After years of invites, the Australian actor finally agreed to appear on Who Do You Think You Are?, revealing both painful memories and some incredible relatives
The actor and director had recently returned to Australia after spending decades of his career in California, where he had lead roles in the hit television series The Mentalist and The Guardian. Since returning home, he has directed an adaptation of Tim Winton’s novel Breath, and more recently appeared inThe show’s latest invitation came at the right time for Baker. “I’ve seen the show before, and people have a really focused idea of what they wanted to get out of it,” he says.
A reunion would take place when Baker was 18 years old, but in the meantime, the family moved to the northern NSW beach community of Lennox Head, where Baker became an avid surfer. Revealing the story of his parents was “challenging”, he says. “I’m pretty shy … But there is a kind of psychological reason in why I became an actor. The initial desire when I was young was about connecting with people, the idea of seeing someone in a story on a screen that you could identify with, and it could help you understand feelings inside you that you didn’t necessarily know how to articulate.
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