Born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Brian Baker started acting at the age of 11, when he joined an organization called Cynekyd, where kids wrote and filmed their own movies. There, he distinguished himself as an actor and as a photographer. Brian starred in the Cynekyd film Whiplash in 1980. After graduating from William Tennent High in 1985, Brian attended Penn State, where he earned a degree in marketing. He then went to Chicago to resume his acting career. He studied at Second City in Chicago, worked as a stand-up comic, and joined the Seanachai Theatre. He also waited tables at John's Place in Lincoln Park. In 1999, Sprint was looking for an unknown actor to play the Sprint PCS man. Brian auditioned and got the part. He was originally set to appear in only five ads, but did many more, ending when Sprint merged with Nextel in 2005.
He has appeared in several movies, as well as TV series such as Cupid (1998), The Division (2001), The Drew Carey Show (2001), Providence (2001), The West Wing (2002), V.I.P. (2002), Hidden Hills (2002), Miss Match (2003), The Arrangement (2024), Chicago Fire (20225), and Chicago Med (2025).
On September 1, 2002, Brian married actress Terry Farrell. The two met at a gym that February and were married in Las Vegas. They have one child, a son. They divorced in 2015. Brian is six foot, one inches tall and is a former semi-pro football player. He also loves playing guitar.
