Dylan Baker Biography

Baker was born in Syracuse New York but was raised in Lynchburg Virginia. He began his career as a teenager in regional theater productions. He attended Holy Cross Regional Catholic School and then went on to attend Darlington School and finally graduated from the Georgetown Preparatory School in 1976.
He attended the College of William and Mary in Virginia and later graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1980. Baker then received a Masters in Fine Arts from the Yale School of Drama where he studied alongside Chris Noth and Patricia Clarkson.
Baker's Broadway theatre credits include Eastern Standard La Bête Mauritius and God of Carnage. He won an Obie Award in 1986 for his performance in the off-Broadway play Not About Heroes.
The next year he made his motion picture debut in the 1987 film Planes Trains and Automobiles.
Baker's first recurring TV role was on Steven Bochco's highly acclaimed Murder One. Since then he has appeared in such TV series as Northern Exposure Law & Order Law & Order: Criminal Intent Without a Trace CSI: Crime Scene Investigation The West Wing and the short-lived sitcom The Pitts. He garnered major critical attention in 1998 with his performance as a tormented pedophile in Todd Solondz's Happiness. He also gained notice for his portrayal of Dr. Curt Connors in Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3. In 2000 he portrayed Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in Thirteen Days a historical drama about the Cuban Missile Crisis. He also held a small role in Requiem for a Dream where he played a doctor who sees Jared Leto's character with a severely infected rotting arm. In 2002 he portrayed Alexander Rance an accountant for an Irish crime syndicate in Road to Perdition. During the short-lived 2007 series Drive Baker played the role of John Trimble a father suffering from a terminal illness.

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