Barbara Babcock won an Emmy Award for her recurring role as Grace Gardner in the series Hill Street Blues. She was also a series regular in The Law and Harry McGraw, and has guest starred in Murder, She Wrote, Sisters, The Golden Girls, Perry Mason, Taxi, China Beach, Cheers, and Wings. She starred in the television films A Mother's Instinct, News at Eleven, Quarterback Princess, Salem's Lot, Stranger in the House, A Family for Joe and Steambath.
Babcock's feature film credits include starring roles in Far and Away, That Was Then, This Is Now, The Lords of Discipline, and Bang the Drum Slowly. She has also appeared in numerous regional stage productions.
Babcock was born in Fort Riley, Kansas and raised in Tokyo, where her father, an Army general, was stationed. In her spare time, she assists scientists on anthropological and archeological research expeditions in Africa and in the Amazon jungles of South America.
Her birth date is February 27.