Becky Ann Baker

Actor Feb 17 (age 73) Fort Knox, Kentucky, USA 1985–2026 (41 year career)

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Biography

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), H…

Known For

Film

Men in Black

Mrs. Redgick

Film

Spider-Man 3

Mrs. Stacy

Film

War of the Worlds

Disaster Relief Volunteer

Film

Jacob's Ladder

Nurse

Film

Freaks and Geeks

Jean Weir

Film

The Half of It

Mrs. Geselschap

Film

A Simple Plan

Nancy Chambers

Film

Two Weeks Notice

RV Woman

Filmography

Acting (96)

Movies (53)

Starbright

as Teresa

Tow

as Debbie

Our Hero, Balthazar

as Elaine

Ella McCay

as Ryan's Mother

Jackpot!

as Sweet Irene

All Happy Families

as Sue Landry

Outpost

as Bertha

Alone Together

as Jan

Holler

as Linda

Off Broadway

as Betty Rytting

The Half of It

as Mrs. Geselschap

Nightfire

as Diane Rogers

The Chaperone

as Lois

After Class

as Mary

On Our Way

as Mom

Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary

as Self

Table 19

as Carol Millner

The End of the Tour

as Bookstore Manager

23 Blast

as Patty Wheatley

The Discoverers

as Mary

Hope Springs

as Cora, The Waitress

Nights in Rodanthe

as Dot

Spider-Man 3

as Mrs. Stacy

Spinning Into Butter

as Ruby

The Night Listener

as Waitress

Gretchen

as Lori Finkle

Death of a President

as Eleanor Drake

The Exonerated

as Defense Attorney

War of the Worlds

as Disaster Relief Volunteer

6.5

Stay

2005

as Paramedic #1 / Butch Cook

6.6

Stealing Martin Lane

2005

as Winifred Jones

Two Weeks Notice

2002

as RV Woman

6.4

The Confession

1999

as Nurse Jeanine Carrounbois

A Simple Plan

as Nancy Chambers

Celebrity

as Glenwood High Alumna - Doris

Men in Black

as Mrs. Redgick

In & Out

as Darlene

White Squall

as Ms. Boyde

The Siege at Ruby Ridge

as Elizabeth

I'm Not Rappaport

as Nurse

Sabrina

as Linda

Unstrung Heroes

as Mrs. Harris

Lorenzo's Oil

as Pellerman's Secretary

That Night

as Mrs. Bell

Jacob's Ladder

as Nurse

Blue Steel

as Nurse #1

Come See the Paradise

as Marge McGurn

She Said No

as Gail

Full Moon in Blue Water

1988

as Dorothy

6.0

In the Line of Duty: The F.B.I. Murders

as Carol Ann Matix

Agent on Ice

as Mrs. Donnelli

The Protector

as Samantha Alexander

6.0

There She Goes

Television (43)

CIA

as Mrs. Goodman

The Beast in Me

as FBI Supervisor

Crutch

as Kathy

Only Murders in the Building Official Podcast

2025

as Self

Elsbeth

as Judith

Would I Lie to You?

as Self

The Resort

as Jan

Only Murders in the Building

as Linda

The Equalizer

Ted Lasso

as Dottie Lasso

Hunters

as Juanita Kreps

Little Voice

as Elaine

Little America

as Mrs. Wren

Social Distance

as Carolyn Currier

New Amsterdam

as Gwen Bennett

Cultureshock

as Self

The Good Fight

as Alma Hoff

Brockmire

as Jean Brockmire Glasscock

6.8

Big Little Lies

2017

as Judge Marylin Cipriani

Billions

as Brenda

Younger

as Bronwyn Madigan

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

as Stacey

Gotham

as Marge

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

2014

as Voice Over (voice)

Madam Secretary

as Frieda Schulz

The Blacklist

as Judge Roberta Wilkins

Elementary

as Pam

Girls

as Loreen Horvath

Smash

as Mrs. Cartwright

Person of Interest

as Erica Schmidt

The Good Wife

as Alma Hoff

Kings

as Jessie Shepherd

Conviction

as Deborah Cole

Life As We Know It

as Amanda Connor

Wonderland

as Dr. Reeples

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Mrs. Brice

Freaks and Geeks

as Jean Weir

Storm of the Century

as Ursula Godsoe

Sex and the City

as Betsy

Star Trek: Voyager

as Ritual Guide

Frasier

as Marge

Law & Order

as Susan Simels

L.A. Law

as Melinda Garrett