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Simon Baker
Known for: ActingSimon Baker (born July 30, 1969) 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.
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The Mentalist
El diable es vesteix de Prada
The Guardian
The Ring 2
Scarpetta
L.A. Confidential
Margin call
Land of the Dead
L'estret camí cap al nord profund
Sex and Death 101
as Roderick Blank
Red Planet
Els hi dono un any
Not Forgotten
Something New
Cavalca amb el diable
Es busca
as Stephen Barnes
El dimoni sota la pell
as Howard Hendricks
High Ground
Here and Now
El misteri del collaret
as Rétaux de Vilette
The Lodger
Women in Trouble
Respira
El petó de Judes
Limbo
as Travis Hurley
Sunset Strip
as Michael Scott
Blaze
as Luke