Scott Thompson Baker (born September 15, 1960) is an American

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actor, from

Golden Valley, Minnesota Golden Valley is a western and first-ring suburb of Minneapolis in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. The city is mostly residential and is bordered by U.S. Highway 12 (Interstate 394). Over 15% of the city is parks or nature reserves. ...

. Some of his most notable roles are Colton Shore on '' General Hospital'', Craig Lawson on ''

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'', and Connor Davis on ''

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''.

Life and career

Baker was born in

. He was educated at

Oral Roberts University Oral Roberts University (ORU) is a private evangelical university in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Founded in 1963, the university is named after its founder, evangelist Oral Roberts. Sitting on a campus, ORU offers over 70 undergraduate degree progra ...

and the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

. He was married to Leilani Baker on January 27, 1990; their marriage produced two children, Thane and Jaden. After he and Leilani divorced, he was married to Maria Baker on June 17, 2007. Baker's professional acting career began at the

Guthrie Theatre The Guthrie Theater, founded in 1963, is a center for theater performance, production, education, and professional training in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The concept of the theater was born in 1959 in a series of discussions between Sir Tyrone Gut ...

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, where he starred in roles such as ''A Christmas Carol'', ''Peer Gynt'', ''Hamlet'' and ''The Sound of Music''. In the 1980s, after winning Star Search in 1985, Baker took up the role of Colton Shore, on the

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'' General Hospital'', which he held for three years. For a year, he played Craig Lawson on ''

'', and then for seven years played Connor Davis on ''

''. He also starred in the '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' episode "

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" as Kudak'Etan. In 1989, Scott Thompson Baker won the

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for Outstanding Male Newcomer, for his role as Colton in '' General Hospital''. He also received two nominations in 1990, for Outstanding Super Couple: Daytime (shared with

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) and Outstanding Hero: Daytime, for the same role. However, he lost to

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, as Paul in ''

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'', and

A Martinez Adolfo Larrue Martínez III (born September 27, 1948) is an American actor and singer with roles in the daytime soap operas '' Santa Barbara'', '' General Hospital'', '' One Life to Live'', ''The Bold and the Beautiful'', and ''Days of Our Live ...

and

Marcy Walker Marcy Lynn Walker (born November 26, 1961), also known as Marcy Smith, is an American youth minister and former actress known for her television appearances on daytime soap operas. Her most famous roles are those of Liza Colby on ''All My Chi ...

, for Cruz and Eden in '' Santa Barbara''.Official Soap Opera Digest website's page for 1990 awards
Retrieved on December 3rd, 2008.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Baker, Scott Thompson 1960 births Living people People from Golden Valley, Minnesota Oral Roberts University alumni University of Minnesota alumni 20th-century American male actors