Becky Ann Baker (born 17 February 1953; age 73) is an actress who played the Nechani guide in the Star Trek: Voyager third season episode "Sacred Ground".
Baker has also made guest appearances on L.A. Law (1992, starring Corbin Bernsen, with Barbara March, Michael Cumpsty, Terry O'Quinn, Lynne Thigpen, Lorinne Vozoff and Harley Venton), Frasier (1995, starring Kelsey Grammer), Sex and the City (starring Kim Cattrall), Oz (2003, starring Kirk Acevedo, with Joel Grey, Kevin Conway, Roxanne Hart and Reg E. Cathey), and Law & Order, and also had a recurring role on Life As we Know It. However, she is perhaps best known to TV audiences for her featured role as Jean Weir on Freaks and Geeks, which ran during the 1999-2000 season and has acquired a cult following. She also made an appearance in the supporting role of Nancy Chambers in A Simple Plan (1998), which garnered Baker a Blockbuster Entertainment Award as "Favorite Supporting Actress" in the suspense genre.
On Broadway, Baker performed several roles (and was understudy for a few others) in the original production of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas from 1978 through 1982. She also performed in the return engagement from March through July 1982. Her later Broadway productions included a 1988 revival of A Streetcar Named Desire, Titanic from 1997 through 1999, and Assassins in 2004.
After making her film debut in The Protector (1985), Baker went on to have a supporting role in Full Moon in Blue Water (1988, starring Terri Garr, with David Doty). In 1990, Baker appeared in Come See the Paradise, starring Tamlyn Tomita, with Star Trek: The Next Generation/Star Trek: Deep Space Nine actor Colm Meaney. Other films in which Baker has appeared include the 1986 action-drama Agent on Ice (with Andreas Katsulas and Thomas Kopache), Blue Steel (1990, starring Jamie Lee Curtis, with Clancy Brown, Louise Fletcher, Mary Mara, Lauren Tom and Mike Starr), Jacob's Ladder (1990, with Jason Alexander), Lorenzo's Oil (1992), Unstrung Heroes (1995, with Sam Alejan and Len Costanza), Sabrina (1995), I'm Not Rappaport (1996, with Josh Pais), Men in Black (1997, also featuring Carel Struycken and Sean Whalen), In & Out (1997, with Whoopi Goldberg), Celebrity (1998, co-starring Famke Janssen and Bebe Neuwirth), Two Weeks Notice (2002), and War of the Worlds (2005).
Baker had a role in Death of a President (2006), which involves the fictional assassination of US President George W. Bush. Michael Reilly Burke also had a role in this film. She also appeared in Spider-Man 3, in which she and James Cromwell played the parents of Gwen Stacy. The film also starred Kirsten Dunst, Robert Curtis Brown, and Baker's real-life husband Dylan Baker.