16 Facts About Sharon Baird

Sharon Baird, born August 16,1943 in Seattle, Washington, is an American actress, voice actress, singer, dancer and puppeteer who is best known for having been a Mouseketeer.

Sharon Baird has one younger brother, Jimmy, a former child actor.

Sharon Baird began dance lessons at age three and won a "Little Miss Washington" contest at five.

Sharon Baird's mother took her to California for the national competition and fell in love with the climate.

The family relocated to Los Angeles, California, where Baird continued her dance lessons with Louis da Pron, among others.

Sharon Baird appeared in her first film, Bloodhounds of Broadway, in 1950.

Sharon Baird did episodes of several different television shows, and an unbilled song-and-dance number with Dean Martin in Artists and Models, just before being selected for the Mickey Mouse Club.

Sharon Baird was among the most experienced of these professionals, and performed with the show's "Red Team", or first-string unit, for all three seasons of original programming.

Sharon Baird's specialty was tap, but she did other forms of dancing, as well as singing and acting on the show.

Sharon Baird briefly interrupted her education in May 1959 for a short performing tour of Australia with the Mouseketeers, then graduated from college in 1963 with degrees in mathematics and secretarial science.

In 1964, Sharon Baird married singer Dalton Lee Thomas, and, with a male friend of his, worked up a nightclub act called "Two Cats and a Mouse", which faded out, along with the marriage, by 1969.

Sharon Baird did rotoscoping work for Ralph Bakshi's late seventies film The Lord of the Rings.

Sharon Baird was the live-action model for the part of Frodo Baggins, for which she did not receive screen credit.

Sharon Baird then joined a smaller number of her colleagues in performing live shows at Disneyland on weekends for several years during the early 1980s.

In 1984, Sharon Baird appeared on stage in the comedy special Gallagher: Over Your Head, doing a tap dancing routine and assisting Gallagher during his famous Sledge-O-Matic routine.

Sharon Baird later relocated from Southern California to Reno, Nevada.