Meredith Baxter or Meredith Baxter-Bernie is the name of a famous American actress and producer. She has received several Emmy nominations. Meredith can be seen in the television series "Family", "Family Ties" and many other projects.
Biography and personal life
Meredith Baxter was born June 21, 1947 in South Pasadena, California. Her mother is actress Whitney Blake. The first husband of the actress is actor Robert Lewis Bush. Their family had a son Theodore Justin Bush in 1967 and daughter Eva Whitney Bush in 1969. Then Meredith married the theater and film actor David Byrney. The couple had a daughter, Kathleen Jeanne Birney, and twins Peter and Molly. The third husband of the actress is Michael Blodgett. Meredith does not hide her bisexuality. In 2013, she got together with Nancy Locke.
Career
Early in her acting career, Meredith starred on the TV series Insight. She got the role of Julie. Insight ran from 1960 to 1984. Then she was invited to The Doris Day Show, where she played April. The next role of the actress is Paula in the "Medical Center". This drama series ran from 1969 to 1976. Then there were her roles in "Young Lawyers" (Gloria), The Interns (Millie), "The Partridge Family" (Jenny), "Owen Marshall, Counselor" (Anne Glover).
In the 1970s, Baxter starred in television series and dramas. She could be seen as Eva Garrison in Ben, as Bridget Fitzgerald Steinberg in Bridget Loves Bernie, as Jodie Dixon in Streets of San Francisco. She was then recruited to play Tracy in Stand Up and Settle, Jenny in Barnaby Jones, and Russell in The Young and the Reckless.
Meredith played Jenny in Doc Elliot, Carol Denver in The Stranger Who Looks Like Me, Liz Robson in Police Woman. She won the role of Linda Daves in The Night That Made America Panic and Mary Kingston in City of Angels.
Filmography
In the 1980s, Meredith received many invitations for a variety of roles. Among the films in which she participated were quite successful films, for example, "All the President's Men", where she reincarnated as Debbie Sloan, "Bitter and Sweet Love" (Patricia Peterson) and the series "Love Boat". In this melodrama, Baxter got the role of Francesca Randall. Successful for Meredith was the role of Meg March in "Little Women". Then there was her play in The Family Man, in which she became Mercedes Cole. Not without Baxter in the series "Ancestral Land". She appeared in it as Lauretta Pennington. The American Theater series, which has been running since 1981, gave her the opportunity to play Eva. In the famous TV series "Family Ties" Meredith got the role of Eliza Keaton. Also, the filmography of the actress was added to the series "CBS School Holidays Special", in which she played Paulo Hensen.
The 1990s began for the actress with such interesting projects as the TV movie A Place for Kisses, where she played Florence, Burning Bridges, in which she got the role of Hollinger, and the picture “The Kiss of Jezebel” with the character of Virginia De Leo. Then there were roles in "Pernicious Attraction" (Martha), "Maternal Justice" (Leela) and "Until Murder Do Us Part" (Betty).
During this period, especially successful films with the participation of Baxter were "Seventh Heaven" and "Twisted City". She played the main characters in the films "Darkness Before Dawn", "For the Love of Aaron", "Another Mountain", "After Jimmy" and "Mother's Revenge".
In the 2000s, Meredith starred in the films "Woman on Wednesdays", "Mother's Struggle for Justice", "Murder on the Orient Express", "Christmas Guest", "Aftermath", "Devil's Island", "Road to Heaven" and "Angel in the Family". Then she was offered roles in the video "Crash", "Dan against" and "They were mixed up in the hospital." She starred in the TV series Neighbors and Maria, the TV movie Naughty or the Good, and the film Shadow over Mesa. She later landed the role of Elaine in Reading, Writing and Romance, Alice in Stepmother, and Simone in Being Mary Jane. Also, the filmography of the actress was supplemented by the series "Finding Carter" and "Reanimation".
Producing
Meredith not only acts in films, but also produces films. In 1989, she worked in this capacity on the film "She Knows Too Much", in which she played the main role. Other roles have included actors such as Robert Urich, John Bennett Perry, Dennis Lipscom, Lawrence Pressman and Mills Watson. Her next work was the television movie "Darkness Before Dawn". The roles in the film were given to Stephen Lang, Gwyneth Walsh, L. Scott Caldwell, Chelsea Hertford and Bill Applebaum, and Meredith played the main character. In 1994, she co-executive produced My Breast, and a year later, Betrayed: A Story of Three Women.
Baxter has been featured on many shows, including Today, Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, Hollywood Squares, Rowan & Martin Hochs, and Good Morning America. She can also be seen on Entertainment Tonight, Live With Larry King, The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Pat Sayjack Show. Meredith has been featured on One-on-One with John Tash, The Rosie O'Donnell Show, E! True Hollywood Story, The Insider, Hell's Kitchen and Katie Griffin: My D-List Life.
During her acting career, Meredith has worked extensively with directors such as Harry Falk, James Sheldon, Ralph Senensky, Leo Penn, Jerry London and Michael Schultz. She was also invited to their films by Paul Stanley, Richard Keenon, Dick Lowry, Arthur Allan Seidelman and Peter Baldwin. Baxter has been seen several times in the paintings of Daniel Petrie, Glenn Jordan, Robert Douglas, Alpha Chellin, Charles S. Dubin and Mark Daniels.
