Simon Baker

Known for ActingBorn 1969-07-30 (age 56)Launceston, Tasmania, Australia

Simon Baker (born July 30, 1969) is an Australian actor and director. In his television acting career, he is best known for his lead role in the CBS television series The Mentalist as Patrick Jane and as Nicholas Fallin in The Guardian. In his film acting career, he is best known for the lead role of Riley Denbo in Land of the Dead and Christian Thompson in the film adaptation of The Devil Wears Prada, based on the 2003 novel of the same name. Simon Baker was born to a high school English teacher, Elizabeth Labberton, and a groundskeeper/mechanic, Barry Baker, on 30 July 1969, in Launceston, Tasmania. He was raised as a Roman Catholic. His parents divorced while he was still young. His mother later married Tom Denny, a butcher. Simon Baker also has a sister, currently a doctor in Australia, and three younger half brothers. By 1972, the family had moved from Launceston to Ballina, New South Wales, where Baker's parents hoped to secure better paying jobs. In 1986, he graduated from Ballina High School as Simon Baker-Denny, after completing his primary school education at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Primary School, also in Ballina.Read more

Movies & web series

The Mentalist

Love from Ground Zero

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

L.A. Confidential

Boy Swallows Universe

The Devil Wears Prada

Conan

Smith

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

The Guardian

Margin Call

Scarpetta

Heartbreak High

Breath

The Kelly Clarkson Show

E Street

High Ground

Something New

Late Show with David Letterman

Ride with the Devil

Land of the Dead

Sex and Death 101

Limbo

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

The Killer Inside Me

The Ring Two

The Lodger

Roar

Red Planet

Judas Kiss

I Give It a Year

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

The Affair of the Necklace

Blaze

Here and Now

Most Wanted

Secret Men's Business

Women in Trouble

Not Forgotten

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Restaurant

Sunset Strip

Book of Love

The View

Live from Studio Five

Sweat

Klara and the Sun

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