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Blanche Baker (born December 20, 1956 in New York City) is an American Emmy Award winning actress. She is the daughter of actress Carroll Baker and director Jack Garfein. December 20 is the 354th day of the year (355th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: Big Apple; City that never Sleeps; Gotham Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... An Emmy Award. ... For the Canadian country music performer, refer to Carroll Baker (singer). ... Jack Garfein, born July 2, 1930 in Mukacevo, Carpathian Ruthenia, Czechoslovakia (now Mukacheve, Ukraine), is an acting teacher and former motion picture and theater director. ...


Baker was well known in the late 1970's and 1980's for her work in movies such as "Holocaust", "Cold Feet" and "Sixteen Candles". Events and trends Although in the United States and in many other Western societies the 1970s are often seen as a period of transition between the turbulent 1960s and the more conservative 1980s and 1990s, many of the trends that are associated widely with the Sixties, from the Sexual Revolution... Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... Concentration camp inmates during the Holocaust The Holocaust was Nazi Germanys systematic genocide (ethnic cleansing) of various ethnic, religious, national, and secular groups during World War II. Early elements include the Kristallnacht pogrom and the T-4 Euthanasia Program established by Hitler that killed some 200,000 people. ... Cold Feet is a British comedy/drama, made by Granada Television, broadcast on the ITV network and shown in five series between 1997 and 2003. ... Sixteen Candles is a popular 1984 coming-of-age film starring Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall and Michael Schoeffling. ...


Even today she still makes appearances on television shows such as Law & Order. This article is about the original TV series. ...


TV Work

Year Title Role Other notes
2006 Jersey Justice Polly O'Bannon Post-Production
2006 Underdogs Marie
2005 Law & Order: CI Miriam Engles Episode: Diamond Dogs
1994 Dead Funny Barbara
1992 In the Heat of the Night Jenny Sawyer Episode: Love, Honor & Obey
1992 Law & Order Lucy Neven Episode: Star Struck
1987 Spenser: For Hire Carolyn Tomlinson Episode: Personal Demons
1986 Nobody's Child Shari
1985 The Equalizer Allison Webster Episode: Desperately
1982 The Day the Bubble Burst Jolan Slezsak
1979 Holocaust Anna Weiss Emmy Award winning performance

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Filmography

Year Title Role Other notes
1991 Livin' Large Kate Penndragin
1990 The Handmaid's Tale Ofglen
1989 The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
1988 Bum Rap Lisa DuSoir
1988 Shakedown Gail Feinberger
1986 Raw Deal Amy Kaminski
1985 Embassy Megan Hillyer
1984 Sixteen Candles Ginny
1983 Cold Feet Leslie Christo
1981 The Awakening of Candra
1979 Mary and Joseph: In the beginning there was Love
1979 French Postcards Laura
1979 The Seduction of Joe Tynan Janet
1979 Mary and Joseph: A Story of Faith

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