Diane baker actress biography
Actress with a notable career in films and television.
Diane Carol Baker (born February 25, ) is an American actress, producer and educator whose career spanned over 50 years.!
Diane Baker
American actress (born )
Diane Carol Baker (born February 25, ) is an American actress, producer and educator whose career spanned over 50 years.[1]
Early life
Baker was born February 25, [2] at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California and raised in the Los Angeles neighborhoods of North Hollywood and Studio City.
She is the daughter of Dorothy Helen Harrington, who had appeared in several early Marx Brothers movies, and automobile salesman Clyde Lucius Baker. Baker has two younger sisters, Patricia and Cheryl.[3] At age 18, after graduating from Van Nuys High School in , Baker moved to New York to study acting with Charles Conrad and ballet with Nina Fonaroff.[citation needed]
Career
After securing a seven-year contract with 20th Century Fox in ,[citation needed] Baker made her film debut when she was chosen by director George Stevens to play Margot Frank in the motion pictu