Christine Baranski

Premiere: Christine Baranski at the premiere of Paramount's Titanic - 12/14/1997 Photo: Steve Granitz/Wireimage.com

Biography

Born 05/02/1952

While comic actress Christine Baranski was the winner of multiple Tony Awards for her extensive work on Broadway, she was more widely known by television audiences for her scene-stealing performance as Cybill Shepherd's dagger-tongued, gin-swilling best friend Maryann Thorpe on the CBS sitcom...
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Awards

  • In 2003, received Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Theatrical Motion Picture
  • In 1996, received Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Theatrical Motion Picture
  • In 1995, received Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series

Highlights

  • In 2009, Earned an Emmy nomination for her guest-starring role as Dr. Beverly Hofstadter, an unemotional expert in psychiatry and neural science, and Leonard’s (Johnny Galecki) mom in a episode of "The Big Bang Theory" (CBS)
  • In 2009, Cast opposite Julianna Margulies in the CBS drama, "The Good Wife"
  • In 2008, Starred in the Broadway revival of "Boeing-Boeing"

Family & Companions

  • Lucien Baranski: father (Worked for a Polish-language newspaper)
  • Lily Cowles: daughter (Born c. 1984; father, Matthew Cowles)
  • Isabel Cowles: daughter (Born c. 1987; father, Matthew Cowles)

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