High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rae Baker (born 1974 in Southampton, Hampshire), is an English actress. Born to a carpenter father, her brother Kevin is an electronics engineer. Always tall as a child, she took private piano and singing lessons to improve her soprano voice, and aged 13 she joined the local Gilbert and Sullivan repertory company in Southampton, Southampton Operatic Society and was then spotted for the National Youth Music Theatre. Baker then trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London funded by a personal bursary from Cameron Mackintosh, and holds a Fight Certificate from the British Society of Fight Direction.