Barbara Babcock is an American character actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles as Grace Gardner on Hill Street Blues for which she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress—Drama Series in 1981 and her role as Dorothy Jennings on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1993. Although she was born in the United States, she spent a large part of her childhood in Tokyo, Japan, because her father Conrad Stanton Babcock, Jr. was a general in the United States Army. She learned to speak Japanese before English. She attended Miss Porter's... School and later Wellesley College, where she was a classmate of Ali McGraw. Babcock has appeared in several episodes of television series between 1956 and 1967. She appeared in Star Trek in 1966. In 1968 she made her debut on the big screen in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer western movie Day of the Evil Gun. After followed by roles in films Heaven with a Gun co-starring Glenn Ford, Bang the Drum Slowly, Chosen Survivors, The Black Marble, Back Roads and The Lords of Discipline. From 1978 to 1981 she played the role as Liz Craig on the CBS soap opera Dallas.
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