Simon Baker

FavoritedFavorite
9.4
out of 10
Avg Rating: Superb
488 votes
  • Your Rating: 10
    "Perfect"
  • Your Rating: 9.5
    "Superb"
  • Your Rating: 9
    "Superb"
  • Your Rating: 8.5
    "Great"
  • Your Rating: 8
    "Great"
  • Your Rating: 7.5
    "Good"
  • Your Rating: 7
    "Good"
  • Your Rating: 6.5
    "Fair"
  • Your Rating: 6
    "Fair"
  • Your Rating: 5.5
    "Mediocre"
  • Your Rating: 5
    "Mediocre"
  • Your Rating: 4.5
    "Poor"
  • Your Rating: 4
    "Poor"
  • Your Rating: 3.5
    "Bad"
  • Your Rating: 3
    "Bad"
  • Your Rating: 2.5
    "Terrible"
  • Your Rating: 2
    "Terrible"
  • Your Rating: 1.5
    "Abysmal"
  • Your Rating: 1
    "Abysmal"
Rate Now!

Biography

Simon Baker was born to Catholic parents, high school English teacher Elizabeth Labberton and groundskeeper/mechanic Barry Baker, on July 30, 1969, in Launceston, Tasmania,…more

Born

7/30/1969, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia

Birth Name

Simon Baker-Denny

Gender

Male
  • Simon Baker in The Mentalist from
  • Simon Baker and Robin Tunney in The Ment...
  • Simon Baker in The Mentalist from
  • Simon Baker and Emmanuelle Chriqui in Th...
  • Simon Baker, Owain Yeoman, Tim Kang, Ama...
  • Simon Baker and Michael Rady in The Ment...

Credits

Trivia and Quotes

See All
  • Trivia

    ADD TRIVIA
    • He played a non-speaking part as the 'hero' of an homage to Alfred Hitchcock in a 2007 Freixnet Sparkling Wine commercial featuring director Martin Scorsese.
    • He met his wife in a Sydney pub in 1991 . At the time he had a girlfriend but they met again six months later and started dating.
    • In 1991, he was listed as one of the "50 Coolest Guys Around" by Dolly magazine. In 2002, he was dubbed one of People's Magazine "50 Most Beautiful People." In 2005, he became one of the "100 People in Hollywood You Need to Know," according to Fade In magazine.
  • Quotes

    ADD QUOTES
    • (on maintaining an American accent) Simon Baker: It's a bit tricky. You have to keep on top of the accent. Sometimes you can slip back. What happens is you develop quite a good ear for yourself. I can hear when it's flat. But it's not easy. It's not necessarily a technical problem, it's trying to act at the same time, to make it be truthful and honest and come from deep within you, and come out of your mouth in a different way.
    • (on changing his name back to Baker) Simon Baker: There was nothing Hollywood about me changing my name. It was about wanting to find out where you fit in the world and where you come from. A lot of that became more potent for me when I was about to become a father myself. So that was the beginning of the saga and it took me to 30 to change back to Baker. It was really a process of letting go a lot of emotional baggage and guilt and all that sort of stuff and realising I am of my own self who I am. So it was going full circle. Who you are and the moments that you have just before you go to sleep-if you're at peace in those moments, then nothing else matters
    • (on his character in the Tv series "The Guardian") Simon Baker: I like the fact that he's imperfect, which is like everyone. Everyone's a bit imperfect in his own way. He's imperfect in an interesting way. He means well and wants to be a good person, I just think he's overcoming a lot of his own baggage. That's what drew me to it. It didn't seem usual. It seemed like a throwback to a period where we used to have leading characters that weren't genetically, spiritually perfect. Remember those days? Leading men were regular guys, someone you could identify with. Steve McQueen was a regular guy. Charles Bronson was a regular guy. Clint Eastwood's a regular guy.
More
Less