• Name: Dylan Baker
  • Date of Birth: October 07, 1959
  • Place of Birth: Syracuse, New York, USA
Mini-bio: Dylan Baker was born in Syracuse, New York. He spent his childhood in Lynchburg, Virginia, and upon graduation from Georgetown Prep School in Rockville, Maryland, he attended William and Mary College ...( read more)– where his interest in the theater was born. He earned his B.F.A. at Southern Methodist University in Dallas and his M.F.A. at the Yale School of Drama. While at Yale, he appeared onstage in such Yale Reparatory productions as Rum and Coke, Tartuffe, About Face, and Richard III.

Baker was honored with an IFP Gotham Award and an IFP West Independent Spirit Award nomination for his starring role as Bill Maplewood in the critically acclaimed film Happiness, directed by Todd Solondz. Additional feature film credits include Hide and Seek, Kinsey, Rick, Spiderman II and III, Head of State, How to Deal, Road to Perdition, Changing Lanes, The Cell, Along Came a Spider, Random Hearts, Requiem for a Dream, Celebrity, Simply Irresistible, Disclosure, Planes Trains and Automobiles, The Long Walk Home, Delirious, Let’s Go to Prison, and Fido. In addition to The Stone Angel, Baker recently completed Spring Break in Bosnia, and When a Man Falls in the Forest.

Baker’s television credits include Tom Hanks’ HBO mini-series From the Earth to the Moon, Stephen Bochco’s courtroom drama Murder One, Book of Daniel, The Pitts, Feds, HBO's The Laramie Project, the CBS MOW The Elizabeth Smart Story, the NBC mini-series The Murder of Mary Phagan, and the CBS MOW Deadly Force. He earned Tony Award and Drama Desk Award nominations for his role as The Prince in the Broadway production of La Bete and an Obie Award for his performance in the Off-Broadway production of Not About Heroes. Most recently he starred in Sea of Tranquility at the Atlantic Theatre Company and received rave reviews for his role in the Off-Broadway production of Homebody/Kabul at the New York Theatre Workshop.

In addition to being a charter member of the Drama Department Theatre Co., Baker has enjoyed directing such plays as The Taming of the Shrew, The Importance of Being Ernest, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival.
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Replace this image with an actor photoDylan Baker mini-bio: Dylan Baker was born in Syracuse, New York. He spent his childhood in Lynchburg, Virginia, and upon graduation from Georgetown Prep School in Rockville, Maryland, he attended William and Mary College – where his interest in the theater was born. He earned his B.F.A. at Southern Methodist University in Dallas and his M.F.A. at the Yale School of Drama. While at Yale, he appeared onstage in such Yale Reparatory productions as Rum and Coke, Tartuffe, About Face, and Richard III.

Baker was honored with an IFP Gotham Award and an IFP West Independent Spirit Award nomination for his starring role as Bill Maplewood in the critically acclaimed film Happiness, directed by Todd Solondz. Additional feature film credits include Hide and Seek, Kinsey, Rick, Spiderman II and III, Head of State, How to Deal, Road to Perdition, Changing Lanes, The Cell, Along Came a Spider, Random Hearts, Requiem for a Dream, Celebrity, Simply Irresistible, Disclosure, Planes Trains and Automobiles, The Long Walk Home, Delirious, Let’s Go to Prison, and Fido. In addition to The Stone Angel, Baker recently completed Spring Break in Bosnia, and When a Man Falls in the Forest.

Baker’s television credits include Tom Hanks’ HBO mini-series From the Earth to the Moon, Stephen Bochco’s courtroom drama Murder One, Book of Daniel, The Pitts, Feds, HBO's The Laramie Project, the CBS MOW The Elizabeth Smart Story, the NBC mini-series The Murder of Mary Phagan, and the CBS MOW Deadly Force. He earned Tony Award and Drama Desk Award nominations for his role as The Prince in the Broadway production of La Bete and an Obie Award for his performance in the Off-Broadway production of Not About Heroes. Most recently he starred in Sea of Tranquility at the Atlantic Theatre Company and received rave reviews for his role in the Off-Broadway production of Homebody/Kabul at the New York Theatre Workshop.

In addition to being a charter member of the Drama Department Theatre Co., Baker has enjoyed directing such plays as The Taming of the Shrew, The Importance of Being Ernest, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival.

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  • GoodPossum


    32 Videos/Trailer for Dylan Baker

    http://www.videodetective.com/actor/DYLAN_BAKER/video/P00002231.htm

    WIZARD OF LONELINESS, THE 1988
    LOVE POTION NO.9 1992
    DISCLOSURE 1994
    HAPPINESS 1998
    SIMPLY IRRESISTIBLE 1999
    THIRTEEN DAYS 2000
    ALONG CAME A SPIDER 2001
    LARAMIE PROJECT, THE 2002
    GENTLEMAN'S GAME, A 2002
    HEAD OF STATE 2003
    RICK 2002
    HIDE AND SEEK 2005
    MATADOR, THE 2005
    LET'S GO TO PRISON 2006
    FIDO 2007
    CHICAGO 10 2008

    and more............
    posted 143 days ago
  • Kingofguns
    Cant wait to see him become the lizard
    posted 381 days ago

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