MEREDITH BAXTER BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
Meredith Baxter was born on June 21st, 1947 in South Pasadena, California with the middle name Ann to Whitney Blake and Tom Baxter. Many know of her from her role portraying Elyse Keaton, Michael J. Fox's mother on the television series, "Family Ties" (1982-1989) and also starring Michael Gross, Justine Bateman, Brian Bonsall and Tina Yothers.
Being raised in California and born into a family involved in the industry, her career as an actress began after graduating from Hollywood Hills High School. Some of her early appearances were on the television series, "The Young Lawyers", "The Doris Day Show" and "The Partridge Family". Then in 1972, her first substantial role was on the television series, "Bridget Loves Bernie" with David Birney.
Along with working in television she has also appeared on such films as, "Ben" (1972) co-starring Lee Montgomery, Arthur O'Connell, Kenneth Tobey, Rosemary Murphy and Joseph Campanella and "Stand Up and Be Counted" (1972) starring with Jacqueline Bisset, Stella Stevens and Steve Lawrence, "Bittersweet Love" (1976) starring alongside Lana Turner, Robert Lansing, Celeste Holm, Robert Alda and Scott Hylands, "All the President's Men" (1976) starring Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Robards, Jack Warden, Hal Holbrook, Jane Alexander and Martin Balsam. As her career progressed, she alternated between television roles, film and television movies. Some of her more well known work includes her appearance on the television movie, "Kate's Secret" (1986) co-starring Ben Masters, Tracy Nelson, Georgann Johnson, Shari Belafonte, Leslie Bevis, Mackenzie Phillips and Edward Asner, followed by a nomination for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special for her work in 1992 on, "A Women Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story" also starring Stephen Collins, Lori Hallier, Christine Jansen, Debra Jo Rapp, Kelli Williams, Stephen Root, Ralph Bruneau, Clayton Landey, Jandi Swanson, Katherine Cortez, Tricia O'Neil, Aaron Freeman, Jordan Christopher Michael and Michelle Johnson.
Other honors she has received throughout her career include a Daytime Emmy Award in 1994 for her role on the television movie, "Other Mothers". Other television movie credits include, "For the Love of Aaron" (1994) starring with Nick Mancuso, Keegan MacIntosh, John Kapelos and Malcolm Stewart, "One More Mountain" (1994) with Chris Cooper, Larry Drake and Robert Duncan McNeill, "My Breast" (1994) with Jamey Sheridan, James Sutorius and Sara Botsford and "The Faculty" (1994). She has also appeared on such television series as, "Cold Case", "Brothers and Sisters", "What About Brian" and "We Have to Stop Now".
In addition to her career as an actress, Baxter also founded the Meredith Baxter Foundation for Breast Cancer Research after becoming a successful breast cancer survivor. She has also created her own skin care line, Meredith Baxter Simple Works which she uses the profits to help find her foundation.
Most recently she has been seen on the television series, "Dan Vs.", "Switched at Birth" and the television movie, "Naughty Or Nice" (2012). In 2011 her memoir title, "Untied" was released to the public.
Meredith Baxter has been married a total of three times. Her first marriage was in 1966 to Robert Lewis Bush and together they had two children before the marriage came to an end in 1971. She then married David Birney in 1974 and had three more children during this union before ending their marriage in 1990. Her third time to marry was in 1995 to Michael Blodgett however by 2000, another marriage came to an end. In 2009, she came out to the public as a lesbian and currently resides with her partner Nancy Locke.
Filmography
2012 Naughty or Nice
2011-2012 Dan Vs.
2012 Switched at Birth
2009-2011 Family Guy
2010 Airline Disaster
2010 We Have to Stop Now
2009 Brothers
2009 Bound by a Secret
2008 The Onion Movie
2006-2007 Cold Case
2007 What About Brian
2006 Brothers & Sisters
2005 The Closer
2005 The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green
2005 Paradise, Texas
2004 Angel in the Family
2004 Half & Half
2003 7th Heaven
2003 Devil's Pond
2003 Aftermath
2002 A Christmas Visitor
2001 Murder on the Orient Express
2001 A Mother's Fight for Justice
2000 The Wednesday Woman
1999 Miracle on the 17th Green
1999 Down Will Come Baby
1999 Holy Joe
1999 Elevator Seeking
1997 Spin City
1997 Miracle in the Woods
1997 Let Me Call You Sweetheart
1997 The Inheritance
1997 Dog's Best Friend
1996 After Jimmy
1996 The Faculty
1995 Betrayed: A Story of Three Women
1995 The Faculty
1994 My Breast
1994 One More Mountain
1994 For the Love of Aaron
1993 CBS Schoolbreak Special
1993 Darkness Before Dawn
1992 Stolen Love
1992 Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter
1992 A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story
1991 A Mother's Justice
1991 Bump in the Night
1990 Jezebel's Kiss
1990 Burning Bridge
1990 The Kissing Place
1982-1989 Family Ties
1989 American Playhouse
1989 She Knows Too Much
1988 Winnie
1987 The Long Journey Home
1986 Kate's Secret
1985 Family Ties Vacation
1985 The Rape of Richard Beck
1982 Take Your Best Shot
1977-1982 The Love Boat
1981 The Two Lives of Carol Letner
1980 Beulah Land
1976-1980 Family
1979 The Family Man
1978 Little Women
1978 What Really Happened to the Class of '65?
1977 The November Plan
1976 Bittersweet Love
1976 Police Woman
1976 The Wide World of Mystery
1976 Standing Room Only
1976 All the President's Men
1976 City of Angels
1975 McMillan & Wife
1975 Medical Story
1975 The Night That Panicked America
1975 The Streets of San Francisco
1974-1975 Medical Center
1975 The Impostor
1975 Target Risk
1974 Young Love
1974 The Stranger Who Looks Like Me
1974 Barnaby Jones
1973 The Cat Creature
1973 Doc Elliot
1972-1973 Bridget Loves Bernie
1973 The Invasion of Carol Enders
1972 Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
1972 Ben
1972 Stand Up and Be Counted
1971 The Partridge Family
1971 The Doris Day Show
1971 The Young Lawyers
