Regina Baff is an actress, who was nominated for a Tony

Tony Award

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...

 in 1974 for Veronica's Room.

Career

Regina Baff appeared in The West Side Waltz

The West Side Waltz

The West Side Waltz is a play by Ernest Thompson.The play focuses on Margaret Mary Elderdice, an aging, widowed pianist living in a dreary Upper West Side apartment, and her relationships with a prim, virginal violinist neighbor and the young companion who moves in for an extended stay.Thompson was...

with Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an American actress of film, stage, and television. In a career that spanned 62 years as a leading lady, she was best known for playing strong-willed, sophisticated women in both dramas and comedies...

. She also appeared on film, starring in Below the Belt about lady wrestlers (not the porno movie by the same title) and Road Movie, a film by Joseph Strick

Joseph Strick

Joseph Strick was an American director, producer and screenwriter.Born in Braddock, Pennsylvania, Strick briefly attended UCLA before enrolling in the Army during World War II. In the Army, he served as a cameraman in the Army Air Forces.In 1948, he and Irving Lerner produced Muscle Beach...

  about a truck hooker (not the Korean film by the same title). She also appeared in The Paper Chase, The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby (1974 film)

The Great Gatsby is a 1974 romantic drama film distributed by Newdon Productions and Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Jack Clayton and produced by David Merrick, from a screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola based on F...

, Who is Harry Kellerman, and why is he saying those terrible things about me?, and Escape from Alcatraz

Escape from Alcatraz (film)

Escape from Alcatraz is a 1979 American thriller film, directed by Don Siegel and starring Clint Eastwood. It dramatizes possibly the only successful escape attempt from the maximum security prison on Alcatraz Island. The film co-stars Fred Ward, and also features Patrick McGoohan as the...

. On television, she appeared in numerous situation comedies, including an episode of Taxi

Taxi (TV series)

Taxi was an American sitcom that originally aired from 1978 to 1982 on ABC and from 1982 to 1983 on NBC. The series, which won 18 Emmy Awards, including three for "Outstanding Comedy Series", focuses on the everyday lives of a handful of New York City taxi drivers and their abusive dispatcher...

 in which her character gave birth in the backseat of a taxi.

Personal life

Regina Baff has a Ph.D.

Doctor of Philosophy

Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated as Ph.D., PhD, D.Phil., or DPhil , in English-speaking countries, is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities...

 in psychology, and is sister of Ella Baff

Ella Baff

Ella Baff is the executive director of Jacob's Pillow, a dance performance space.She was awarded a Chevalier Medal of the Order of Arts and Letters. She is the sister of Regina Baff...

, director of Jacob's Pillow

Jacob's Pillow

Jacob’s Pillow Dance is a dance center, school and performance space located in Becket, Massachusetts, in the Berkshires. The organization is known for the oldest internationally acclaimed summer dance festival in the United States. The facility also includes a professional school and extensive...

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/15/arts/dance-at-jacob-s-pillow-scant-patience-with-the-pieties.html?pagewanted=all.

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