Blanche Baker
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Blanche Baker in a 2007 performance of The Vietnamization of New Jersey
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| Born |
Blanche Garfein December 20, 1956 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1978–present |
| Spouse(s) |
Bruce Van Dusen (m. 1983–2002) Mark Magill (m. 2003) |
| Children | Zane Van Dusen Dara Van Dusen (born 1986) Wynn Van Dusen James Magill |
Blanche Baker (born December 20, 1956) 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, and 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.
Born Blanche Garfein in New York City, she is the daughter of actress Carroll Baker and director Jack Garfein. Her father is a Czech Jew, who survived the Holocaust; and her mother converted to Judaism. Baker attended Wellesley College from 1974 to 1976, and later studied acting at the Herbert Berghof Studio, the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, and the American School in London.
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.
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