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Carroll Baker is a retired American actress of film, stage, and television. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Baker’s range of roles from naive ingénues to brash and flamboyant women established her as both a serious dramatic actress and a pin-up. After studying under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, Baker began performing on Broadway in 1954, where she was recruited by director Elia Kazan to play the lead in the film of Tennessee Williams’s Baby Doll. Her role in the film as a sexually repressed Southern bride earned her BAFTA and Academy Award nominations for Best Actress, as well as a Golden Globe award for Most Promising Newcomer that year.