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 the Academy Award for Best Actress.

28 May 1931

Born on the same birth date (28 May 1931): Gordon Willis

Born on the same birth day (28 May): Adam Green (musician) • António Manoel de Vilhena • Bülent Ecevit • Clough Williams-Ellis • Edward Seaga • Hans-Jörg Butt • Jim Thorpe • Kylie Minogue • Miguel Pérez (footballer, born 1980) • Minna Gombell • N. T. Rama Rao • Patrick McNair-Wilson • Péter Szilágyi (conductor) • Risi Pouri-Lane • Sally Forrest • Sondra Locke • Steven Bell • T-Bone Walker • W. G. G. Duncan Smith • Walker Percy • William Pitt the Younger • Youri Egorov • Zelda Rubinstein • Zsa Zsa Padilla

Born in the same month (May 1931): Alvin Lucier • Bob Anderson (racing driver) • Dewey Redman • Faten Hamama • Hana Brady • James Fitz-Allen Mitchell • Louis Smith (musician) • Philip Kotler • Trevor Peacock • Willie Mays