Meredith Baxter
Highest Rated: 94% All the President's Men (1976)
Lowest Rated: 30% The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green (2005)
Birthday: Jun 21, 1947
Birthplace: South Pasadena, California, USA
Meredith Baxter carved out a niche in the 1970s and 1980s as an easygoing, often-brainy, all-American blonde most prominently featured on NBC's popular sitcom, "Family Ties" (1982-89). Baxter arrived as a regular in millions of American households on the controversial sitcom, "Bridget Loves Bernie" (CBS, 1972-73) when she married her onscreen partner, David Birney, assuming her new stage name - Meredith Baxter-Birney - for much of her career. She went on to earn two Emmy Award nominations as the worldly older sister on the ABC drama "Family" (1976-1980) before landing her signature role as Elyse Keaton, the kindly abiding mother of Michael J. Fox's precocious young Republican, Alex P. Keaton, in "Family Ties." Baxter would make a second career as the centerpiece of soapy TV movies-of-the-week, highlighted by her Emmy-nominated performance as a notorious true-life convicted murderess in "A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story" (CBS, 1992) as well as a sequel soon after. Her onscreen trials would be reflected in her private battles with alcoholism and breast cancer and, more recently, her late-life realization she was a lesbian, coming out publicly in 2009 to brief media frenzy. Beyond her real-life foibles and her seemingly unabating movie-of-the-week travails, Baxter's pop cultural imprint would ever remain the sweet-natured Midwestern mom Elise Keaton, who taught Americans long before it was a major social issue, that family could always trump political division.
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Meredith Baxter
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Christmas on the Vine | Carla Kilgore (Character) | - | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Undateable John | Beatrice - John's Mother (Character) | - | 2019 |
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Becoming Santa | Mrs. Claus (Character) | - | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Reading, Writing & Romance | Elaine (Character) | - | 2013 |
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Shadow on the Mesa | Emily Rawlins (Character) | - | 2013 |
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Naughty or Nice | Carol Kringle (Character) | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Raid of the Rainbow Lounge | Narrator | - | 2012 |
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Airline Disaster | President Harriet Franklin (Character) | - | 2010 |
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Bound by a Secret | Ida Mae (Character) | - | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Paradise, Texas | Liz Cameron (Character) | - | 2005 |
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The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green | Harper Green (Character) | $152.8K | 2005 |
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Angel in the Family | Lorraine (Character) | - | 2004 |
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Aftermath | Carol (Character) | - | 2003 |
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Devil's Pond | Kate (Character) | - | 2003 |
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A Christmas Visitor | Carol Boyajian (Character) | - | 2002 |
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A Mother's Fight for Justice | Terry Stone (Character) | - | 2001 |
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Murder on the Orient Express | Mrs. Caroline Hubbard (Character) | - | 2001 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Wednesday Woman | Muriel Davidson (Character) | - | 2000 |
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Down Will Come Baby | Leah Garr (Character) | - | 1999 |
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Holy Joe | Annie Cass (Character) | - | 1999 |
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Miracle on the 17th Green | Unknown (Character) | - | 1999 |
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Miracle in the Woods | Sarah Weatherby (Character) | - | 1997 |
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The Inheritance | Beatrice Hamilton (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dog's Best Friend | Cow (Voice) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mary Higgins Clark's Let Me Call You Sweetheart | D.A. Kerry McGrath (Character) | - | 1997 |
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After Jimmy | Maggie Stapp (Character) | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Betrayed: A Story of Three Women | Amanda Nelson (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | One More Mountain | Margaret Reed (Character) | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Breast | Joyce Wadler (Character) | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | For the Love of Aaron | Margaret Gibson (Character) | - | 1993 |
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Darkness Before Dawn | Mary Ann Guard (Character) | - | 1993 |
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Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter | Betty Broderick (Character) | - | 1992 |
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A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story | Betty Broderick (Character) | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bump in the Night | Martha "Red" Tierney (Character) | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Mother's Justice | Lila (Character) | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Burning Bridges | Lynn Hollinger (Character) | - | 1990 |
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The Kissing Place | Florence Tulane (Character) | - | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jezebel's Kiss | Virginia De Leo (Character) | - | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | She Knows Too Much | Samantha White (Character) | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Winnie | Winnie (Character) | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Long Journey Home | Maura Wells (Character) | - | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kate's Secret | Kate Stark (Character) | - | 1986 |
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The Rape of Richard Beck | Barbara McKee (Character) | - | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Family Ties Vacation | Elyse Keaton (Character) | - | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Take Your Best Shot | Carol Marriner (Character) | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Two Lives of Carol Letner | Carol Letner (Character) | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Family Man | Mercedes Cole (Character) | - | 1979 |
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Little Women | Meg March (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Us Against the World | Sunny (Character) | - | 1977 |
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All the President's Men | Debbie Sloan (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Terror in the Night | Unknown (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The November Plan | Mary Kingston (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Impostor | Julie Watson (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Night That Panicked America | Linda Davis (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Target Risk | Linda Flayly (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Invasion of Carol Enders | Carol Enders (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Stranger Who Looks Like Me | Joanne Denver (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Cat Creature | Rena Carter (Character) | - | 1973 |
60% |
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Ben | Eve Garrison (Character) | - | 1972 |
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No Score Yet | 82% | Code Black | Joanna (Guest Star) | 2016 |
No Score Yet | 63% | Hell's Kitchen | Guest | 2016 |
No Score Yet | 82% | Switched at Birth | Bonnie (Guest Star) | 2012 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Young and the Restless | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Instant Mom | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2014 |
31% | 82% | The Neighbors | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Doctors | Guest | 2013 |
70% | 72% | Glee | Liz Stevens (Guest Star) | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Talk | Guest | 2011 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Wendy Williams Show | Guest | 2012 |
No Score Yet | 64% | Family Guy | Elyse Keaton (Guest Voice) | 2009 2011 |
32% | No Score Yet | Brothers | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2009 |
No Score Yet | 95% | Cold Case | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2006-2007 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What About Brian | Frankie (Guest Star) | 2007 |
79% | 85% | Brothers & Sisters | Margaret Packard (Guest Star) | 2006 |
83% | 84% | The Closer | Congresswoman Simmons (Guest Star) | 2005 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Half & Half | Unknown (Character) | 2004 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 7th Heaven | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2003 |
68% | No Score Yet | Spin City | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1997 |
14% | No Score Yet | The Faculty |
Flynn Sullivan (Character), Executive Producer |
1996 |
No Score Yet | 88% | Family Ties | Elyse Keaton (Character) | 1982-1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Family | Nancy Lawrence Maitland (Character) | 1976-1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Love Boat | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Police Woman | Liz Robson (Guest Star) | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | McMillan and Wife | Faye Leonard (Guest Star) | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Streets of San Francisco | Jodi Dixon (Guest Star) | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Barnaby Jones | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bridget Loves Bernie | Bridget Fitzgerald Steinberg (Character) | 1972-1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In | Guest | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Partridge Family | Jenny (Guest Star) | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Doris Day Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Interns | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1971 |