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In 1981, Babcock received critical acclaim for playing Grace Gardner in the NBC police drama series Hill Street Blues. She won the 1981 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her work on Hill Street Blues. She appeared in 17 episodes from 1981 to 1987.
Grace Gardner (Barbara Babcock, 1981–85) The widow of Chief of Detectives Sam Gardner, Grace is hired to improve the appearance of the Hill Street stationhouse and immediately falls for Phil Esterhaus. Her erotic desires seem to know no end and, even in public, she sometimes appears to be restraining the throes of passion.
From the early 60s, Babcock made guest appearances in numerous television series. She ultimately became best known for her Emmy Award-winning performance as the over-amorous Grace Gardner in NBC's Hill Street Blues (1981) and as pioneer newspaper editor Dorothy Jennings in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993) (a regular role, lasting from 1993 to ...
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Barbara Babcock. Barbara is most men's fantasy of a mature mistress. She was already in her mid forties, when she graced the Hill with her sensual presence. She could still to be found on People magazine's '50 most beautiful people in the world' list, in 1994. She now lives near Cork in Ireland.
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Aug 9, 2021 · Somehow, fans of ”Hill Street Blues” knew that Grace (played by Barbara Babcock) would be the death of him, and, sure enough, after the sad demise of actor Michael Conrad in the middle of...
Apr 16, 1982 · LOS ANGELES (AP) - On NBC’s "Hill Street Blues" Barbara Babcock plays television’s most outrageous femme fatale, Grace Gardner, who’s into leather sheets and hot oil massages. The Emmy Award-winning actress might be just as intriguing as the character she plays, but she’s anything but a vamp.
