Diane Baker – 83

Diane Baker got a good head start to her career in films. She had her big break in The Diary of Anne Frank movie back in the late ’50s. Although she has retired from acting, she is considered one of the best Hollywood has seen. In fact, she’s achieved a list of impressive film credits. Quiet, obedient, demure, frail Margot Frank in ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’; a pretty Hitchcock brunette Lil Mainwaring in ‘Marnie’.

Baker is not only a good Hollywood actor, but also a good teacher. She spent more than a decade teaching acting at the Academy of Art University (The largest private art and design school in the US), Baker was the executive director of the school’s Film and Television Academy and its Acting Academy. Her last film project was in 2013 for The Surrogate. She also took part in a documentary titled  A Face in the Dark: Diane Baker on Mirage.

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