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Carroll Baker (born May 28, 1931) is an American film, stage, and television actress. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Baker's range of roles from naive ingenues to brash and flamboyant women established her as both a serious dramatic actress and a blonde bombshell. While performing on Broadway in 1954, she was recruited by director Elia Kazan to play the lead in Tennessee Williams's ''Baby Doll'' (1956). Her role in the film as a sexually-repressed Southern bride lent Baker overnight notoriety and earned her BAFTA and Academy Award nominations for Best Actress, as well as a Golden Globe award for Most Promising Newcomer that year. Other notable early roles included ''Giant'' (1956) and ''But Not for Me'' (1959), as well as westerns such as ''The Big Country'' (1958), ''How the West Was Won'' (1962), and ''Cheyenne Autumn'' (1964). In the mid-1960s, Baker became an established sex symbol for her roles in ''The Carpetbaggers'' (1964), ''Sylvia'' (1965), and ''Harlow'' (1965). She relocated to Italy in 1966 amidst a legal battle over her contract with Paramount Pictures, and spent the following ten years starring in hard-edged horror and giallo thrillers, including Umberto Lenzi's ''Paranoia'' (1969) and ''Knife of Ice'' (1972), before re-emerging for American audiences as a character actress in Andy Warhol's cult film ''Bad'' (1977). Baker worked prominently in television throughout the 1980s and 1990s, appearing on the series ''Murder, She Wrote''; ''L.A. Law'', and ''Roswell'', and had supporting roles in the films ''Ironweed'' (1987), ''Kindergarten Cop'' (1990) and ''The Game'' (1997). She formally retired from acting in 2002. In addition to acting, Baker is also the author of three books. ==Early life== Carroll Baker was born and raised in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in a Roman Catholic family, the daughter of Virginia (née Duffy) and William Watson Baker, who was a traveling salesman.〔 She is of Polish descent,〔"Caroll Baker". Polish American Encyclopedia. p. 23.〕 which has given rise to a rumor that her birth name was Karolina Piekarski. However, this currently cannot be substantiated by known records. Baker's parents separated when she was eight years old, and she moved with her mother and younger sister, Virginia, to Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania. According to Baker, her mother struggled as a single parent, and the family was poor for much of her upbringing.〔 Baker attended Greensburg Central Catholic High School in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, where she was a debate team member and active in the marching band and school musicals.〔 At eighteen, she moved with her family to St. Petersburg, Florida, where she attended St. Petersburg College (then St. Pete Junior College).〔 After her first year in college, Baker began working as a magician's assistant in the vaudeville circuit〔 and joined a dance company, working as a professional dancer.〔 In 1949, Baker won the title of Miss Florida Fruits and Vegetables. In 1951, Baker moved to New York City, where she rented a dirt floor basement apartment in Queens. She worked as a nightclub dancer and also took stint jobs as a chorus girl in traveling vaudeville shows, which took her to Windsor, Detroit, and New Jersey.〔 In 1952, Baker enrolled at the Actors Studio and studied under Lee Strasberg.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Yahoo! Movies )〕 There, she was a classmate of Mike Nichols, Rod Steiger, Shelley Winters, and Marilyn Monroe; she also became close friends with James Dean, and remained friends with him until his death.〔. ''Media Funhouse'' (2000). Retrieved November 13, 2012.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carroll Baker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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