Meredith Baxter
Meredith Baxter was born in South Pasadena, California, United States on June 21st, 1947 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 77, Meredith Baxter biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Meredith Ann Baxter (born June 21, 1947) is an American actress and producer.
Meredith Baxter Birney is known for her appearances on ABC drama series Family (1976–80) and the NBC sitcom Family Ties (1982–89).
One of her nominations was for playing the title role in the 1992 television film A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story, a five-time Emmy Award nominee.
Early life
Baxter was born in South Pasadena, California, and the niece of actor, director, and producer Whitney Blake; and radio announcer Tom Baxter. Baxter and her two brothers, Richard (born 1944) and Brian (born 1946), were raised by her mother in Pasadena after her parents were divorced in 1953. Allan Manings, a situation comedy writer, was her second stepfather. Michael Gross, her co-star in Family Ties, was born on June 21, 1947.
Before moving to Hollywood High School, Baxter was educated at James Monroe High School. She attended Interlochen Center for the Performing Arts as a voice major during her senior years, but she returned to Hollywood High, where she graduated in 1965.
Personal life
Baxter has been married four times and has five children.
During an interview with Matt Lauer on Today and on the Frank DeCaro Show on Sirius-XM OutQ 102, she came out as a lesbian. Accepting her sexual orientation made her understand why, in part, previous relationships with men had failed.
Baxter said that ex-husband David Birney emotionally and physically assaulted her on March 1, 2011. Birney denied the charges.ABC News reported that:
According to ABC News, Baxter's marriage to Birney lasted for the entire seven years she worked on Family Ties.
Baxter discussed Birney on The Today Show the day after, she travelled to Chicago to speak with The Oprah Winfrey Show for further examination of the issues covered in her book. Michael Gross, a co-star of Family Ties, had to surprise Baxter on-camera. Gross said that Baxter had made throughout their seven years of being on the show and that no one connected with the series knew or suspected that Baxter's husband was abusing her at the time. Gross was affectionate with Baxter on camera and expressed sadness for having endured such a long wait. Birney denied allegations that he assaulted Baxter vehemently.
To keep her weight under control, Baxter went vegetarian.
In 1999, Baxter was diagnosed with breast cancer. She made a complete recovery after the surgery.
Career
Baxter got her first appearance in television in 1970 on an episode of The Partridge Family in its second season. She later appeared in 1972 as one of the stars of Bridget Loves Bernie, a CBS television network situation comedy. The series was canceled after one season. Her co-star, David Birney, became her second husband in 1974. Until they were divorced in 1989, she was credited as Meredith Baxter Birney, under which name she became widely known in 1976 on Family. She played the role of Nancy Lawrence Maitland and received two Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Continuing Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (1977 and 1978). In 1976 she played the wife of White House staffer Hugh W. Sloan Jr. in All the President's Men
After Family ended, she starred with Annette O'Toole and Shelley Hack in Vanities (1981), a television production of the comedy-drama stage play about the lives, loves and friendship of three Texas cheerleaders starting from high school to post-college graduation; it aired as a part of Standing Room Only, a series on the premium television channel HBO.
In 1982, Baxter landed the role of Elyse Keaton, the former flower child matriarch of the Keaton family on the NBC sitcom Family Ties. In 1986, during her time on Family Ties, Baxter garnered critical acclaim for her dramatic performance as Kate Stark in the NBC television film Kate's Secret, about a seemingly "perfect" suburban housewife and mother who is secretly suffering from bulimia nervosa. Following Family Ties, Baxter produced and starred in television films. She portrayed a psychopathic kidnapper in The Kissing Place (1990) and was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special for her work in A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story (1992), based on the true story of Betty Broderick, a divorcée who was convicted of murder in the shooting of her ex-husband and his young wife. For her work on the television film My Breast (1994), she received a special award for public awareness from the National Breast Cancer Coalition. In 1997, Baxter once again played the mother of a character played by Michael J. Fox (who portrayed her son, Alex P. Keaton, on Family Ties), this time in two episodes of Spin City.
In 2005, she began appearing in television commercials for Garden State Life Insurance Company. In 2006, she temporarily co-hosted—with Matt Lauer—Today, the NBC morning news and talk show. In 2007, she made a guest appearance on What About Brian, an ABC drama series. That same year, she also made several appearances as the dying mother of Detective Lilly Rush on Cold Case, a CBS police procedural series. In recent years, Baxter created a skin care line called Meredith Baxter Simple Works, which raises funds for Baxter's breast cancer research foundation.
Baxter was the guest speaker at the 2008 Southern Commencement for National University in La Jolla, California, and was awarded an honorary doctoral degree from the university.
On March 1, 2011, Baxter's memoir, titled Untied, was published. In the book, she details her early life, her unhappy and in some cases abusive marriages, her struggles with and recovery from alcoholism, and her realization that she is a lesbian. The book became a New York Times bestseller.
She is also a spokesperson for the senior mobile service provider Consumer Cellular. She voiced the character "Elise Sr." in Dan Vs.. In April 2013, it was announced that Baxter would be in the season 4 finale episode of Glee, along with Patty Duke, as a mentor to Darren Criss's character Blaine Anderson and Chris Colfer's character, Kurt Hummel. She also made a guest appearance on the ABC Family/Freeform series Switched at Birth as the widowed mother of Kathryn Kennish (portrayed by Lea Thompson).
On August 4, 2014, producers announced that Baxter would be joining The Young and the Restless as Maureen, Nikki Newman's new drinking buddy, a "charming, intelligent, middle-class woman who has always aspired to a more privileged life than she has had". Baxter started appearing on the program on September 8. She also played the mother to "Stich" Raybourne and Kelly Andrews.
