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30 Facts About Dylan Baker

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Dylan Baker was born on October 7,1959 and is an American actor.

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Dylan Baker gained recognition for his roles in films such as Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Happiness, Thirteen Days, Road to Perdition, Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 3, Trick 'r Treat, Revolutionary Road, Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, and Selma.

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Dylan Baker made his directorial debut with the film 23 Blast in 2013.

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Dylan Baker was born in Syracuse, New York and raised in Lynchburg, Virginia.

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Dylan Baker began his acting career as a teenager in regional theater productions.

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Dylan Baker attended Holy Cross Regional Catholic School, went on to attend Darlington School, and graduated from the Georgetown Preparatory School in 1976.

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Dylan Baker attended the College of William and Mary in Virginia and later graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1980.

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Dylan Baker then received a Master's in Fine Arts from the Yale School of Drama, where he studied alongside Chris Noth and Patricia Clarkson.

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Dylan Baker won an Obie Award in 1986 for his performance in the off-Broadway play Not About Heroes.

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Dylan Baker's first recurring TV role was on Steven Bochco's highly acclaimed Murder One.

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Dylan Baker held a small role in Requiem for a Dream, where he played a doctor who sees Jared Leto's character with a severely infected, rotting arm.

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Dylan Baker played Dr Curt Connors in Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3.

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In 2009, Dylan Baker played William Cross in NBC's Kings, in which his wife Becky Ann Dylan Baker played Jessie Shepherd, the mother of protagonist David Shepherd.

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Dylan Baker guest starred in an episode of Monk, playing a theater critic in "Mr Monk and the Critic".

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Dylan Baker guest starred in the November 2010 House episode "A Pox on Our House".

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Dylan Baker guest starred in the season four finale of Burn Notice as Raines, an old spy friend of Michael's.

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Dylan Baker reprised the role in the season five premiere, and permitted his likeness to be used in the Burn Notice graphic novel "A New Day".

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Dylan Baker played Pashto-speaking CIA agent Jerry Boorman in season 4 of the TV series Damages.

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Dylan Baker guest-starred in "Upper West Side Story", an episode of the TV series White Collar.

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Dylan Baker had a recurring role as the father of Katharine McPhee's character Karen Cartwright on the NBC TV series Smash.

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Dylan Baker appeared in the USA Network miniseries Political Animals.

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Dylan Baker performed with Helen Mirren on Broadway in The Audience, a play that depicted meetings between Queen Elizabeth II and important historical figures.

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Dylan Baker portrays corrupt DEA Agent Bill Peterson in the seventh season on The Mentalist.

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In 2016, Dylan Baker had a memorable recurring role as deep-cover KGB agent William Crandall, a morally conflicted biological weapons expert, on Season 4 of FX series The Americans.

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In September 2017, it was announced that Dylan Baker would be joining the cast of the Showtime drama Homeland for the show's 7th season, as Sen.

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Dylan Baker starred in the 2020 series Hunters, in which his wife had a supporting role.

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Dylan Baker is a prolific narrator of audiobooks, from fiction to biographies to Argo.

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Dylan Baker received the 2002 Audie Award for Abridged Fiction for his reading of The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen.

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Dylan Baker married actress Becky Gelke, now known professionally as Becky Ann Dylan Baker, in 1990.

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On September 1,2015, Dylan Baker tried to save the life of his neighbor, Broadway and movie actress and dancer Vivien Eng, after her apartment caught fire in the New York City high-rise where they both lived at the time.