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Katherine Whitton "Kathy" Baker (born June 8, 1950) is an American stage, film and television actress.
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 All the King's Men (2006) and The Jane Austen Book Club (2007).
She has appeared in numerous films including Edward Scissorhands (Joyce Monroe), 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).
Baker later re-teamed with Kelley, appearing in Boston Public as a teacher named Meredith Peters. Baker 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 had a recurring role in Medium as Allison DuBois's mother-in-law, and another one in Tom Selleck's periodic Jesse Stone crime dramas as Rose, a small-town police officer.
Actors: Zarina Wahab (actress), Karan Johar (director), Douglas Tait (actor), Waymond Lee (actor), Ehsaan Noorani (composer), Loy Mendonsa (composer), Jim Gaines (actor), Vinay Pathak (actor), Shah Rukh Khan (actor), Don Abernathy (actor), Jimmy Shergill (actor), Shankar Mahadevan (composer), Greg Collins (actor), Himanshu Nanda (miscellaneous crew), Maxine Brooks (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Rizwan Khan, a Muslim from the Borivali section of Mumbai, suffers from Asperger's syndrome, a form of high-functioning autism that complicates socialization. The adult Rizwan marries a Hindu single mother, Mandira, in San Francisco. After 9/11, Rizwan is detained by authorities at LAX who mistake his disability for suspicious behavior. Following his arrest, he meets Radha, a therapist who helps him deal with his situation and his affliction. Rizwan then begins a journey to meet US President Bush to clear his name.
Keywords: anti-muslim, anti-terrorism, asperger's-syndrome, autism, based-on-true-story, character-name-in-title, muslim, prejudice, racial-profiling, road-tripActors: Barry Primus (actor), David E. Kelley (actor), Lou Antonio (actor), Stephen Tobolowsky (actor), Kathy Baker (actress), John H. Tobin (miscellaneous crew), Natalija Nogulich (actress), Hector Elizondo (actor), Ken Lerner (actor), Mandy Patinkin (actor), Lanre Idewu (actor), Paul Tuerpe (miscellaneous crew), Alan Rosenberg (actor), Michael Pressman (actor), Michael Pressman (writer),
Plot: Television director/producer Michael Pressman mounts a production of Frankie and Johnny in the Clare de Lune starring his wife, Lisa Chess. But their attempts to stage the play and work on their marriage keep running afoul, and everything's threatened by their difficult male lead, Alan Rosenberg. Michael's best hope, as a husband and producer, is to step into the character that Alan has abandoned.
Keywords: actor, actor-director-writer, actor-playing-himself, actress, actress-playing-herself, based-on-true-story, bedroom, casting, competition, coworker-relationshipActors: Mark Rolston (actor), Titos Vandis (actor), Alkis Panagiotidis (actor), Dimitris Poulikakos (actor), Yanis Alexandridis (actor), Paul Maxwell (actor), Matt Frewer (actor), Gertan Klauber (actor), Mihalis Giannatos (actor), Jason Connery (actor), Ed Bishop (actor), Bruce Boa (actor), Thodoros Exarhos (actor), Shannon Tweed (actress), Nikos Vandoros (actor),
Plot: This movie describes the founding of the modern Olympics and concentrates on the creation of the American team and their trials in getting to the Olympics in Athens.
Keywords: 1890s, accident, acropolis, american-flag, athens-greece, athlete, athletic-trainer, band, bandleader, bare-buttActors: Dennis Haysbert (actor), Laurene Landon (actress), Fred Halsted (actor), Michael A. DeGaetano (writer), Michael A. DeGaetano (producer), Greg Martin (miscellaneous crew), Michael A. DeGaetano (director), Peter Maravich (actor), Joseph Hardin (actor), Paunita Nichols (actress), Myra Taylor (actress), Gregg Perrie (actor), William W. Gillett Jr. (producer), William W. Gillett Jr. (actor), Dick Plautz (producer),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Herschell Gordon Lewis (actor), Herschell Gordon Lewis (director), Herschell Gordon Lewis (producer), Ray Sager (actor), Allison Louise Downe (writer), Barbara Kerwin (actress), J.G. Patterson Jr. (producer), Larry Wellington (composer), Chris Martell (actor), Andrea Barr (actress), Fred M. Sandy (producer), Elizabeth Davis (actress), Kim Kerwin (actress), Karl Stoeber (actor), Rodney Bedell (actor),
Plot: Mrs. Pringle and her son Rodney run a wig store which they stock by scalping young coeds who show up to look at the "room for rent." Meanwhile at the local college, Kathy is determined to figure out who is killing her classmates, much to boyfriend Dave's irritation. When her friend Dawn disappears, Kathy gets closer to the truth as she begins investigating the Pringle's lair.
Keywords: b-movie, blood, bloodbath, bodily-dismemberment, brutality, cruelty, cult-director, cult-film, curiosity, disembowelmentActors: Patrick O'Neal (actor), Karl Swenson (actor), Mark Miller (actor), Byron Sanders (actor), Mary Fickett (actress), Teri Keane (actress), Sally Gracie (actress), Renne Jarrett (actress), Eda Heinemann (actress), Fran Carlon (actress), Richard Kendrick (actor), Ginger McManus (actress), Elizabeth York (actress),
Genres: Drama,