Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
5/28/1931
Place of Birth
Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
Also Known As
Carrol BakerKarolina Piekarskiکارول بیکر
Carroll Baker
Biography
Carroll Baker (born May 28, 1931) is a former American actress who has enjoyed popularity as both a serious dramatic actress and, particularly in the 1960s, as a movie sex symbol. 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. In the mid-1960s, as a contract player for Paramount Pictures, Baker became a sex symbol after appearing as a hedonistic widow in The Carpetbaggers (1964). The fil...
Known For
The Greatest Story Ever Told
as Veronica
The Sweet Body of Deborah
as Deborah
How the West Was Won
as Eve Prescott Rawlings
Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife
as Laura
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
as Baby Doll Meighan (archive footage)
The Game
as Ilsa
Carroll Baker: Vom Baby Doll zur Lady Glamour
as Self
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
as Self
Return to 'Giant'
as Self
Cheyenne Autumn
as Deborah Wright
The Devil with Seven Faces
as Julie Harrison / Mary Harrison
Judgment Day: The John List Story
as Alma List
La signora della città
as Martha Sheppard
The Fourth Victim
as Julie Spencer / Lillian Martin
Baby Doll
as Baby Doll Meighan
The Private Lesson
as Laura Formenti
Another Woman's Husband
as Laurel’s mother
Giant
as Luz Benedict II
The Watcher in the Woods
as Helen Curtis
Captain Apache
as Maude