Philippa Baker (actress)

Philippa Baker, credited also as Phillippa Baker (born 1932) is an Australian retired actress of radio, theatre and television in series and teleplays and telefilms (although appeared in a couple of features)

Baker started her career in theatre and in the early 1950s, before spending five years appearing in the Gwen Meredith radio series Blue Hills, moving to the new medium of television she featured in televised plays, before taking several cameos in a few TV soap operas, primarily for Crawford Productions,

However, she is best known for in the soap opera Number 96, in the 1970s as a comedy duo with Johnny Lockwood, as Russian deli worker Roma Lubinski, she later marries his character Aldo, but due to the series falling ratings, both characters were subsequently killed off in a bomb blast storyline. Baker and Lockwood also featured in the film version in 1974.

She played Dame Enid Lyons in the miniseries True Believers, in 1988.

Baker post-96 had several small role's in telmovies and miniseries, but did however appear in the Yahoo Serious film Young Einstein in 1988, in a cameo as Freud's mum. She left the acting industry the following year in 1989, after more than 35 years of performing, returning to her regular day work as a librarian until officially retiring.