- Born
- Height5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
- Mark Linn-Baker was born on June 17, 1954 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He is an actor and director, known for My Favorite Year (1982), Adam (2009) and Perfect Strangers (1986). He has been married to Christa Justus since December 29, 2012. He was previously married to Adrianne Lobel.
- SpousesChrista Justus(December 29, 2012 - present)Adrianne Lobel(1995 - 2009) (divorced, 1 child)
- His christened name is Mark Linn Baker (without the hyphen). Linn is actually his middle name, not part of his last name. When he joined the actors union, there already was a Mark Baker, so he combined his middle name with his last name. His father made up his middle name "Linn" in honor of Leonid Tolstoy.
- Appeared in My Favorite Year (1982) and Laughter on the 23rd Floor (2001), both based on the real-life writing teams for Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows (1950).
- Plays a former actor named Mark Linn-Baker on The Leftovers. One of his scenes is set in St. Louis, where Mark Linn-Baker was born.
- Studied drama at Yale.
- He appeared in the role of Hysterium in the 1995 Broadway stage production of 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum'.
- [during an outtake while filming Perfect Strangers] I know the line, I simply can't say it, it's not an unfamiliar problem.
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