Mark Linn-Baker
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| Born |
June 17, 1954 St. Louis, Missouri, United States |
| Alma mater | Yale University |
| Occupation | Actor, director |
| Years active | 1979–present |
| Spouse(s) |
Adrianne Lobel (1995–2009) Christa Justus (2012–present) |
| Children | 1 |
Mark Linn-Baker (born June 17, 1954) is an American actor and director who played Benjy Stone in the film My Favorite Year and Larry Appleton in the television sitcom Perfect Strangers.
Linn-Baker was born in St. Louis, Missouri. His mother, Joan, was a dancer and his father, William Nelson Baker, co-founded the Open Stage Theater in Hartford. He was graduated from Wethersfield High School in Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1972, and from Yale University in 1976 (where he was known as Mark Baker; Linn is actually his middle name). He then attended the Yale School of Drama, receiving a MFA in Drama in 1979, and following that, found most of his early roles on stage.
In 1995, Linn-Baker married Adrianne Lobel, the daughter of children's book author Arnold Lobel, best known for his Frog and Toad series. They were divorced, after having one daughter. Linn-Baker helped to adapt his father-in-law's stories into the Tony-nominated Broadway musical A Year with Frog and Toad, in which Linn-Baker played Toad and Jay Goede played Frog. On December 29, 2012, Linn-Baker married actress Christa Justus.
He developed and performed in a two-man comedy show, The Laundry Hour, with Lewis Black, in the early 1980s. He appeared in the 1983 Broadway version of the Doonesbury comic strip. He appeared in Laughter on the 23rd Floor in 1993; the 1996 revival of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; the 1998 Roundabout Theatre Company production of A Flea in Her Ear; the 2003 musical A Year with Frog and Toad; and the 2006 comedy Losing Louie.
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