Public attention spiked: 2,833 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.6× the usual 785, with 0 article edits.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #attention
- #spike
- #pageviews
Figure timeline
Carroll Baker
Carroll Baker is a retired American actress. After studying under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, Baker began performing on Broadway in 1954. From there, she was recruited by director Elia Kazan to play the lead in the adaptation of two Tennessee Williams plays into the film Baby Doll in 1956. Her role in the film as a coquettish but sexually naïve Southern bride earned her a nomination for th…
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
entertainment · American actress (born 1931) · actor · stage actor · novelist · film actor · writer · television actor · dancer · also Carroll Baker, Karolina Piekarski, Baker
Born 28 May 1931 · Q233891
40 published statements · 0 followers
See & hear
Photos & media
7 photos
Media from Wikimedia Commons, hotlinked at the source under its own licence — see each file for author and terms.
Live now
In the news
Pulling headlines from trusted outlets — this usually takes a few seconds
Checking the wires…
Feed scan
These are live links, not archived citations — they only join the timeline once a collect run verifies and archives them.
Live pulse
Recent highlights
Most recent outstanding titles, awards, and quotes
- Quote
- Quote
2026· 4 entries
Public attention spiked: 2,986 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.8× the usual 785, with 1 article edits. Editors noted: Legacy MDY format
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #attention
- #spike
- #pageviews
Public attention spiked: 2,750 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.5× the usual 785, with 0 article edits.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #attention
- #spike
- #pageviews
Public attention spiked: 8,617 Wikipedia readers in one day, 11× the usual 785, with 0 article edits.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #attention
- #spike
- #pageviews
2011· 2 entries
Baker attended the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival in celebration of Williams' centenary
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
And 2012, she was awarded Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Hoboken and Fort Lauderdale International Film Festivals
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2002· 1 entry
Baker appeared in the documentary Cinerama Adventure, and guest-starred in an episode of The Lyon's Den, playing the mother of Rob Lowe's character
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2001· 1 entry
A Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars was also dedicated to her
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2000· 2 entries
And has been performed numerous times since
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Appeared in the Lifetime film Another Woman's Husband
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1997· 1 entry
Baker was cast in a supporting role in David Fincher's thriller The Game, in which she plays a housekeeper to a billionaire San Francisco banker (played by Michael Douglas) who becomes embroiled in a sadistic game by his
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1990· 1 entry
Baker played the role of Eleanor Crisp—described by Roger Ebert as "an effective bitch on wheels"—in Ivan Reitman's comedy Kindergarten Cop, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, which she filmed in Astoria, Oregon, in the sum
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1987· 1 entry
Had a supporting part in Ironweed (1987)
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1986· 1 entry
That she "didn't want to write an autobiography
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1983· 1 entry
Baker published an autobiography titled Baby Doll: An Autobiography, which detailed her life and career as an actress and revealed the issues with Paramount and Warner Bros
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1982· 2 entries
And resided in Hampstead, London, in the 1980s
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
When she guested on You're Tearing Me Apart, Terence Pettigrew's documentary which commemorated the 25th anniversary of Dean's death in a car accident in 1955
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1978· 1 entry
While touring England and Ireland in productions of Motive, Baker met stage actor Donald Burton, who became her third husband
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1975· 1 entry
As part of his Polaroid portrait series, and is mentioned in his published diaries
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1971· 1 entry
“Life seems to be a never-ending series of survivals, doesn't it?”
- #wikiquote
- #saying
- #undated
- #lang:en
1967· 1 entry
And moved to Europe with her two children to pursue a career there after struggling to find work in Hollywood
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1966· 3 entries
Over her contract with Paramount Pictures, and was ultimately fired by Paramount and had her paychecks from Harlow frozen amid the contentious legal dispute; this left Baker hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt (howe
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Amid a legal dispute over her contract with Paramount and Levine's overseeing of her career
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Baker had been invited to the Venice International Film Festival, where she met director Marco Ferreri, who asked her to play the lead role in Her Harem (1967)
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1965· 1 entry
Became an official celebrity spokesperson for Foster Grant sunglasses and appeared in advertisements for the company
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1964· 2 entries
Garfein and Baker separated in 1964 and divorced in 1969.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #life
- #personal-life
“I treated [him] like a child. I did everything for him, and he didn”
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #quote
1963· 1 entry
Baker relocated permanently with then-husband Jack Garfein and their two children to Los Angeles, where she based herself for the next several years
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1961· 1 entry
Appeared in the controversial independent film Something Wild, directed by her then-husband Jack Garfein, playing a traumatized rape victim
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1960· 1 entry
Awarded star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (1960).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
1957· 2 entries
Awarded Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year (1957).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
From Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Club
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1956· 2 entries
Who is also an actress, and a son, Herschel Garfein, born in 1958, who is a composer and faculty member at the Steinhardt School of Music at New York University
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
They had one daughter, Blanche Baker, born in 1956, who is also an actress, and a son, Herschel Garfein, born in 1958, who is a composer and faculty member at the Steinhardt School of Music at New York University.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #life
- #personal-life
1955· 2 entries
Baker married Jack Garfein, a Holocaust survivor she met at the Actors Studio and for whom she converted to Judaism (having been raised a Catholic)
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Screen tested and auditioned for the lead role in Picnic, but lost the part to Kim Novak
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1952· 1 entry
Enrolled at the Actors Studio and studied under Lee Strasberg
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1951· 1 entry
Baker moved to New York City, where she rented a dirt-floor basement apartment in Queens
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1949· 1 entry
Baker won the title of Miss Florida Fruits and Vegetables
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1931· 1 entry
Born 1931-05-28.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #birth