Meredith Ann Baxter was born on June 21,1947 and is an American actress and producer.
22 Facts About Meredith Baxter
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Meredith Baxter is known for her roles on the CBS sitcom Bridget Loves Bernie, ABC drama series Family and the NBC sitcom Family Ties.
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Meredith Baxter and her Family Ties co-star, Michael Gross, were both born on June 21,1947.
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Meredith Baxter was educated at James Monroe High School before transferring to Hollywood High School.
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Meredith Baxter got her first appearance in television in 1970 on an episode of The Partridge Family in its second season.
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Meredith Baxter later appeared in 1972 as one of the stars of Bridget Loves Bernie, a CBS television network situation comedy.
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Meredith Baxter played the role of Nancy Lawrence Maitland and received two Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Continuing Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.
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In 1982, Meredith Baxter landed the role of Elyse Keaton, the former flower child matriarch of the Keaton family on the NBC sitcom Family Ties.
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In 1986, during her time on Family Ties, Meredith Baxter garnered critical acclaim for her dramatic performance as Kate Stark in the NBC television film Kate's Secret, about a seemingly "perfect" suburban housewife and mother who is secretly suffering from bulimia nervosa.
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Meredith Baxter portrayed a psychopathic kidnapper in The Kissing Place and was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special for her work in A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story, based on the true story of Betty Broderick, a divorcee who was convicted of murder in the shooting of her ex-husband and his young wife.
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In 1997, Baxter played the mother of a character played by Michael J Fox, this time in two episodes of Spin City.
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Meredith Baxter was the guest speaker at the 2008 Southern Commencement for National University in La Jolla, California, and was awarded an honorary doctoral degree from the university.
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On March 1,2011, Meredith Baxter's memoir, titled Untied, was published.
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Meredith Baxter is a spokesperson for the senior mobile service provider Consumer Cellular.
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Meredith Baxter played the mother to "Stich" Raybourne and Kelly Andrews.
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Meredith Baxter has been married four times and has five children.
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On March 1,2011, while promoting a memoir, Meredith Baxter alleged that ex-husband David Birney had emotionally and physically abused her.
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Meredith Baxter says in a new book, Untied, that she was a victim of emotional and physical abuse.
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Meredith Baxter writes that she coped with the marital violence by drinking heavily, but has been sober since 1990.
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Meredith Baxter said that her work helped her cope and she did not share her personal story with others.
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The day after Meredith Baxter discussed Birney on the Today Show, she traveled to Chicago to appear on The Oprah Winfrey Show for further discussion of the topics covered in her memoir.
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Gross confirmed the assumption that Meredith Baxter had made throughout their seven years of working on the sitcom, that no one connected with the series had known or suspected that Meredith Baxter's husband was abusing her at the time.