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For the Canadian country music performer, refer to
Carroll Baker (singer).

Carroll Baker (Karolina Piekarski) (born May 28,
1931) is a Poland|Polish-USA|American actress.


Born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, she began her
film career in 1953, with a small part in Easy to
Love.  After appearing in television commercials,
her big break came in 1956, when she not only
appeared in the big feature Giant (movie)|Giant,
but starred in Baby Doll, for which she was
nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

In 1964 she starred in The Carpetbaggers, and in
1965 in Harlow.  Afterwards, she moved to Europe,
where she appeared in several films in Italy,
Spain, Germany and the United Kingdom, as well as
in Mexico.

An apocryphal story has it that a Masai chief
offered 150 cows, 200 goats, sheep, and $750 for
her while she was on location in Africa for the
1965 movie Mister Moses.

She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at
1719 Vine Street.

==Filmography==
*Easy to Love (1953)
*Giant (movie)|Giant (1956)
*Baby Doll (1956)
*The Big Country (movie)|The Big Country (1958)
*But Not for Me (1959)
*The Miracle (movie)|The Miracle (1959)
*Bridge to the Sun (1961)
*Something Wild (1961 movie)|Something Wild (1961)
*How the West Was Won (movie)|How the West Was Won
(1962)
*Station Six-Sahara (1962)
*The Carpetbaggers (1964)
*Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
*Sylvia (1965 movie)|Sylvia (1965)
*The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
*Mister Moses (1965)
*Harlow (movie)|Harlow (1965)
*Her Harem (1967)
*Jack of Diamonds (1967 film)|Jack of Diamonds
(1967) (Cameo)
*The Sweet Body of Deborah (1968)
*Orgasm (movie)|Orgasm (1969)
*So Sweet, So Perverse (1969)
*The Spider (1970 movie)|The Spider (1970)
*Paranoia (movie)|Paranoia (1970)
*The Fourth Mrs. Anderson (1971)
*Captain Apache (1971)
*The Devil Has Seven Faces (1971)
*Knife of Ice (1972)
*Baba Yaga (movie)|Baba Yaga (1973)
*The Flower with Petals of Steel (1973)
*The Body (movie)|The Body (1974)
*The Virgin Wife (1975)
*Private Lessons (1975)
*My Father's Wife (1976)
*As of Tomorrow (1976)
*Bait (movie)|Bait (1976)
*Bad (movie)|Bad (1977)
*Cyclone (movie)|Cyclone (1978)
*The World Is Full of Married Men (1979)
*The Sky Is Falling (1979)
*The Watcher in the Woods (1980)
*Star 80 (1983)
*The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud (1984)
*Native Son (1986)
*Hollywood Uncensored (1987) (documentary)
*Ironweed (1987)
*Kindergarten Cop (1990)
*Blonde Fist (1991)
*Jackpot (movie)|Jackpot (1992)
*Gipsy Angel (1994)
*In the Flesh (1995)
*Skeletons (movie)|Skeletons (1996)
*The Game (film)|The Game (1997)
*Nowhere to Go (1998)
*Cinerama Adventure (2002) (documentary)