Christine Baranski
Christine Baranski was born in Buffalo, New York, United States on May 2nd, 1952 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 71, Christine Baranski biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Christine Jane Baranski (born May 2, 1952) is an American actress, singer, and producer.
She is a 15-time Emmy Award winner, first receiving the award for her appearance as Maryanne Thorpe in the sitcom Cybill (1995–98).
Baranski has been recognized for her role as Diane Lockhart in the legal drama series The Good Wife (2009–2016) and its sequel series The Good Fight (2017–present), as well as her recurring role as Dr. Judith.
Beverly Hofstadter appeared on the sitcom The Big Bang Theory (2009–2019), for which she has received four Emmy nominations.
She is also known for her appearances in numerous hit television films, including her portrayal of Kate in To Dance with the White Dog (1993), Prunella Stickler in Eloise, and Eloise at Christmastime (both 2003), and Amanda in Who Is Simon Miller. (2011). In a Play for the original Broadway performances of The Real Thing in 1984 and 1989, Baranski received two Tony Awards for Best Featured Actress.
Hide and Seek (1980), Hurlyburly (1984), The House of Blue Leaves (1986), Nick & Nora (1991), and Boeing Boeing (2008).
Baranski has appeared in many films, including 91 Weeks (1986), Legal Eagles (1990), Reversal of Fortune (1990), Addams Family Values (1993), Bowfinger (1999), Dr.
Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas 2000, Chicago (2002), Mamma Mia! The Bounty Hunter (2010), Into the Woods (2014), A Bad Moms Christmas (2017), and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018).
Early life and education
Baranski was born in Buffalo, New York, the daughter of Virginia (née Mazurowska) and Lucien Baranski, who edited a Polish-language newspaper. Michael J. Baranski (1949–1998), an advertising executive and who died at the age of 48, was she had an older brother. She is of Polish descent and her grandparents were stage actors in Poland before emigrating to the United States. Baranski was raised in a heavily Polish and Roman Catholic neighborhood in Cheektowaga's southwest suburb, where she attended high school at the Villa Maria Academy. She then attended Juilliard School in New York City (Drama Division Group 3: 1970–1974), where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1974.
Personal life
Baranski was married to actor Matthew Cowles from October 1983 to his death on May 22, 2014. Isabel (born 1984), a lawyer, and Lily (born 1987), an actress, have two daughters. She lives in Connecticut.
Career
Baranski made her Off-Broadway debut in Coming Attractions at Playwrights Horizons in 1980 and has appeared in numerous Off-Broadway productions at the Manhattan Theatre Club, beginning with Sally and Marsha in 1982.
In 1980, Baranski made her Broadway debut in Hide & Seek. She received the 1984 Tony Award Best Featured Actress in a Play for her next Broadway appearance in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing. Hurlyburly, The House of Blue Leaves, Rumors (for which she received her second Tony), Regg. Nora, and the Encores are among her Broadway credits. Follies' concert performance was on display.
Baranski starred in Sweeney Todd in 2002 (for which she received the 2003 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical) and in Mame as Mrs. Lovett (the title role).
Baranski appeared as the maid Berthe in the 2008 revival of Boeing in her first Broadway performance since 1991. Two Tony Awards were given, one for Best Revival of a Play and the other for Best Actor (Mark Rylance). Bradley Whitford (Bernard), Kathryn Hahn (Gloria), Christine Baranski (Berthe), Gina Gershon (Gabriella), and Mary McCormack (Gretchen). On January 4, 2009, the show came to an end.
Baranski also appeared in a one-night-only concert benefit performance for Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music for Roundabout Theatre Company as Countess Charlotte Malcolm on January 12, 2009. Vanessa Redgrave, Natasha Richardson, Victor Garber, and Marc Kudisch appeared on the cast.
Baranski has twice been nominated for both the Tony Award and Drama Desk Awards. In 2018, she was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
Baranski has appeared in many film roles. Katherine Archer in The Birdcage (1996), Martha May Whovier in How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), Mary Sunshine in Chicago (2002), and Connie Chasseur in The Ref (1994).
Baranski was given further credit for her role as Tanya Chesham-Leigh in the hit musical film Mamma Mia!(2008), and its sequel Mamma Mia!
We've arrived at a new moment in 2018.In the 2014 film version of the musical Into the Woods, Baranski played Cinderella's stepmother.
Baranski appeared in the films for 91 weeks (1986), Legal Eagles (1986), Reversal of Fortune (1990), Addams Family Values (1995), "The Odd Couple II" (1999), Bowfinger (1999), Chicago (2002), A Bad Mothers Christmas (2017).
Baranski appeared on several daytime soap operas, including All My Children and Another World.
Baranski appeared in the CBS sitcom Cybill's Cybill Shepherd's sarcastic, hard-drinking companion Maryann Thorpe, who appeared on Saturday Night Live and received an Emmy Award as Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series as well as three other honors. In the "Dick and the Single Girl" episode of 3rd Rock from the Sun, Baranski portrayed Sonja Umdahl. Baranski received an Emmy award for a guest starring role in NBC's Frasier as a tense tough love radio psychiatrist named Dr. Nora. The episode, which was named after the actor, parodied Dr. Laura Schlessinger, was named for the character. Paraphrased Baranski played an uncredited part in the film Now and Again as the voice of Roger's overbearing wife Ruth, who was never seen by viewers.
Baranski appeared in the 2000–2001 sitcom Welcome to New York and, with John Laroquette, in the 2003–2004 NBC sitcom Happy Family. She co-starred with Bernadette Peters in a pilot for ABC's Adopted in 2005, which was not picked up. In Ghost Whisperer, she played Faith Clancy, Jim Clancy's mother.
Baranski started acting in The Big Bang Theory as Dr. Beverly Hofstadter, a dispassionate psychiatrist and neuroscientist, as the mother of one of the protagonists, Leonard Hofstadter. She appeared in the second season of "The Maternal Capacitance," for which she received an Emmy award. Baranski appeared in the third season of "The Maternal Congruence" for her first appearance, earning another Emmy nomination. During the show's run, she appeared in a total of 16 episodes, receiving four Emmy awards for her recurring role.
Diane Lockhart, a leading litigator and senior partner of a Chicago law firm on the CBS show The Good Wife, appeared from 2009 to 2016. For six seasons of the drama from 2010 to 2015, she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. Victoria Hartley, the haughty mother of Betty's new boyfriend, appeared on The Good Wife and the aforementioned guest appearance on The Big Bang Theory in 2009.
Baranski appears in The Good Wife, a CBS spinoff of The Good Wife, as of 2017. Diane Lockhart, the actress who was coerced to return to work, has joined a different law firm. She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Outstanding Actress – Television Series Drama in the 79th Golden Globe Awards for her role in the fifth season of the program.