Blanche Baker (born December 20, 1956) is an American actress and
filmmaker. She won an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her
work in the television mini-series Holocaust. Baker is known for her
role as Ginny Baker in Sixteen Candles; she also starred in the title
role of Lolita on Broadway. In 2012, she produced and starred in a
film about Ruth Madoff titled Ruth Madoff Occupies Wall Street.Born
Blanche Garfein in New York City, she is the daughter of actress
Carroll Baker and director Jack Garfein. Her father is a Jew from
Carpathian Ruthenia (born in Mukachevo), who survived the Holocaust;
and her mother was a Roman Catholic who converted to Judaism. She also
has a younger brother, Herschel Garfein. She spent her early life in
Italy, where her mother had established a film career after leaving
Hollywood in the mid-1960s. Baker attended the American School in Rome
and then Wellesley College from 1974 to 1976, and later studied acting
at the Herbert Berghof Studio and the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.
filmmaker. She won an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her
work in the television mini-series Holocaust. Baker is known for her
role as Ginny Baker in Sixteen Candles; she also starred in the title
role of Lolita on Broadway. In 2012, she produced and starred in a
film about Ruth Madoff titled Ruth Madoff Occupies Wall Street.Born
Blanche Garfein in New York City, she is the daughter of actress
Carroll Baker and director Jack Garfein. Her father is a Jew from
Carpathian Ruthenia (born in Mukachevo), who survived the Holocaust;
and her mother was a Roman Catholic who converted to Judaism. She also
has a younger brother, Herschel Garfein. She spent her early life in
Italy, where her mother had established a film career after leaving
Hollywood in the mid-1960s. Baker attended the American School in Rome
and then Wellesley College from 1974 to 1976, and later studied acting
at the Herbert Berghof Studio and the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.
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