, including a turn as a dimwitted Ku Klux Klan member in Mississippi Burning, Lee Bowers in JFK, and the main character's best friend in Nobody's Fool. He also starred in Giuseppe Tornatore's The Legend of 1900 alongside Tim Roth. He had his first lead role in James Mangold's independent film Heavy, playing a sweet, silent overweight cook harboring a crush on a waitress (Liv Tyler).

Vince often alternates roles of both heroic and villainous characters, like a lovable small town pub owner in Beautiful Girls, a serial killer with multiple personalities in Identity (a second collaboration with director Mangold), the disheveled gossip columnist in s1mone, and a pompous sheriff in Nurse Betty. He can also be seen in Love from Ground Zero as Walter. Vince also played a Southern cop in Angel Heart, a kidnapper's assistant in Trapped, and a deputy prison warden in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers.

Vince received an Emmy Award in 1997 for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his role as serial killer Clifford Banks during the second season of the television series Murder One.^[2] More recently he appeared in the movie Constantine. Other film titles include the neo-noir China Moon and the psychological horror film Jacob's Ladder.

Guest appearances on TV shows include Deadwood, Alias, The X-Files, Miami Vice, Quantum Leap, Chicago Hope, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Highlander: The Series, and the American remake of Touching Evil. In 2011 he appeared as Otis in the AMC television series The Walking Dead. He also had a guest role playing a 600-lb. patient in Fox's medical drama House. In 2010–2011 Pruitt Taylor Vince had a multi-episode appearance in The Mentalist. In 2012, he appeared in a full episode of Justified.^[3] He shows great comedic talent as "Jelly" in Flypaper.

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Pruitt Taylor Vince at the Internet Movie Database

Liv Tyler
Tyler at The Incredible Hulk premiere, June 2008
Born	Liv Rundgren (1977-07-01) July 1, 1977 (age 34) New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1994–present
Spouse	Royston Langdon (2003–2008; 1 child)
Children	Milo William Langdon
Parents	Steven Tyler (father) Bebe Buell (mother)

Liv Rundgren Tyler^[1] (born July 1, 1977) is an American actress and model. She is the daughter of Aerosmith's lead singer, Steven Tyler, and Bebe Buell, model and singer. Tyler began a career in modeling at the age of 14, but after less than a year she decided to focus on acting. She made her film debut in the 1994 film Silent Fall. She then appeared in supporting roles in Empire Records (1995), Heavy (1996) and That Thing You Do! (1996). Tyler later achieved critical recognition in the leading role in Stealing Beauty (1996). She followed this by starring in supporting roles including Inventing the Abbotts (1997) and Cookie's Fortune (1999).

Tyler achieved international recognition as a result of her portrayal of Elf maiden Arwen Undómiel in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy. She has appeared in an eclectic range of films, including the 2004 comedy Jersey Girl, the indie film Lonesome Jim (2005), the drama Reign Over Me (2007) and big-budget studio films such as Armageddon (1998), The Strangers (2008) and The Incredible Hulk (2008).

Tyler has served as a United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Goodwill Ambassador for the United States since 2003, and as a spokesperson for Givenchy's line of perfume and cosmetics.

Early life[link]

Tyler was born Liv Rundgren^[1] at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.^[2] She is the first-born daughter of Bebe Buell, a model, singer, and former Playboy Playmate (Miss November 1974), and Steven Tyler, the lead singer of Aerosmith.^[3] Her mother named her after Norwegian actress, Liv Ullmann, after seeing Ullmann on the cover of the March 5, 1977 issue of TV Guide.^[2][4] She is of Italian, German, Cherokee, and Russian ancestry on her father's side, and her mother is German-American ^[5] Tyler has three half-siblings: Mia Tyler (born 1978),^[6] Chelsea Anna Tallarico (born 1989), and Taj Monroe Tallarico (born 1992).^[7] Her maternal grandmother, Dorothea Johnson, founded the Protocol School of Washington.^[8]

At Liv's birth, Buell claimed that rock star, Todd Rundgren, with whom Buell had been living since 1972, was Tyler's biological father.^[1] At age eight Tyler discovered that she was Steven Tyler's daughter after meeting him and noticing a resemblance she shared with his other daughter, Mia.^[1][4][9] When she asked her mother about the similarity, the secret was revealed.^[1][9] The truth about Tyler's paternity did not become public until five years later in 1991, when she changed her name from Rundgren to Tyler, but kept the former as a middle name.^[1][3] Buell's stated reason for the initial decision was that Steven was too heavily addicted to drugs at the time of her birth.^[3] Since learning the truth about her paternity, Liv and Steven have developed a close relationship.^[1] They also have worked together professionally, once when she appeared in Aerosmith's music video for "Crazy" in 1993, and again when Aerosmith performed many of the songs in the film Armageddon (1998) in which Liv Tyler starred.^[1]

Tyler attended the Congressional Schools of Virginia, Breakwater School and Waynflete School in Portland, Maine,^[10][11][12] before returning to New York City with her mother at age 12.^[1][4] She went to York Preparatory in New York City for junior high and high school after her mother researched the school to accommodate Tyler's ADHD.^[13] She graduated in 1995, and left to continue her acting career.^[1][4] When asked about the way she spent her early life, Tyler said: "For me, I didn’t get much of a childhood in my teen years because I’ve been working since I was 14. But that also kept me out of trouble. When everybody was doing acid and partying like crazy, I was at work on a movie in Tuscany ... having my own fun, of course, but it was a different kind of thing. I have no regrets. I love the way my life has gone."^[14]

Career[link]

Early work[link]

Tyler received her first modeling job at age 14 with the assistance of Paulina Porizkova who took photos of her that ended up in Interview magazine.^[1][4] She later starred in television commercials.^[1][4] She, however, became bored with her modeling career less than a year after it started, and decided to go into acting, although^[4] she never took acting lessons.^[3] Tyler first became known to television audiences when she starred alongside Alicia Silverstone in the music video for Aerosmith's 1993 song "Crazy".^[1]

Tyler made her feature film debut in Silent Fall in 1994, where she played the older sister of an autistic boy.^[15] In 1995, she starred in the comedy drama Empire Records.^[16] Tyler has described Empire Records as "one of the best experiences" she has ever had.^[17] Soon after, she landed a supporting role in James Mangold's 1996 drama Heavy as Callie, a naive young waitress. The film received favorable reviews;^[18] critic Janet Maslin noted: "Ms. Tyler ... gives a charmingly ingenuous performance, betraying no self-consciousness about her lush good looks."^[19]

Popular success[link]

Tyler had her breakthrough role in Stealing Beauty (1996), in which she played Lucy Harmon, an innocent, romantic teenager who travels to Italy intent on losing her virginity. The film received generally mixed reviews,^[20] but Tyler's performance was favored by the critics; Variety wrote: "Tyler is the perfect accomplice. At times sweetly awkward, at others composed and serene, the actress appears to respond effortlessly and intuitively to the camera, creating a rich sense of what Lucy is about that often is not explicit in the dialogue."^[21] Empire noted, "Liv Tyler (here radiantly resembling a ganglier young Ava Gardner) with a rare opportunity to enamour, a break she capitalizes on with composure."^[22] The film was directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, who chose Tyler for the role after meeting with a number of young girls in Los Angeles, including Tyler's music video co-star Alicia Silverstone. Bertolucci claimed "there was something missing in all of them".^[23] He later admitted that what he saw in Tyler was a gravitas he described as "a New York aura".^[23] During promotion of the film, Tyler admitted she wanted to separate herself from the character during production; "I tried my damnedest not to think of my own situation. But at one point, after a take, I just started to cry and cry. I remembered when I found out about my dad and how we just stared at each other from head to toe taking in every nook and cranny."^[23]

Tyler at the premiere of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2003

She later appeared in That Thing You Do! (1996), a movie about a fictional one-hit wonder rock band called The Oneders, following their whirlwind rise to the top of the pop charts, and just as quickly, their plunge back to obscurity.^[24] The film was written and directed by Tom Hanks.^[25] It grossed over $25 million worldwide,^[26] and was met with favorable reviews.^[27] The following year, she appeared in Inventing the Abbotts in 1997, in which she played the daughter of Will Patton and Barbara Williams' characters.^[28] The movie is based on a short story by Sue Miller.^[29] Entertainment Weekly declared Tyler's performance as "lovely and pliant".^[30] That same year, Tyler was chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People.^[31]

Tyler next appeared in Armageddon (1998), where she played the daughter of Bruce Willis' character and love interest of Ben Affleck's character. The film generated mixed reviews,^[32] but was a box office success earning $553 million worldwide.^[26] The movie included the songs "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" and "What Kind of Love Are You On" by Aerosmith.^[33] In a 2001 interview with The Guardian, she admitted that she turned down the role in Armageddon; "I really didn't want to do it at first and I turned it down a couple of times, but the biggest reason I changed my mind was because I was scared of it. I wanted to try it for that very reason. I mean, I'm not really in this to do amazing things in my career - I just want it to be special when I make a movie."^[11]

She was then cast in the drama Onegin (1999), a film based on the 19th century Russian novel of the same name by Alexander Pushkin, in which she portrayed Tatyana Larina and co-starred with Ralph Fiennes.^[34] Tyler was required to master an English accent, though Stephen Holden of the New York Times felt that her approximation of an English accent was "inert".^[35] The film was critically and financially unsuccessful.^[26][36] That same year, she appeared in the historical comedy film Plunkett & Macleane.^[37][38]

She later appeared in two films directed by Robert Altman, Cookie's Fortune (1999) and Dr. T & the Women (2000).^[1][34] In Cookie's Fortune, she was part of an ensemble cast that included Glenn Close, Julianne Moore, Chris O'Donnell, and Patricia Neal.^[39] Her performance well received among critics; Salon.com wrote: "This is the first time in which Tyler's acting is a match for her beauty (she's always been a bit forlorn). Altman helps her find some snap, but a relaxed, silly snap, as in the cartoon sound she makes when she takes a midday swig of bourbon. The lazy geniality of the movie is summed up by the way Emma [Tyler's character] saunters off to take a swim with her cowboy hat and pint of Wild Turkey."^[40] Entertainment Weekly also noted that Tyler is "sweetly gruff as the tomboy troublemaker".^[41] In the romantic comedy, Dr. T & the Women, she played Marilyn, a gynecological patient of Richard Gere's character, who is the lesbian lover of his daughter, played by Kate Hudson.^[42]

From 2001[link]

In 2001, Tyler played the object of infatuation for three men (Matt Dillon, John Goodman and Paul Reiser) in the black comedy One Night at McCool's.^[43] In discussion of the role, she said: "This was definitely the first part where I had to be so physically aware and have people so aware of me physically. Maybe it's not hard for anybody else, but it is a bit for me. I mean I love my body and I feel very comfortable in my skin, but this was tough."^[44] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone wrote: "Tyler, a true beauty, gives the role a valiant try, but her range is too limited to play this amalgam of female perfection."^[45]

In 2001, she starred in the feature film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, directed by Peter Jackson. She played the Elf maiden Arwen Undómiel.^[44][46] The film is based on the first volume of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. The filmmakers approached Tyler after seeing her performance in Plunkett & Macleane.^[47] She learned to speak the fictitious Elvish language that was created by Tolkien.^[48] Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle noted that Tyler's performance was "lovely and earnest".^[49]

Tyler and co-star Sean Astin at the premiere of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2003

A year later, Tyler again starred as Arwen in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the second installment of the series. The film received favorable reviews.^[50] Tyler spent months before filming learning swordfighting, to be used during the concluding battle scenes in The Two Towers,^[51] though her scenes from the battle were removed after the script was changed.^[51] The film was an enormous box office success, earning over $926 million worldwide,^[52] out-grossing its predecessor, which earned over $871 million.^[26] In 2003, Tyler featured in the third and last installment of the series, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.^[53]

Following the success of The Lord of the Rings, she appeared opposite her Armageddon co-star Ben Affleck in writer-director Kevin Smith's romantic comedy Jersey Girl (2004), playing a woman who re-opens a widowed father's heart to love, played by Affleck.^[54] In an interview with MTV News, Tyler confessed that she felt "scared and vulnerable" while filming Jersey Girl, adding "I was so used to those other elements of the character [Arwen]. On The Lord of the Rings, a lot of things were done in post-production, whereas this was really just about me and Ben sitting there, just shooting off dialogue."^[55] However, she reiterated that doing Jersey Girl was what she wanted to do.^[55]

In 2005, she appeared in Steve Buscemi's independent drama Lonesome Jim, where she was cast alongside Casey Affleck, as a single mother and nurse who reconnects with an old fling who has returned to their small town of Indiana after a failed run as a novelist in New York.^[55] The film was screened at a special presentation at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival where it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize.^[56] Tyler's next appearance in film was in a supporting role as an insightful therapist who tries to help a once-successful dentist (Adam Sandler) cope with the loss of his family during the events of the September 11th attacks in Reign Over Me (2007).^[57][58]

In 2008, she starred in the horror-thriller The Strangers with Scott Speedman, a film about a young couple who are terrorized one night by three masked assailants in their remote country house.^[59][60] Although the film garnered a mixed reception among critics,^[61] it was a box office success.^[26] In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, she noted that The Strangers was the most challenging role of her career. "It was as far as I could push myself in every way: physically, emotionally, mentally."^[17]

She appeared in The Incredible Hulk (2008), in which she played Dr. Betty Ross, the love interest of the title character, played by Edward Norton.^[62] Tyler was attracted to the love story in the script, and was a fan of the television show.^[63] She said filming the part was "very physical, which was fun",^[64] and compared her performance to "a deer caught in the headlights".^[65] The Incredible Hulk was a box office success, earning over $262 million worldwide.^[26] The Washington Post, in review of the film, wrote: "Tyler gives Betty an appropriately angelic nimbus of ethereal gentleness as the one Beauty who can tame the Beast ... during their most pivotal encounters."^[66]

Tyler is appearing in two films released in 2011: Super and The Ledge. In April 2011, publishing house Rodale announced that Tyler and her grandmother Dorothea Johnson, a noted etiquette expert, have written a book called "Modern Manners." Rodale plans to release the book in May 2012.^[67]

Personal life[link]

Tyler dated actor Joaquin Phoenix for three years.^[68] In 1998, Tyler began dating British musician Royston Langdon of the band Spacehog.^[1] She and Langdon became engaged in February 2001,^[69] and married in Barbados on March 25, 2003.^[70] On December 14, 2004, she gave birth to a son, Milo William Langdon.^[71] On May 8, 2008, the couple confirmed through representatives that they would be separating but remain friends.^[72] In an interview with the Australian Daily Telegraph, Tyler revealed that her separation from Langdon led her to move to Los Angeles, explaining that it was hard to be in the Manhattan home that they had shared.^[73] In June 2010, Tyler stated she was "far too sensitive" for casual dates, adding "I fall in love once in a blue moon."^[74]

Tyler is an active supporter of the charitable United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). She was appointed as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United States in 2003.^[75][76] In November 2004, she hosted the lighting of the UNICEF Snowflake in New York City.^[76] Tyler also served as spokesperson for the 2004 Givenchy Mother's Day promotion, in support of UNICEF's Maternal & Neonatal Tetanus (MNT) campaign.^[76]

Since 2004, she has donated to the Women's Cancer Research Fund to support innovative research, education, and outreach directed at the development of more effective approaches to the early diagnosis, treatment and prevention of all women's cancers.^[77] In October 2007, Tyler, along with her mother, Bebe Buell and her grandmother, Dorothea Johnson, helped launch the Emergen-C Pink energy drink, in which the event was in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month.^[78]

She is good friends with designer Stella McCartney,^[6] model Helena Christensen and actresses Kate Hudson, Chloe Sevigny and Gwyneth Paltrow.^[6][17] Tyler was formerly a vegan, but has since begun to eat meat.^[79] In 2003, she became the spokesperson for Givenchy perfume and cosmetics;^[80][81] in 2005 the brand named a rose after her, which was used in one of its fragrances.^[82] In 2009, Tyler signed on for two more years as Givenchy spokesperson.^[73] On December 8 2011, Givenchy announced a collaboration between Givenchy perfumes and Sony Music^[83]. In the video released on February 7, 2012, Liv Tyler covered INXS song "Need You Tonight"^[84].

Filmography[link]

Discography[link]

Singles[link]

• 2012: "Need You Tonight" (Music Of Very Irresistible Givenchy Electric Rose) INXS cover

References[link]

Further reading[link]

• Buell, Bebe; Bockris, Victor (2002). Rebel Heart: An American Rock 'n Roll Journey. St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 978-0-312-30155-2 
• Sibley, Brian (2006). Peter Jackson: A Film-maker's Journey. Harpercollins. ISBN 0-00-717558-2 
• Corliss, Richard. "One life to Liv -- But can she act?." Time. June 17, 1996. Accessed January 8, 2009.
• Fischer, Paul. "The Liv Factor." Girl.com. 2001. Accessed January 8, 2009.
• Mottram, James. "BBC Movies - Liv Tyler interview." BBC Films. December 5, 2001. Accessed January 6, 2009.
• Mzimba, Lizo. "Liv Tyler on Two Towers: full interview." BBC News. December 10, 2002. Accessed January 7, 2009.
• Head, Steve. "IGN: An Interview with Liv Tyler". IGN Movies. December 16, 2002. Accessed January 12, 2009.
• Otto, Jeff. "IGN: An Interview with Orlando Bloom and Liv Tyler." IGN Movies. December 17, 2003. Accessed January 8, 2009.
• Fischer, Paul. "Exclusive Liv Tyler Interview." Girl.com. 2003. Accessed January 8, 2009.
• Cole, Bethan. "Cover story: Liv a little." The Times. February 29, 2004. Accessed January 13, 2009.
• Head, Steve. "IGN: An Interview with Liv Tyler - Bringing it on home for Jersey Girl." IGN Movies. April 2, 2004. Accessed January 19, 2009.
• Collura, Scott. "IGN: Liv Tyler Talks The Hobbit." IGN Movies. May 20, 2008. Accessed January 13, 2009.
• Barnard, Linda. "It's a scream." Toronto Star. May 31, 2008. Accessed January 9, 2009.
• Palmer, Alun. "Interview: Liv Tyler on her son, work and marriage break up." Daily Mirror. June 12, 2008. Accessed January 7, 2009.
• Thompson, B. "Interview: Liv Tyler." Montreal Gazette. June 12, 2008. Accessed January 7, 2009.

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Liv Tyler

• Liv Tyler at the Internet Movie Database
• Liv Tyler at Yahoo! Movies
• Liv Tyler at People.com

Simon Baker
Baker on the set of The Mentalist
Born	Simon Baker (1969-07-30) 30 July 1969 (age 42) Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1987–present
Spouse	Rebecca Rigg (1998–present; 3 children)

Simon Baker (born 30 July 1969) is an Australian actor and director. Since 2008, he has starred as the lead role in the CBS television series The Mentalist as Patrick Jane.

Early life[link]

Simon Baker was born to a high-school English teacher, Elizabeth Labberton, and a groundskeeper/mechanic, Barry Baker, on 30 July 1969, in Launceston, Tasmania. He was raised as a Roman Catholic.^[1] His parents divorced while he was still young. His mother later married Tom Denny, a butcher. Simon Baker also has a sister, currently a doctor in Australia, and three younger half brothers. By 1972, they had moved from Launceston to Ballina, New South Wales, hoping to secure better paying jobs. In 1986, he graduated from Ballina High School as Simon Baker-Denny, after completing his primary school education at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Primary School, also in Ballina.

Acting career[link]

Baker began acting on Australian television during the late 1980s using the name "Simon Denny". He first appeared in music video clips for Melissa Tkautz ("Read My Lips") and Australian dance outfit Euphoria ("Love You Right") in 1991 before appearing in the successful series E Street, Home and Away and Heartbreak High. As "Simon Baker Denny" he was a co-star of the David Croft/Jeremy Lloyd sitcom pilot, Which Way to the War, which was not developed into a series.

In 1995, he was in an episode of the ABC TV series Naked (episode title: Blindside Breakaway) in the role of a rugby player. His character was an easy going mummy's boy until he met a girl who challenged his safe existence. He called the role "physically demanding" due to the fact most of the extras were actual rugby players.^[2]

At the time (1995) he referred to this role as an important opportunity as well as being "the best job I've had in my life". He went on to say it was going to be hard afterwards to want to do anything offered.^[2]

He relocated to the United States, where he was cast in a small part in L.A. Confidential, which led to further opportunities in supporting roles in films. In 1998 he starred in a small, independent film by filmmaker Stephen Grynberg titled "Love from Ground Zero", and in 1999 appeared in Ang Lee's Ride with the Devil. In 2000, he played Michael Scott in Adam Collis's Sunset Strip. He also played an astronaut in Red Planet with Val Kilmer, Carrie Anne Moss and Benjamin Bratt. He played the male lead in the television series The Guardian for three seasons beginning in 2001, and also appeared in The Affair of the Necklace. He played a distressed husband in 2004's Book of Love. In 2005, he starred as an altruistic hero in George A. Romero's Land of the Dead.

In 2006, he played Brian Kelly in the film Something New, writer Christian Thompson in The Devil Wears Prada, and had a leading role as Jeff in the short-lived television series Smith. In 2007, he was cast as Roderick Blank in Sex and Death 101.

In 2008, Baker received the lead role of Patrick Jane, a consultant to the California Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in CBS's The Mentalist. In 2009, Baker was nominated for an Emmy Award for The Mentalist. In late 2009, Baker was also nominated for his second Golden Globe Award (for The Mentalist) and his first SAG Award for his work. He played Howard Hendricks in The Killer Inside Me, which starred Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba and Bill Pullman.^[3]

Other activities[link]

On 6 June 2010, he played in a charity soccer match for The Rest of The World team versus England on ITV's Soccer Aid 2010,^[4] coming on as a substitute in the second half. The match went to a penalty shootout; Baker took a penalty which was saved by England celebrity goalkeeper, Jamie Theakston. The Rest of the World went on to win the shoot out and the match for the first time since the tournament started.

Personal life[link]

In 1998, Baker married Australian actress Rebecca Rigg. They have three children: Stella Breeze (born 8 August 1993), Claude Blue (born 1998), and Harry Friday (born 19 September 2001). Fellow Australian, actress Nicole Kidman, is godmother to Harry while actress Naomi Watts is godmother to Claude.^[5] Baker and his family resided in Malibu, California, before moving back to Sydney, and then returned to Los Angeles to appear on Smith, and later on The Mentalist.

In January 2009, Baker told Parade Magazine that he and his wife were interested in becoming American citizens.^[5] Baker is a dual U.S./Australian citizen since 2010.^[6]

Baker and his sons are fans of the Parramatta Eels in the Australian NRL.^[7] His name first appeared in Who's Who in Australia in 2011.^[8]

Filmography[link]

Awards and nominations[link]

Australian Film Institute Awards

• 2000: Nominated, "Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Telefeature or Mini-Series" – Secret Men's Business

People's Choice Award

• 2009: Won with complete cast "Best new series" – The Mentalist season 1

Emmy Awards

• 2009: Nominated, "Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series" – The Mentalist season 1

Family Television Awards

• 2002: Won, "Best Actor" – The Guardian

Golden Globe Awards

• 2002: Nominated, "Best Performance by an Actor in a Dramatic Television Series" – The Guardian
• 2009: Nominated, "Best Performance by an Actor in a Dramatic Television Series" – The Mentalist season 2

Screen Actors Guild Awards

• 2010: Nominated, "Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series" – The Mentalist season 2

Logie Awards

• 1993: Won, "Most Popular New Talent" – E Street
• 2004: Nominated, "Most Popular Overseas Star"

Prism Awards

• 2005: Nominated, "Best Performance in a Drama Series Storyline" – The Guardian

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Simon Baker

• Simon Baker at AllRovi
• Simon Baker at the Internet Movie Database
• Simon Baker at TV Guide
• Simon Baker Australian Film Commission
• Simon Baker interview The Guardian Femail Magazine
• Simon Baker The Guardian The Age
• Simon Baker interview Land of the Dead Femail Magazine