This classically attractive stage-trained performer has spent a significant portion of her film and TV career playing "bad girls" and other women of rather questionable virtue. Bakke began acting as a teen in local productions in her native Portland, OR before making the move to Los Angeles to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. After more stage work, Bakke entered films inauspiciously with a supporting role in the teen sex sequel "Hardbodies 2" (1986). This set the stage for her early feature career as she appeared a series of low-budget genre quickies geared toward video and cable. The reasonable spoof "Hot Shots! Part Deux" (1993) represented a breakthrough of sorts as Bakke played an initially sympathetic romantic interest of Charlie Sheen. The ho-hum actioner "Gunmen" (1994) found her supporting Christopher Lambert and Mario Van Peebles. Bakke was a likeable party girl in "Tales From the Crypt Presents Demon Knight" (1995) and barely registered amid the violent goings-on of "Under Siege 2: Dark Territory" (1995).

Bakke has fared better in TV with episodic guest shots and TV-movies. She had a brief stint as a regular on the Western "Ned Blessing: The Story of My Life and Times" (CBS, 1993) playing a beautiful "sportin' gal" called The Wren. Bakke's next assignment, the supernatural drama "American Gothic" (CBS, 1995), was at least a critical hit. She was well cast as Selena Coombs, perky school marm by day/slinky temptress by night and close confidant of a sinister sheriff. After a highly touted turn as Lana Turner in a pivotal scene in the noirish "L.A. Confidential" (1997), Bakke returned to series work as the mother of a teenager who becomes an undercover cop in the 1999 Fox drama "Ryan Caulfield: Year One".

  Leave No Trace (2004) .... Victoria Blake
Groom Lake (2002) .... Joyce
... aka The Visitor (USA)
Moving August (2002) .... Ginny Forster
Hot Rush (2002) .... Old Lady
"CSI: Crime Scene Investigation"
... aka C.S.I. (USA: short title)
... aka CSI: Las Vegas (USA: syndication title)
... aka CSI: Weekends (USA: promotional title)
... aka Experts, Les (Canada: French title)
- Burked (2001) TV Episode .... Bonnie Ritten
The Quickie (2001) .... Jane
... aka The Quickie (France)
"Dark Angel"
... aka James Cameron's Dark Angel (USA)
- Female Trouble (2001) TV Episode .... Dr. Adriana Vertes
"Popular"
- The News of My Death Has Been Greatly Exaggerated (2001) TV Episode .... Shaggy Louise Grout
Warm Texas Rain (2000) (V) .... Kim
Time Loves a Hero (2000) (V) .... Alice

"Ryan Caulfield: Year One" (1999) TV Series .... Mrs. Caulfield
"Charmed"
- The Power of Two (1999) TV Episode .... Soul Collector
Nobody Lives Forever (1998) (TV) .... Laurel Trevelyn
... aka Crimes of Passion: Edna Buchanan's Nobody Lives Forever (USA)
... aka Crimes of Passion: Nobody Lives Forever (USA: series title)
... aka Edna Buchanan's Nobody Lives Forever (USA)
The Fixer (1998) (TV) .... C.J.
Shelter (1998/I) .... Helena
L.A. Confidential (1997) .... Lana Turner
Trucks (1997) (TV) .... Hope
Frame by Frame (1996/I)
"American Gothic" (1995) TV Series .... Selena Coombs
Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995) .... Captain Linda Gilder
... aka Under Siege 2
Demon Knight (1995) .... Cordelia
... aka Demon Keeper
... aka Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight (USA: complete title)
Lone Justice 2 (1995) .... Wren
"The Adventures of Brisco County Jr."
... aka Brisco County Jr.
- Ned Zed (1994) TV Episode .... Frances McCabe
"Second Chances"
- Justifiable Jealousy (1994) TV Episode .... Lara Peterson
- Miss Friendly Santa Rita (1994) TV Episode .... Lara Peterson
Gunmen (1994) .... Maria
Twogether (1994) .... Allison McKenzie
Terminal Voyage (1994) .... Zinovitz
... aka Starquest (USA: TV title)
"Ned Blessing: The Story of My Life and Times" (1993) TV Series .... Wren
Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993) .... Michelle Rodham Huddleston
... aka Hot Shots! 2 (Australia)
Secrets (1992/II) (TV) .... Sandy Warwick
... aka Danielle Steel's 'Secrets'
"Jake and the Fatman"
- Come Closer to Me (1992) TV Episode .... Lori Menza
The Medium (1992)
... aka Medium Rare
"The Young Riders"
- The Peacemakers (1991) TV Episode .... Alice
"Father Dowling Mysteries"
... aka Father Dowling Investigates (UK)
- The Showgirl Mystery (1990) TV Episode .... Claudia Marshall
Solar Crisis (1990) .... Claire Beeson
... aka Kuraishisu niju-goju nen (Japan)
Stolen: One Husband (1990) (TV) .... Samantha
... aka I Want Him Back!

Ganheddo (1989) .... Texas Air Ranger Sgt. Nim
... aka Gunhed
Fist Fighter (1989) .... Ellen
... aka A puño libro (Spain)
... aka A puño limpio (Spain)
... aka Peleador a puño libro (Mexico)
Another Chance (1989) .... Sandy/Nurse#1
Nowhere to Run (1989) .... Joannie
Dangerous Love (1988) .... Chris
A Father's Homecoming (1988) (TV) .... Nurse Pitzer
Scavengers (1988) .... Kimberly Blake
Death Spa (1988) .... Laura Danvers
... aka Witch Bitch
"Star Trek: The Next Generation"
... aka Star Trek: TNG (USA: promotional abbreviation)
- Justice (1987) TV Episode .... Rivan
High Mountain Rangers (1987) (TV)
Fast Gun (1987) .... Julie Comstock
Medium Rare (1987)
Hardbodies 2 (1986) .... Morgan
Last Resort (1986) .... Veroneeka
... aka She Knew No Other Way