Kathy Baker

Cast in the feature adatation of "The Jane Austen Book Club," as Bernadette a 67-years-young yoga enthusiast

Cast in the ensemble "Nine Lives"; Rodrigo García directs a series of vignettes, offering glimpses into the lives of nine women

Featured in "Cold Mountain," which starred Nicole Kidman and Jude Law

Acted opposite Robert Duvall in "Assassination Tango"

Played Gladys in the made for television movie "Door to Door"; received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a TV-movie

Co-starred in the thriller "The Glass House"

Received sixth career Emmy nomination for guest role of a controling mother on Fox's "Boston Public", created by David E. Kelley; joined cast as series regular as of the 2001-2002 season

Earned an Emmy nomination for a guest appearance on "Touched By an Angel"

Had featured role in the Sundance-screened episodic film "Things You Can Tell Just By Looking at Her"; aired on Showtime in 2001

Starred as a woman who employs a magic ring to make her ordinary life spectacular in the Showtime original children's movie "Ratz"

Had featured role as one of the nurses at the orphanage in Lasse Hallstrom's adaptation "The Cider House Rules"

Reteamed with director Michael Pressman as a single-minded social worker in the holiday drama "A Season for Miracles" (CBS)

Had a recurring role on "The Practice" (ABC) as a woman accused of murdering a baby

Starred as a survivor of the Oklahoma City bombing who struggles to deal with her life after the tragedy in Lifetime's "Oklahoma City: A Survivor's Story"

Featured in the ABC anthology series "Gun"

Featured in the HBO original TV-movie "Weapons of Mass Distraction"

Played a widowed mother of two sons in the period drama "Inventing the Abbotts"

Starred in the fact-based TV-movie "Not in This Town" (USA Network) as a community activist working to lessen the influence of white supremecists

Played the sister-in-law of a man mourning his wife's death in "To Gillian on her 37th Birthday"

Featured in the independent drama "Lush Life", aired on Showtime

Reteamed with De Niro in "Mad Dog and Glory"

First role as a TV series regular, "Picket Fences" (CBS); won three Emmy Awards playing the wife of the town sheriff in this quirky drama-comedy created by David E. Kelley

Was a supporting player in the comedy "Article 99" and the thriller "Jennifer 8"

Starred in the NBC TV-movie "One Special Victory"

Featured in the HBO original film "The Image"

Had a memorable featured role as a flirty neighbor smitten with "Edward Scissorhands"

Starred with Robert De Niro as a spinster schoolteacher who puts her life on hold to watch over her troubled brother (Ed Harris) in the drama feature "Jacknife"

Co-starred with Michael Keaton as a recovering drug addict in "Clean and Sober"

Played the mother of a suicidal teen in the moving drama "Permanent Record"

Co-starred as a doomed prostitute in the feature "Street Smart"

Guest starred on episodes of "Amazing Stories" (NBC) and "Mariah" (ABC)

First feature leading role, "My Sister's Keeper"

Had early television credit as co-star in the fact-based TV-movie "Nobody's Child" (CBS)

Film acting debut in "The Right Stuff", starring Shepard and Harris

Made Off-Broadway debut reprising role in "Fool For Love"

Starred opposite Ed Harris in the San Francisco premiere of Sheperd's "Fool for Love"; credited as Kathy Whitton Baker (date approximate)

Returned to California

Moved to Paris to study cooking at Cordon Bleu

Successfully auditioned for the CalArts acting program; attended for one year and subsequently dropped out

Began acting in Albuquerque Children's Theatre at age ten (date approximate)

Featured in the Magic Theatre production "The Man Who Killed the Buddha", where she was spotted by Sam Shepard

Raised in New Mexico

While working as a pastry chef in San Francisco, auditioned at the Magic Theatre