<Tr> <Th> Spouse (s) </Th> <Td> Jay Sheffield (m . 1962--1968) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Awards </Th> <Td> Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series 1981 Hill Street Blues </Td> </Tr> <P> Barbara Babcock (born February 27, 1937) is an American character actress . She is perhaps best known for her role as Grace Gardner on Hill Street Blues, for which she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress--Drama Series in 1981, and her role as Dorothy Jennings on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1993 . </P> <P> Although she was born in the United States, Babcock spent a large part of her childhood in Tokyo, Japan, where her father, U.S. Army Gen. Conrad Stanton Babcock, Jr., was stationed . She learned to speak Japanese before English . </P>

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