Biography
Barbara Babcock is an American actress. Born on 27 February 1937 in Fort Riley, Kansas, she spent much of her childhood in Japan, where her father, a US Army general, was stationed. She studied at the University of Lausanne, the University of Milan and Wellesley College.
Babcock began her career with guest appearances on numerous television series from the mid-1950s. She is known for her role as Nora Christie in the 1992 film Far and Away, Dorothy Jennings in the series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993–1998), and Grace Gardner in Hill Street Blues (1981–1987), for which she received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1981. Other credits include appearances in Space Cowboys (2000) and recurring roles in Dallas and Murder, She Wrote.
She was married to actor Jay Sheffield from 1962 to 1968.
