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This has only been for the past seven years.'
When she came out, she was already dating her future wife Nancy Locke, whom she married in 2013 after a romance that by that stage had lasted eight years.
Meredith continued acting on television in recent decades, appearing on series like Glee, The Young And The Restless, RuPaul's Drag U and Switched At Birth.
Her latest credit is the 2021 movie Genesis: The Future of Mankind Is Woman, an action comedy about a woman who is able to reproduce without sperm.
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In the political thriller, Baxter plays Debbie Sloan, the wife of Hugh Sloan (Stephen Collins), former treasurer for the Committee to Re-elect the President.
Her career progressed from strength to strength, such as an Emmy-nominated turn in the 1992 TV movie A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story, in which she played a real woman convicted of murdering her ex-husband and his new wife.
In 2009, after three divorces from men, Meredith went on the Today show and publicly revealed that she was attracted to women.
Meredith, Michael, Brian, Michael, Tina and Justine are pictured attending a 100th episode party for Family Ties, held in 1986
'I am a lesbian and it was a later-in-life recognition,' she revealed to host Matt Lauer.
I don't know what I was saying to myself but I was so angry."
Gross, who played Baxter's husband on "Family Ties" and sat by her side on "Oprah," said that for the first six years of the television show nobody knew anything.
Baxter eventually had a breakdown while Birney was working in Europe, she said.
"I was standing backstage rehearsing a sequence," she said.
She lost to fellow Family player Kristy McNichol (1977) and to Lou Grant actress Nancy Marchand (1978).
In her other family hit series, Gary David Goldberg’s NBC sitcom Family Ties (1982–1989), Baxter was cast as the liberal-minded Elyse Keaton – the wife of Michael Gross; and the mother of Michael J.
Fox, Justine Bateman, Tina Yothers, and Brian Bonsall.
Family Ties was nominated for four Primetime Emmys in the Outstanding Comedy Series category (1984–1987), but the only two cast members to be singled out were Michael J. Fox, nominated a total of five times* (1985–1989), including three wins as Best Actor in a Comedy Series (1986–1988), and two-time Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series nominee Justine Bateman (1986, 1987).
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Fox’s first nomination, in 1985, had him listed in the Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series category.
Jan. "Nobody knew on the show at all because it was important for me to maintain some separation."
Baxter said that she turned to alcohol to numb the pain, driving home from the set of "Family Ties" with a tumbler full of wine.
"Reckless.
She described herself as "mousey, quiet and retiring" -- the classic match for a dominating husband.
"What I got out of it eventually was I had to change my thinking," Baxter said. To do this we will link your MailOnline account with your Facebook account. Family and Family Ties actress Meredith Baxter (a.k.a. Baxter was cast in a minor role.
Pakula’s Oscar-nominated All the President’s Men (1976), starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman. So I had to change my thinking. Meredith Baxter, for her part, was never singled out for either the Golden Globes or the Emmys for her performance as the sitcom’s youthful, liberal-minded wife and mother.
Family & Family Ties
Created by Marnie and Cabaret screenwriter Jay Presson Allen, ABC’s serious-minded, Pasadena-set Family (1976–1980) featured Meredith Baxter (Birney) as Nancy Lawrence Maitland – the daughter of caring, middle-class parents James Broderick and Sada Thompson; the sister of sensitive Gary Frank and tomboyish Kristy McNichol; and the estranged (eventually former) wife of adulterer John Rubinstein.
Family earned Baxter two back-to-back Primetime Emmy nominations in the Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series category.
Anne Baxter sounded like she actually could be my mother. Baxter says she began dating women seven years ago.
Beating the tabloids
She decided to open up now because supermarket and online tabloids recently got hold of a story about her – accompanied by a female friend – taking part in a lesbian cruise.
"I do recall thinking, 'I'd better not get up because he's going to hit me again.' "
She writes that she coped with the marital violence by drinking heavily, but has been sober since 1990.
Birney was her former co-star on the television show, "Bridget Loves Bernie," which ran from 1972-73.
2013 update: Meredith Baxter and Nancy Locke were married in December 2013 in Los Angeles.
Two years earlier, Baxter claimed that she had been emotionally and physically abused by then husband David Birney – who denied the accusations, calling the charges “an appalling abuse of the truth.”
Michael Gross, Michael J.
Fox, Justine Bateman, Tina Yothers, Brian Bonsall, and Meredith Baxter Family Ties image: NBC.
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80s sitcom mom who later came out as a lesbian is unrecognizable at 77...
We didn't know because she kept her mouth shut."
"It was the first time that I kind of unloaded and told him everything that had been going on," said Baxter.
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As for the NBC sitcom itself, Family Ties was shortlisted for three Golden Globes (1985–1987). Despite Turner’s billing, the actual leads in this melodrama about (half-)incest are, as half-siblings, Scott Hylands and Meredith Baxter (billed as Meredith Baxter Birney; she was television actor David Birney’s wife between 1974–1989).
More recently, Baxter was featured in Lorraine Senna’s Paradise, Texas (2005), a little-seen indie in which she plays the neglected wife of has-been actor Timothy Bottoms (The Last Picture Show, Texasville).
That same year, she was excellent in a supporting role in George Bamber’s gay-themed comedy The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green, playing the no-nonsense mother of the titular social misfit (brought to life by Daniel Letterle).
Television
On television, Meredith Baxter – oftentimes billed as Meredith Baxter Birney (sometimes with a hyphen) – has made countless guest appearances in multiple series (The Love Boat, 7th Heaven, Brothers & Sisters), and has starred in a number of television films and miniseries, including:
- David Lowell Rich’s Little Women (1978), as Meg March, with Susan Dey, Ann Dusenberry, and Eve Plumb as her sisters; Best Actress Oscar nominee Dorothy McGuire (Gentleman’s Agreement, 1947) as their mother; Best Actress Oscar winner Greer Garson (Mrs.
During the run of Family Ties, Meredith conceived twins by her then-husband David Birney, so a pregnancy was written into the show for her character and the Keatons acquired another son called Andy, played by child actor Brian Bosnell.
The sitcom ran for seven seasons from 1982 to 1989, garnering a devoted viewership and winning five Emmys, three of which were awarded to Michael.
And she’d won an Academy Award.” (Italics in the original.)
Meredith Baxter husbands & wife
Besides David Birney, with whom she was featured in the flop 1972 TV series Bridget Loves Bernie, Meredith Baxter had two other husbands: actor and sometime screenwriter Michael Blodgett (as an actor: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, The Carey Treatment), who died at age 68 in November 2007, and actor/costumer/wardrobe supervisor Robert Lewis Bush (as an actor, Village of the Damned; as a costumer, They Live – both films directed by John Carpenter).
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Meredith Baxter mentions Anne Baxter in her 2010 autobiography Untied: A Memoir of Family, Fame, and Floundering, saying that, in an effort to be popular at school, she claimed that the All About Eve and The Ten Commandments actress was her mother: “No one recognized the name Whitney Blake. I didn't know I had a choice.