Diane Carol Baker (born February 25, 1938) is an American actress, producer and educator who has appeared in motion pictures and on television since 1959. Baker was born in Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital in Hollywood, raised in North Hollywood and Studio City, California. She is the daughter of Dorothy Helen Harrington, who had appeared in several early Marx Brothers movies, and automobile salesperson Clyde Lucius Baker. Baker has two younger sisters, Patricia and Cheryl. At age 18, after graduating from Van Nuys High School in the senior class of 1956, Baker moved to New York to study acting with Charles Conrad and ballet with Nina Fonaroff. In the decades after Mirage, she appeared frequently on television and began producing films, including the drama film Never Never Land (1980) and the miniseries A Woman of Substance (1984), in which she played Laura. She reemerged on the big screen in The Silence of the Lambs (1991) as Senator Ruth Martin ("Love your suit," Hannibal Lecter memorably said to her). Baker also appeared in the films The Joy Luck Club, The Cable Guy, The Net and A Mighty Wind. She guest-starred in four episodes of House in 2005, 2008 and twice in 2012 as Blythe House, the mother of the title character. Since August 2004, Baker has been the Executive Director of the School of Motion Pictures, Television and Acting at the renowned Academy of Art University, the nation’s largest accredited private art and design school, in San Francisco.

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