Meredith Baxter

Meredith Baxter

Meredith Ann Baxter is an American actress and producer. She is known for her roles on the CBS sitcom Bridget Loves Bernie, ABC drama series Family and the NBC sitcom Family Ties. Baxter is also a spokesperson for a cell-phone company and voiced the character of Elise Sr in Dan Vs.

About Meredith Baxter in brief

Summary Meredith BaxterMeredith Ann Baxter is an American actress and producer. She is known for her roles on the CBS sitcom Bridget Loves Bernie, ABC drama series Family and the NBC sitcom Family Ties. Baxter is also a spokesperson for a cell-phone company and voiced the character of Elise Sr. in Dan Vs. In April 2013, it was announced that Baxter would be in the season 4 finale of The Young and the Restless as Kathryn Kennish, the widowed mother of Maureen Newman’s character. She also made a guest appearance on the ABC series Freeform’s The Restless, as a mentor to Darren Criss’ character Chris Bliss. Baxter’s memoir, titled Untied, was published on March 1, 2011, and became a New York Times bestseller. She was the guest speaker at the 2008 Southern Commencement for National University in La Jolla, California, and was awarded an honorary doctoral degree from the university.

For her work on the television film My Breast, she received a special award for public awareness from the National Breast Cancer Coalition. In 1997, Baxter once again played the mother of a character played by Michael J. Fox, this time in two episodes of Spin City. She portrayed a psychopathic kidnapper in The Kissing Place and was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special for her work in A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story. She has also appeared in several commercials for Garden State Life Insurance Company, including one for Cellular, which she advertised as providing a cheaper alternative for senior citizens. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband, David Birney, and their two children, Brian and Emma. She and her husband have three children.