Brenda Bakke

Birthplace: Klamath Falls, Oregon
Birthday: May 15, 1963

This classically attractive stage-trained performer has spent a significant portion of her film and TV career playing "bad girls" and other women of rather questionable virtue. Bakke began acting as a teen in local productions in her native Portland, OR before making the move to Los Angeles to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. After more stage work, Bakke entered films inauspiciously with a supporting role in the teen sex sequel "Hardbodies 2" (1986). This set the stage for her early feature career as she appeared a series of low-bu…more

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Actor

The Fixer
C J
Trucks
Hope
Shelter
Helena
Crimes of Passion: Edna Buchanan's "Nobody Lives Forever"
Laurel Trevelyn
Star Quest
Zinovitz

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Career Milestones

1999
Returned to series TV as the mother of a teenage undercover cop in the Fox drama "Ryan Caulfield: Year One"
1997
Played Lana Turner in the highly-praised film "L.A. Confidential"
1995
Cast as a regular on "American Gothic", a highly touted CBS supernatural drama
1993
Debut as a series regular, played The Wren, a beautiful "sportin' gal" on the short-lived CBS Western "Ned Blessing: The Story of My Life and Times"
1993
First notable mainstream Hollywood credit, "Hot Shots! Part Deux"