Barbara Babcock
Barbara Babcock was born in Fort Riley, Kansas, United States on February 27th, 1937 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 87, Barbara Babcock biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Barbara Babcock (born February 27, 1937) is an American character actress.
She is perhaps best known for her role as Grace Gardner on Hill Street Blues, for which she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress—Drama Series in 1981, and her role as Dorothy Jennings on Dr.
Quinn, Medicine Woman, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1993.
Early life
Although she was born in the United States, Babcock spent a large part of her childhood in Tokyo, Japan, where her father, U.S. Army Gen. Conrad Stanton Babcock, Jr., was stationed. She learned to speak Japanese before English.
Babcock studied at Switzerland's University of Lausanne and Italy's University of Milan. She also attended Miss Porter's School and graduated from Wellesley College, where she was a classmate of Ali MacGraw.
Personal life
In 2004, Babcock was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and now resides in Carmel, California.
Babcock and actress Susan Bjurman received a patent for a shampoo that they developed.
Career
Babcock's television appearances began in 1956. Several episodes of the original series of Star Trek were included, but much of her appearances on the show consisted of uncredited voice roles.
She made her debut on the big screen in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer western Day of the Evil Gun with Glenn Ford in 1968, followed by starring roles in the films Heaven with a Gun alongside Glenn Ford, Bang the Drum Slowly with Robert De Niro, Sally Field, and Tommy Lee Jones, The Lords of Discipline. Emilio Estevez of "Is Now" appears on this Is Now. Liz Craig appeared on the CBS soap opera Dallas from 1978 to 1982. Heart of Dixie with Ally Sheedy, Happi Together, Far and Away with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, and Space Cowboys with Clint Eastwood and James Garner are among the notable films. In 1969, she appeared in a episode of Hogan's Heroes.
Babcock received the 1981 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress/Drama Series for her appearance on Hill Street Blues. Grace Gardner appeared in 16 episodes of the NBC police drama from 1981 to 1986. In 1984, she appeared in the short-lived television series The Four Seasons, Mr. Sunshine in 1986, and The Law & Harry McGraw in 1987.
Dorothy Jennings appeared in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman from 1993 to 1998, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. (However, the Emmy Awards website lists the nomination for 1995.) In 1994, People magazine named her as one of the world's Most Beautiful People. She appeared in The Pretender, Chicago Hope, Frasier, and Judging Amy after the conclusion of the show in 1998. She appeared in Dana Delany's character in the Fox drama series Pasadena from 2001 to 2002.