This award-winning stage-trained actor has gained a high profile because of his strong performance as the zealous policeman in the riveting drama series "Murder One" (ABC, 1995-96). Baker appeared in regional theater productions as a teenager and pursued a career after graduating from the prestigious Yale School of Drama. He scored onstage in such diverse roles as a yuppie (opposite fellow "Murder One" cast mate Patricia Clarkson) in "Eastern Standard" (1989)--for which he won a Theater World Award--and as the Prince in the modern verse play "La Bete" (1991). Baker won an Obie Award for his
