29 Facts About Christine Baranski

Christine Jane Baranski was born on May 2,1952 and is an American actress.

Christine Baranski received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Maryann Thorpe in the sitcom Cybill.

Christine Baranski won two Tony Awards for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role as Charlotte in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing and as Chris Gorman in Neil Simon's Rumors.

Christine Baranski portrayed Mrs Lovett in the Kennedy Center's production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

Christine Baranski was born in Buffalo, New York, the daughter of Virginia and Lucien Christine Baranski, who edited a Polish-language newspaper.

Christine Baranski had an older brother, Michael J Baranski, an advertising executive who died at age 48.

Christine Baranski is of Polish descent, and her grandparents were stage actors in Poland before emigrating to US.

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Christine Baranski was raised in a heavily Polish and Catholic neighborhood in the Buffalo suburb of Cheektowaga.

Christine Baranski attended high school at the Villa Maria Academy where she was class president and salutatorian.

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Christine Baranski studied at New York City's Juilliard School, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.

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Christine Baranski made her off-Broadway debut in Coming Attractions at Playwrights Horizons in 1980, and has appeared in several off-Broadway productions at the Manhattan Theatre Club, starting with Sally and Marsha in 1982.

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At the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, Christine Baranski starred as Mrs Lovett in Sweeney Todd in 2002 and as the title character in Mame in 2006.

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Christine Baranski appeared in a one-night-only concert benefit performance of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music for Roundabout Theatre Company as Countess Charlotte Malcolm on January 12,2009.

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Christine Baranski has won both the Tony Award and Drama Desk Awards twice.

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Christine Baranski played Cinderella's stepmother in the 2014 film adaptation of the musical Into the Woods.

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Christine Baranski appeared in short-term roles on various daytime soap operas, including All My Children and Another World.

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Christine Baranski was featured as Cybill Shepherd's sarcastic, hard-drinking friend Maryann Thorpe in the CBS sitcom Cybill, which ran from 1995 until 1998, during which time she hosted Saturday Night Live and won an Emmy Award as Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series along with three other nominations.

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Christine Baranski had an uncredited role in the series Now and Again as the voice of Roger's overbearing wife Ruth, who was never seen by viewers.

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Christine Baranski co-starred with Bernadette Peters in a pilot for an ABC sitcom, Adopted, in 2005, which was not picked up.

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Christine Baranski played Faith Clancy, the mother of Jim Clancy in Ghost Whisperer.

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In 2009, Christine Baranski began guest-starring in The Big Bang Theory as Dr Beverly Hofstadter, a dispassionate psychiatrist and neuroscientist and mother of one of the protagonists, Leonard Hofstadter.

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Christine Baranski first appeared in the second-season episode "The Maternal Capacitance", for which she received an Emmy nomination.

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Christine Baranski appeared in a total of 16 episodes during the show's run, earning four Emmy nominations for her recurring role.

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From 2009 to 2016, Christine Baranski played the role of Diane Lockhart, a top litigator and senior partner of a Chicago law firm on the CBS series The Good Wife.

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Christine Baranski was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for six seasons of the series, in the years 2010 to 2015.