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Sarah Baker is an American actress best known for roles in TV shows like Go On and Louie as well as movies like The Campaign.

Life and career

Baker was born in the Washington, D.C. area and attended Robert E. Lee High School in Fairfax County, Virginia. After graduating from James Madison University with a double major in Theater and English, she moved to Atlanta, Georgia. There, she helped build Whole World Improv Theatre as a performer, and later as a teacher. Moving to Los Angeles, she continued to hone her improvisational and sketch comedy skills at The Groundlings.

In 2012, Baker appeared as Mitzi Huggins, wife of Zach Galifianakis' congressional candidate, along with Will Ferrell, in the comedy The Campaign. The Jay Roach-directed film is the highest grossing politically themed movie of all time.

On TV, Baker was also seen as series regular Sonia on the NBC comedy Go On, starring Matthew Perry, as a support group member dealing with the loss of her cat.

She also appeared as Vanessa on the FX show Louie.; this performance was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Guest Performer in a Comedy Series. Additionally, Entertainment Weekly nominated the performance for one of their annual "EWwy Awards." The performance was included on numerous year-end "best of" lists for 2014, including NPR's "50 Wonderful Things from 2014".

Other TV appearances have included guest and recurring roles on shows such as A to Z, Bob's Burgers, Bones, The Crazy Ones, In the Motherhood, Kath & Kim, Modern Family, The Office (U.S. version), Sean Saves the World, and more. Baker appears in the DVD/Blu-ray bonus scenes of the hit comedy Bridesmaids, as a nurse arguing with an injured Paul Rudd. Online, she was seen as Arabella, faithful servant to Megan Mullally in the Funny or Die video Home for Actresses.

In 2014, Baker had roles in two movies. The first, The Good Lie, marked her first role in a drama. The film, about the Lost Boys of Sudan, is directed by Philippe Falardeau (director of the Oscar-nominated Monsieur Lazhar), and stars Reese Witherspoon. The second, Tammy, is a comedy starring Melissa McCarthy, and directed by Ben Falcone.