Becky Ann Baker (née Gelke; born February 17, 1953) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Jean Weir on the NBC comedy-drama series Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000) and as Loreen Horvath on the HBO comedy-drama series Girls (2012–2017); she earned two Critics' Choice Television Award nominations and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for the latter. Baker's film credits include Jacob's Ladder (1990), In & Out (1997), A Simple Plan (1998), Stay (2005), Nights in Rodanthe (2008), Hope Springs (2012), Table 19 (2017), The Half of It (2020), and Holler (2020). Baker has been married to actor Dylan Baker since 1990. They have a daughter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Becky Ann Baker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• CIA — Mrs. Goodman
• 2026Our Hero, Balthazar — Elaine
• 2026Starbright — Teresa
• 2026Tow — Debbie
• Crutch — Kathy
• 2025Ella McCay — Ryan's Mom
• The Beast in Me — FBI Supervisor
• 2024All Happy Families — Sue Landry
• Elsbeth — Judith
• 2024Jackpot! — Sweet Irene
• 2023Outpost — Bertha
• 2022Alone Together — Jan
• The Resort — Jan
• 2021Holler — Linda
• 2021Off Broadway — Betty Rytting
• Only Murders in the Building — Linda
• The Equalizer
• Hunters — Juanita Kreps
• Little America — Mrs. Wren
• Little Voice — Elaine
• 2020Nightfire — Diane Rogers
• Social Distance — Carolyn Currier
• Ted Lasso — Dottie Lasso
• 2020The Half of It — Mrs. Geselschap
• 2019After Class — Mary
• 2019On Our Way — Mom
• 2019The Chaperone — Lois
• New Amsterdam — Gwen Bennett
• Big Little Lies — Judge Marylin Cipriani
• Brockmire — Jean Brockmire Glasscock
• Manhunt — Patricia Rudolph
• 2017Table 19 — Carol Millner
• The Good Fight — Alma Hoff
• Billions — Brenda
• 2015The End of the Tour — Bookstore Manager
• Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt — Stacey
• Younger — Bronwyn Madigan
• 201423 Blast — Patty Wheatley
• Gotham — Marge
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver — Voice Over (voice), Deborah
• Madam Secretary — Frieda Schulz
• 2014The Discoverers — Mary
• The Blacklist — Judge Roberta Wilkins
• Elementary — Pam
• Girls — Loreen Horvath
• 2012Hope Springs — Cora, The Waitress
• Smash — Mrs. Cartwright
• Person of Interest — Erica Schmidt
• Kings — Jessie Shepherd
• Nurse Jackie — Elaine
• 2009Spinning Into Butter — Ruby
• The Good Wife — Alma Hoff
• 2008Nights in Rodanthe — Dot
• 2007Spider-Man 3 — Mrs. Stacy
• Conviction — Deborah Cole
• 2006Death of a President — Eleanor Drake
• 2006Gretchen — Lori Finkle
• 2006The Exonerated — Defense Attorney
• 2006The Night Listener — Waitress
• 2005Stay — Paramedic #1 / Butch Cook
• 2005Stealing Martin Lane — Winifred Jones
• 2005War of the Worlds — Disaster Relief Volunteer
• 2004Assassins — Sara Jane Moore
• Life As We Know It — Amanda Connor
• 2002Two Weeks Notice — RV Woman
• Wonderland — Dr. Reeples
• Freaks and Geeks — Jean Weir
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Mrs. Brice, Vivienne Patton
• Storm of the Century — Ursula Godsoe
• 1999The Confession — Nurse Jeanine Carrounbois
• 1998A Simple Plan — Nancy Chambers
• 1998Celebrity — Glenwood High Alumna - Doris
• Sex and the City — Betsy
• 1997In & Out — Darlene
• 1997Men in Black — Mrs. Redgick
• 1996I'm Not Rappaport — Nurse
• 1996The Siege at Ruby Ridge — Elizabeth
• The Siege at Ruby Ridge — Elizabeth
• 1996White Squall — Ms. Boyde
• 1995Sabrina — Linda
• Star Trek: Voyager — Ritual Guide
• 1995Unstrung Heroes — Mrs. Harris
• Frasier — Marge
• 1992Lorenzo's Oil — Pellerman's Secretary
• 1992That Night — Mrs. Bell
• 1990Blue Steel — Nurse #1
• 1990Come See the Paradise — Marge McGurn
• 1990Jacob's Ladder — Nurse
• Law & Order — Susan Simels, Carolyn Walters
• 1990She Said No — Gail
• 1988Full Moon in Blue Water — Dorothy
• 1988In the Line of Duty: The F.B.I. Murders — Carol Ann Matix
• 1986Agent on Ice — Mrs. Donnelli
• L.A. Law — Melinda Garrett
• 1985The Protector — Samantha Alexander
• All My Children
• New England Toys
• There She Goes

Appearances as themselves (4)

• Only Murders in the Building: Official Podcast — Self
• Would I Lie to You? — Self
• Cultureshock — Self
• 2018Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary — Self