Becky Ann Baker

About

Becky Ann Baker (née Gelke; born February 17, 1953) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Jean Weir on the NBC comedy-drama series Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000) and as Loreen Horvath on the HBO comedy-drama series Girls (2012–2017); she earned two Critics’ Choice Television Award nominations and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for the latter.
Baker’s film credits include Jacob’s Ladder (1990), In & Out (1997), A Simple Plan (1998), Stay (2005), Nights in Rodanthe (2008), Hope Springs (2012), Table 19 (2017), The Half of It (2020), and Holler (2020).

Becky Ann Gelke was born in Fort Knox, Kentucky, the daughter of a military officer. She graduated from West Springfield High School in Springfield, Virginia and Western Kentucky University.

Baker’s film credits include Blue Steel, Jacob’s Ladder, Lorenzo’s Oil, Unstrung Heroes, Sabrina, Ridley Scott’s White Squall, Men in Black, In & Out, Woody Allen’s Celebrity, Sam Raimi’s A Simple Plan (for which she received a Blockbuster Entertainment Award nomination), Two Weeks Notice, Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds, Stay, The Night Listener, Death of a President, and Spider-Man 3.
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