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Christine Jane Baranski (born May 2, 1952) is an American stage and screen actress.
Career
Stage
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.
Baranski made her Broadway debut in Hide & Seek in 1980. For her next Broadway performance, in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, she won the 1984 Tony Award Best Featured Actress in a Play. Other Broadway credits include: Hurlyburly, The House of Blue Leaves,Rumors, Regrets Only, Nick & Nora, and the Encores! concert staging of Follies.
At the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Baranski starred as Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd in 2002[6] (for which she won the 2003 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical) and as the titular Mame in 2006.[7]
In her first Broadway production since 1991, she was featured as the maid "Berthe" in the 2008 revival of Boeing Boeing.[8] The show garnered two Tony Awards, one for Best Revival of a Play and the other for Best Actor (Mark Rylance). The original cast was Bradley Whitford(Bernard), Kathryn Hahn (Gloria), Christine Baranski (Berthe), Gina Gershon (Gabriella), and Mary McCormack (Gretchen). The show closed on January 4, 2009.
She also 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.[9] The cast included Vanessa Redgrave, Natasha Richardson, Victor Garber, and Marc Kudisch, among others.
She has won both the Tony and Drama Desk Awards twice.
Film
Baranski has also starred in various roles in films and television. In film, some of her best known roles are as Katherine Archer in The Birdcage, Mary Sunshine in the musical Chicago, Martha May Whovier in How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Connie Chasseur in The Ref and as Tanya in the musical Mamma Mia!
Television work
Baranski was featured as Cybill Shepherd's hard-drinking friend Maryanne Thorpe in the CBSsitcom Cybill, which ran from 1995 until 1998, during which time she hosted Saturday Night Liveand won an Emmy Award as best supporting actress in a comedy series along with three other nominations.
In 1999 Baranski received an Emmy nomination for a guest starring role as an intimidating radio psychiatrist on an episode of the NBC series Frasier. She 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.
She later 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 anABC sitcom, Adopted, in 2005, which was not picked up. She also played Faith Clancy, the mother of Jim Clancy in Ghost Whisperer.
She portrayed a librarian named Sonja Umdahl in the episode "Dick and the Single Girl" of the series 3rd Rock from the Sun.[10]
She guest starred in The Big Bang Theory as Dr. Beverly Hofstadter, a bespectacled and unemotional expert in psychiatry and neuroscience who is the mother of one of the protagonists, Leonard Hofstadter. She appeared in the second season episode entitled "The Maternal Capacitance", for which she received an Emmy nomination. Due to the popularity of her first appearance, Baranski returned in the third season for the Christmas episode, "The Maternal Congruence" receiving another Emmy nomination
Since 2009, she has played the role of Diane Lockhart, a top litigator and senior partner of a Chicago law firm on The Good Wife. She was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for an Emmy in 2010.
Besides her work on The Good Wife and the aforementioned guest appearance on The Big Bang Theory, in 2009 Baranski appeared on Ugly Betty as Victoria Hartley, the haughty mother of Betty's new boyfriend, and guest starred in episode 4.02 of Psych.
Though widely reported to have worked as a child actress under the name "Chris Charney," Baranski denies ever having appeared on The Brady Bunch.[11]
[edit]Filmography
Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | Who's Minding the Mint? | Girl | Uncredited |
| 1980 | Playing for Time | Olga | TV movie |
| 1982 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Helena | TV movie |
| 1982 | Soup for One | Blonde in Bar | |
| 1983 | Lovesick | Nymphomaniac | |
| 1982 | Another World | Beverly Tucker | TV series, unknown episodes |
| 1984 | Crackers | Maxine | |
| 1984 | All My Children | Jewel Maniscalo | TV series, unknown episodes |
| 1985 | Big Shots in America | TV movie | |
| 1985 | The Equalizer | Victoria Baines | TV series, episode: "Mama's Boy" |
| 1986 | Nine 1/2 Weeks | Thea | |
| 1986 | Legal Eagles | Carol Freeman | |
| 1987 | The House of Blue Leaves | Bunny Flingus | TV movie |
| 1987 | The Pick-up Artist | Harriet | |
| 1988 | The Thorns | Polly | TV series, episode: "The Maid" |
| 1990 | Reversal of Fortune | Andrea Reynolds, Claus' Girlfriend | |
| 1991 | Law & Order | Katherine Masucci Beigel | TV series, episodes: "The Torrents of Greed Parts 1 & 2" |
| 1992 | Screenplay | Blair Bennett | TV series, episode: "Buying a Landslide" |
| 1993 | The Night We Never Met | Lucy | |
| 1993 | Life with Mikey | Carol | |
| 1993 | Addams Family Values | Becky Martin-Granger | |
| 1993 | To Dance with the White Dog | Kate | TV movie |
| 1994 | The Ref | Connie Chasseur | |
| 1994 | Getting In | Mrs. Margaret "Maggie" Higgs | |
| 1994 | The War | Miss Strapford | |
| 1994 | Law & Order | Rose Siegal | TV series, episode: "Nurture" |
| 1995–1998 | Cybill | Maryanne Thorpe | TV series, 87 episodes |
| 1995 | New Jersey Drive | Prosecutor | |
| 1995 | Jeffrey | Ann Marwood Bartle | |
| 1996 | The Birdcage | Katherine Archer | |
| 1997 | 3rd Rock From The Sun | Sonja Umdahl | TV series, episode: "Dick and the Single Girl" |
| 1998 | The Odd Couple II | Thelma | |
| 1998 | Bulworth | Constance Bulworth | |
| 1999 | Cruel Intentions | Bunny Caldwell | |
| 1999 | Bowfinger | Carol | |
| 1999 | Now and Again | Ruth Bender | Episode: "Origins" (voice, uncredited) |
| 1999 | Frasier | Dr. Nora Fairchild | TV series, episode: "Dr. Nora" |
| 2000–2001 | Welcome to New York | Marsha Bickner | TV series, 13 episodes |
| 2000 | How the Grinch Stole Christmas | Martha May Whovier | |
| 2001 | Citizen Baines | Glenn Ferguson Baines Welch | TV series, episode: "Three Days in November" |
| 2002 | The Guru | Shantal | |
| 2002 | Chicago | Mary Sunshine | |
| 2002 | Speed Racer X | Trixie Fontaine | voice |
| 2002 | Presidio Med | Dr. Terry Howland | TV series, episodes: "Pick Your Battles", "Best of Enemies" |
| 2003 | Eloise at the Plaza | Prunella Stickler | |
| 2003 | Marci X | Mary Ellen Spinkle | |
| 2003 | Eloise at Christmastime | Prunella Stickler | |
| 2003–2004 | Happy Family | Annie Brennan | TV series, 22 episodes |
| 2004 | Spellbound | TV | |
| 2004 | Welcome to Mooseport | Charlotte Cole | |
| 2005 | Scooby Doo in Where's My Mummy? | Andrea Von Butch | voice, straight-to-video |
| 2005 | Recipe for a Perfect Christmas | Lee Bellmont | TV movie |
| 2005 | Adopted | Judy Rabinowitz | TV movie |
| 2005 | In The Game | TV pilot | |
| 2005 | Ghost Whisperer | Faith Clancy | TV series, episodes: "Voices", "The Crossing" |
| 2006 | Inseparable | Barbara | TV movie |
| 2006 | Falling for Grace | Bree | |
| 2006 | Relative Strangers | Arleen Clayton | |
| 2006 | Bonneville | Francine | |
| 2006 | American Dad! | Homeless Woman | TV series, episode: "Failure Is Not a Factory-installed Option" (voice) |
| 2008 | Mamma Mia! | Tanya Wilkinson | |
| 2009 | Ugly Betty | Victoria Hartley | TV series, 4 episodes |
| 2009 | The Big Bang Theory | Dr. Beverly Hofstadter | TV series, episodes: "The Maternal Congruence", "The Maternal Capacitance" |
| 2009 | Psych | Alice Clayton | TV series, episode: "He Dead" |
| 2009–present | The Good Wife | Diane Lockhart | TV series, 22 episodes |
| 2010 | The Bounty Hunter | Kitty Hurley |
Awards and nominations
| Year | Award | Category | Title of work | Medium | Notes | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | Drama Desk Award | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | The Real Thing | Theatre | Won | |
| 1984 | Tony Award | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | The Real Thing | Theatre | Won | |
| 1989 | Tony Award | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Rumors | Theatre | Won | |
| 1992 | Drama Desk Award | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Lips Together, Teeth Apart | Theatre | Won | |
| 1995 | Emmy Award | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series | Cybill | Television | Won | |
| 1996 | Emmy Award | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series | Cybill | Television | Nominated | |
| 1996 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV | Cybill | Television | Nominated | |
| 1996 | Screen Actors Guild Award | Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series | Cybill | Television | Won | |
| 1996 | Screen Actors Guild Award | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series | Cybill | Television | shared with cast | Nominated |
| 1996 | Viewers for Quality Television Award | Best Supporting Actress in a Quality Comedy Series | Cybill | Television | Won | |
| 1997 | Emmy Award | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series | Cybill | Television | Nominated | |
| 1997 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV | Cybill | Television | Nominated | |
| 1997 | Screen Actors Guild Award | Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Theatrical Motion Picture | The Birdcage | Film | shared with cast | Won |
| 1997 | Screen Actors Guild Award | Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series | Cybill | Television | Nominated | |
| 1998 | Emmy Award | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series | Cybill | Television | Nominated | |
| 1999 | Emmy Award | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series | Cybill | Television | Nominated | |
| 1999 | Emmy Award | Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series | Frasier | Television | Episode: "Dr. Nora Fairchild" | Nominated |
| 2000 | American Comedy Award | Funniest Female Guest Appearance in a TV Series | Frasier | Television | Nominated | |
| 2001 | Blockbuster Entertainment Award | Favorite Supporting Actor – Comedy | How the Grinch Stole Christmas | Film | Nominated | |
| 2003 | Broadcast Film Critics Association Award | Best Cast | Chicago | Film | Won | |
| 2003 | Phoenix Film Critics Society Award | Best Cast | Chicago | Film | shared with cast | Nominated |
| 2003 | Screen Actors Guild Award | Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Theatrical Motion Picture | Chicago | Film | shared with cast | Won |
| 2009 | Emmy Award | Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series | The Big Bang Theory | Television | Episode: "The Maternal Capacitance" | Nominated |
| 2010 | Emmy Award | Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series | The Big Bang Theory | Television | Episode: "The Maternal Congruence" | Nominated |
| 2010 | Emmy Award | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series | The Good Wife | Television | Nominated | |
| 2010 | Screen Actors Guild Award | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series | The Good Wife | Television | shared with cast | Nominated |
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