Английская Википедия:Blanche Baker
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Blanche Baker is an American actress and filmmaker. She won an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in the television mini-series Holocaust. Baker is known for her role as Ginny Baker in Sixteen Candles; she also starred in the title role of Lolita on Broadway. In 2012, she produced and starred in a film about Ruth Madoff titled Ruth Madoff Occupies Wall Street.[1]
Early life and education
Born Blanche Garfein in New York City, she is the daughter of actress Carroll Baker and director Jack Garfein. Her father is a Jew from Carpathian Ruthenia (born in Mukachevo), who survived the Holocaust; and her mother was a Roman Catholic who converted to Judaism. She also has a younger brother, Herschel Garfein. She spent her early life in Italy, where her mother had established a film career after leaving Hollywood in the mid-1960s. Baker attended the American School in Rome and then Wellesley College from 1974 to 1976,[2] and later studied acting at the Herbert Berghof Studio[3] and the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.[4]
Career
Television
Blanche Baker made her television debut playing the character Anna Weiss in the miniseries Holocaust. (Her father Jack Garfein was a Holocaust survivor who had been imprisoned in Auschwitz.) She won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Comedy or Drama Series in 1978 for her performance.
She has subsequently appeared in the TV movies Mary and Joseph: A Story of Faith (1979) as Mary, The Day the Bubble Burst (1982), The Awakening of Candra (1983) as Candra Torres, Embassy (1985), Nobody's Child (1986), and Taking Chance (2009). She also has appeared on many TV series.
Theatre
In 1980–81, she originated the lead role in Edward Albee's stage adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita. During out-of-town tryouts and in New York, the play was picketed by feminists, including Women Against Pornography, who were outraged by the theme of pedophilia.[5]
The troubled production opened on Broadway on March 19, 1981, after 31 previews and closed after only 12 performances.[6] Frank Rich of The New York Times gave the play a bad review, terming it "the kind of embarrassment that audiences do not quickly forget or forgive." Baker was mentioned by Rich in only one line. "In the title role, here a minor figure, the 24-year-old Miss Baker does a clever job of impersonating the downy nymphet; she deserves a more substantial stage vehicle soon."[7]
People Magazine called Albee's Lolita "Broadway's Bomb of the Year" in an April 16, 1981, story.[8] Baker was the real subject of the article, and People writer Mark Donovan said "the critics were almost unanimous on one point: Blanche Baker was an ingenue whose time had come," citing reviews of critics that had called her "breathtaking" and "beguiling."
Baker originated the role of Shelby in the first production of Steel Magnolias Off-Broadway in 1987.[9]
Film
Baker made her movie debut in the political drama The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979). Other film appearances include Sixteen Candles (1984), Cold Feet (1984) and Taking Chance (2009).
Personal life
Baker married movie director Bruce vanDusen on October 1, 1983.[10] They had three children before divorcing in 2002.[11]
Baker remarried in 2003, to Mark McGill. They have one son.[11]
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1979 | French Postcards | Laura | |
1979 | Шаблон:Sortname | Janet | |
1982 | The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet | Juliet | |
1983 | Cold Feet | Leslie Christo | |
1984 | Sixteen Candles | Ginny Baker | |
1986 | Raw Deal | Amy Kaminski | |
1988 | Shakedown | Gail Feinberger | |
1988 | Bum Rap | Lisa DuSoir | |
1990 | Шаблон:Sortname | Ofglen | |
1991 | Livin' Large | Kate Penndragin | |
1994 | Dead Funny | Barbara | |
2006 | Underdogs | Marie | |
2006 | Шаблон:Sortname | Marie | Short film |
2007 | Шаблон:Sortname | Ruth Chandler | |
2008 | 3rd of July | Mrs. Shaw | Short film |
2008 | Jersey Justice | Polly O'Bannon | |
2009 | Science Fair (Or: Migratory Patterns & the Flight of the March Brown Mayfly) | Mom | Short film |
2009 | Jackrabbit Sky | Evelyn Boden | |
2010 | An Affirmative Act | Lori Belmont | |
2010 | Three Chris’s | Dolores Kelly | |
2011 | Fake | Mrs. Needham | |
2011 | The Grand Theft | Barbara Blushe | |
2011 | The Life Zone | Dr. Victoria Wise | |
2011 | Whisper Me a Lullaby | Aunt Jane | |
2011 | Untitled Folder | Mom | Short film |
2011 | Hell Grace | Mother | Short film |
2012 | Hypothermia | Hellen Pelletier | |
2012 | Ruth Madoff Occupies Wall Street | Ruth Madoff | Short film |
2012 | The Coffee Klash | Gayle | Short film |
2012 | Curiosity Killed the Cat | Gayle | |
2013 | Truth | Dr. Carter Moore | |
2013 | Classless | Principle Saunders | Short film |
2013 | Scallywag | Mom | Short film |
2014 | Deep in the Darkness | Zellis | |
2014 | The Coffee Shop | Gayle | |
2014 | Lady Peacock | Angie | |
2015 | Chasing Yesterday | Linda | |
2017 | Coin Heist | Mrs. Cunningham | |
2017 | Splitting Image | Karen | |
2018 | My Daughter Vanished | Helen | |
2019 | Zoe | Zoe’s Mother | Short film |
2021 | Alice Fades Away | Roxy | |
2023 | Perception | Margaret | Short film |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1978 | Holocaust | Anna Weiss | Television mini-series; Emmy Award for Supporting Actress in a Miniseries |
1979 | Mary and Joseph: A Story of Faith | Mary | Television film |
1981 | Шаблон:Sortname | Candra Torres | Television film |
1982 | Шаблон:Sortname | Joan Slezsak | Television film |
1985 | Шаблон:Sortname | Allison Webster | Episode: "Desperately" |
1985 | Embassy | Megan Hillyer | Television film |
1986 | Nobody's Child | Shari | Television film |
1987 | Spenser: For Hire | Carolyn Tomlinson | Episode: "Personal Demons" |
1991 | Шаблон:Sortname | Unknown | Episode: "Domestic Silence" |
1991 | Davis Rules | Cindy | Episode: "Everybody Comes to Nick's" |
1992 | In the Heat of the Night | Jenny Sawyer | Episode: "Love, Honor & Obey" |
1992 | Law & Order | Lucy Neven | Episode: "Star Struck" |
1994 | Clarissa Explains It All | Chelsea Chipley | Episode: "Janet and Clarissa, Inc." |
2005 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Miriam Engles | Episode: "Diamond Dogs" |
2009 | Taking Chance | Chris Phelps | Television film |
2013 | The Chris Gethard Show | Herself | Episode: "#119: Scare the Shit Out of Bethany" |
2014 | Wishin' and Hopin' | Sister Filomena | Television film |
As director
- 2017 - Streetwrite
- 2019 - Make America Safe[12]
References
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Lynch, Jason. "Her Bronze Mettle: Following Her Turn in Sixteen Candles, Blanche Baker Sculpted a Life Beyond Hollywood". People Magazine. March 4, 2002. Retrieved 6 May 2015. "Baker returned to the U.S. and enrolled at Wellesley College in 1974 but got the acting bug and dropped out two years later to study both art and acting in New York City."
- ↑ HB Studio Alumni
- ↑ "'Mary and Joseph' Filming". The Kentucky New Era. July 24, 1979. Retrieved 6 May 2015.
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite journal
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
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- ↑ 11,0 11,1 Шаблон:Cite web
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