Meridith Baer
| Meridith Baer | |
|---|---|
| Born |
August 21, 1947 Los Angeles, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress, screenwriter, interior designer, home stager |
| Years active | 1972–present |
Meridith Baer (born August 21, 1947) is an American actress, screenwriter, interior designer and home stager who runs a staging company in the United States, Meridith Baer Home. On June 1, 2013 HGTV premiered a television show about Baer and her company titled Staged To Perfection. The New York Times once called her "The Story Seller"
Baer grew up on the grounds of San Quentin State Prison, where her father was the associate warden. She attended a one-room school house on the prison reservation through the 8th grade. When she was 13, her father became the Director of Corrections for the state of Iowa, and moved the family to Des Moines to oversee Iowa’s prison system. After high school in Des Moines, she went to University of Colorado in Boulder where she received a BS in Journalism.
Right before graduation, Baer was approached on the University of Colorado by producer Jerry Bruckheimer to be in a Pepsi commercial, which lead to a career doing more than 100 television commercials, as well as being a model for Winston, a Kent girl and a Benson & Hedges girl. At the same time she worked for such magazines as Penthouse, Viva and New York, writing articles as “The Passionate Shopper”.
In 1975 she moved to Los Angeles, where she continued acting in films and television.
In 1981 she sold her first screenplay, Prisoners, for $250,000. A fictional love story about a teenage girl growing up in prison in the 1950s, it starred Tatum O’Neal. Produced by 20th Century-Fox, the film was ultimately shelved. Baer’s follow-up script, Unbecoming Age, was adapted into a film in 1992 by directors Alfredo and Deborah Ringel. Also known as The Magic Bubbles, the film was a comedy about a middle-aged woman wishing herself to become a teenager again. It starred Diane Salinger, Colleen Camp, Wallace Shawn, and featured an early appearance by young George Clooney.
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