Philippa Baker, credited also as Phillippa Baker (born 1932)[3][1] is an Australian retired actress of radio, theatre and television in series and teleplays and telefilms (although appeared in a couple of features) Baker started her career in theatre and in the early 1950s, before spending five years appearing in the Gwen Meredith radio series Blue Hills, moving to the new medium of television she featured in televised plays, before taking several cameos in a few TV soap operas, primarily for Crawford Productions, However, she is best known for in the soap opera Number 96, in the 1970s as a comedy duo with Johnny Lockwood, as Russian deli worker Roma Lubinski, she later marries his character Aldo, but due to the series falling ratings, both characters were subsequently killed off in a bomb blast storyline.
[4] Baker appeared in television plays by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from 1958 onwards, and then featured in a few different roles in early Crawford Productions police procedurals Homicide and Division Four.
The writers decided to write out several high-profile characters, so in early September 1975 the show's famous bomb blast killed four residents including Roma and Aldo.
In 1976 Baker joined comedy series The Norman Gunston Show in a recurring sketch The Checkout Chicks, a parody of melodramatic soap operas set in a supermarket.
The Checkout Chicks featured other former Number 96 actors Abigail, Vivienne Garrett, Candy Raymond, Judy Lynne and Anne Louise Lambert.