Acting
GenderMale
BirthdayJuly 29, 1969 (55 years old)
Place of BirthLaunceston, Tasmania, Australia
Simon Baker (born 30 July 1969, height 5' 9¾" (1,77 m)) is an Australian actor and director. In his television acting career, he is best known for his lead role in the CBS television series The Mentalist as Patrick Jane and as Nicholas Fallin in The Guardian. In his film acting career, he is best known for the lead role of Riley Denbo in Land of the Dead and Christian Thompson in the film adaptation of The Devil Wears Prada, based on the 2003 novel of the same name. Simon Baker was born to a high school English teacher, Elizabeth Labberton, and a groundskeeper/mechanic, Barry Baker, on 30 July 1969, in Launceston, Tasmania. He was raised as a Roman Catholic. His parents divorced while he was still young. His mother later married Tom Denny, a butcher. Simon Baker also has a sister, currently a doctor in Australia, and three younger half brothers. By 1972, the family had moved from Launceston to Ballina, New South Wales, where Baker's parents hoped to secure better paying jobs. In 1986, he graduated from Ballina High School as Simon Baker-Denny, after completing his primary school education at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Primary School, also in Ballina.
L.A. Confidential
Limbo
The Ring Two
Not Forgotten
Land of the Dead
The Key to Reserva
Ride with the Devil
Women in Trouble
Red Planet
Most Wanted
Sex and Death 101
The Killer Inside Me
The Lodger
Judas Kiss
Something New
Secret Men's Business
Margin Call
The Affair of the Necklace
Restaurant
Book of Love
I Give It a Year
Love from Ground Zero
The Devil Wears Prada
Klara and the Sun
Breath
Here and Now
High Ground
Blaze
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Live from Studio Five
Smith
The Mentalist
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Guardian
The View
Sweat
Heartbreak High
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
E Street
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Roar
Boy Swallows Universe
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Conan
Scarpetta