Mark Linn Baker

Mark LinnBaker is an American actor and director who played Benjy Stone in the film My Favorite Year and Larry Appleton in the television sitcom Perfect Strangers.

LinnBaker was born in St. Louis, Missouri. His mother, Joan, was a dancer and his father, William Nelson Baker, cofounded the Open Stage Theater in Hartford. He was graduated from Wethersfield High School in Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1972, and from Yale University in 1976 . He then attended the Yale School of Drama, receiving a MFA in Drama in 1979, and following that, found most of his early roles on stage.

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