Acting

Brett Baker

Born 23 August 1967 · San Diego, California, USA · 59

Brett Baker (born August 23, 1967, San Diego, California) is an American actor who grew up in Anchorage, Alaska, where he began performing at age 12 in equity productions at the Alaska Repertory Theatre and by 14 was working alongside Broadway actors in An Enemy of the People and A Christmas Carol. He was one of the youngest actors ever accepted into the professional training program at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, where he earned a BFA in Acting (1985–1989), and in 1998 became one of only five American performers to receive an international acting scholarship to study at the Royal National Theatre/Old Vic in London under the patronage of Anthony Hopkins. He has worked opposite River Phoenix, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Crudup, John Krasinski, Jason Bateman, Dermot Mulroney, Nicolas Cage, and Jon Voight, who hand-picked him to star opposite him in Beyond (2012). His notable film credits include Dogfight (1991) (Robert Downey Jr., Nathan Lane), Fire Down Below (1997) (Wesley Snipes, Steven Seagal), Beyond (2012) (Jon Voight, Dermot Mulroney), Identity Thief (2013) (Melissa McCarthy, Jason Bateman), The Frozen Ground (2013) (Nicolas Cage, John Cusack), Big Miracle (2012) (John Krasinski, Kate Winslet), Focus (2015) (Will Smith, Margot Robbie), Maggie (2015) (Hugh Jackman, Anna Kendrick), When the Bough Breaks (2016) (Hayden Panettiere, Dylan McDermott), LBJ (2016) (Mark Ruffalo, Matthew McConaughey), and Unseen (2023). On television he has appeared in Star Trek: Enterprise (2001), 13 Reasons Why (2017), Truth Be Told (2019), The Purge (2019), Zoo (2015), NCIS: New Orleans, Salem, The Astronaut Wives Club, and Roots (2016).