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"
Starred in CBS sitcom "Bridget Loves Bernie", then married leading man David Birney
1973
TV-movie debut in the ABC thriller "The Cat Creature"
1974
Cast as a young adoptee seeking her birth mother in the ABC drama "The Stranger Who Looks Like Me"; real-life mother Whitney Blake cast as her on screen birth mother
