Blonde, attractive TV actress who has portrayed a wide range of characters from sympathetic sitcom mothers to psychopaths and bulimics, Meredith Baxter (who was billed as Meredith Baxter-Birney during her marriage to actor David Birney) became one of the queens of TV movies in the late 1980s and 90s before returning to sitcoms as the vice president of a school with "The Faculty" in 1996.

Baxter began her career playing girlfriends, sisters and wives while everyone around her seemed to be doing the real comedy and the real acting. She was Lee H. Montgomery's caring sister in the feature "Ben"