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 Actressâ€"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.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.Babcock's television
appearances began in 1956. They included several episodes of the
original series of Star Trek, although much of her work on the show
consisted of uncredited voice roles. In 1968, she made her debut on
the big screen in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer western Day of the Evil Gun,
followed by roles in the films Heaven with a Gun, co-starring Glenn
Ford, Bang the Drum Slowly, Chosen Survivors, The Black Marble, Back
Roads, The Lords of Discipline and That Was Then... This Is Now. From
1978 to 1982, she played the role of Liz Craig on the CBS soap opera
Dallas. Other notable films include Heart of Dixie, Happy Together,
Far and Away and Space Cowboys.
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 Actressâ€"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.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.Babcock's television
appearances began in 1956. They included several episodes of the
original series of Star Trek, although much of her work on the show
consisted of uncredited voice roles. In 1968, she made her debut on
the big screen in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer western Day of the Evil Gun,
followed by roles in the films Heaven with a Gun, co-starring Glenn
Ford, Bang the Drum Slowly, Chosen Survivors, The Black Marble, Back
Roads, The Lords of Discipline and That Was Then... This Is Now. From
1978 to 1982, she played the role of Liz Craig on the CBS soap opera
Dallas. Other notable films include Heart of Dixie, Happy Together,
Far and Away and Space Cowboys.
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