Carroll Baker is an award-winning American actress.

Background:
After leaving her hometown of Johnstown, PA, Carroll Baker got her start in the spotlight by working as a dancer and a magician’s assistant before beginning her film career in 1953 with Easy to Love. She later moved on to working on legendary films such as Giant (1956), in which she starred opposite Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean and in 1957 she won an Academy Award for Most Promising Newcomer alongside Jayne Mansfield and Natalie Wood. Her most notable film, Baby Doll (1956), garnered her a Golden Globe and Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Other films include How the West Was (1962), The Carpetbaggers (1964), Harlow (1965), Star 80 (1983), Ironweed (1987) and Kindergarten Cop (1990) amongst many others.

Carroll Baker has written three books and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 

AWARDS:

1956: National League of Women’s Press Club Award,
Best Supporting Actress, GIANT

1956: Golden Globe Award,
Most Promising Newcomer, Female

1957 San Francisco Critics’ Award,
Best Actress, BABY DOLL

1957 Foreign Press Club Award,
Best Dramatic Actress, BABY DOLL

1958 “Woman of the Year” Hasty Pudding Club, Harvard

Look Magazine’s Film Achievement Award

Carroll got her “star” on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame

1962 Made a Kentucky Colonel

1964 Made Honorary Member of Cheyenne Indian Tribe

1966 Honorary Induction to U.S. Air Force for U.S.O. work

1978 Acknowledged Important and Valuable Human Resource by the
Bicentennial (1776-1976) Research Institute

1996 GOLDEN BOOT AWARD for her work in Westerns
THE BIG COUNTRY, CHEYENNE AUTUMN, HOW THE WEST WAS WON