Christine Baranski
Christine Jane Baranski ( born May 2, 1952 in Buffalo, New York ) is an American actress.
Life and achievements
Father of Christine Baranski, a Polish -born American who was editor of a Polish-language newspaper. Christine Baranski attended Villa Maria Academy and studied at the Juilliard School.
Baranski made her debut in 1980 in the award-winning television movie game time ( Playing for Time) from a screenplay by Arthur Miller, in which she played opposite Vanessa Redgrave. In 1986, she appeared in 9 ½ weeks alongside Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger and played in the comedy prosecutors not kissing you on the side of Robert Redford, Debra Winger, and Daryl Hannah. From 1995 to 1998 Baranski starred with Cybill Shepherd as the female lead in the TV series Cybill.
In the comedy The Birdcage - A paradise for birds shrill Baranski played in 1996 the role of Katherine Archer, as a mother of Val Goldman ( Dan Futterman ). In the comedy The Grinch she joined in 2000 alongside Jim Carrey on. In the movie Chicago Baranski in 2002 starred alongside Renée Zellweger and Catherine Zeta -Jones. In 2008, she was in the movie Mamma Mia! be seen in the role of Tanya opposite Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan and Julie Walters, in which they presented as their colleagues their singing talent.
In the television series The Good Wife Since 2009 she plays the role of a lawyer Diane Lockhart and occurs occasionally in the sitcom The Big Bang Theory in the role of Beverly Hofstadter on.
Private
Baranski is married to actor Matthew Cowles since 1983 and has two daughters. She lives in Connecticut.
Awards
Baranski twice won a Tony Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1984 for the play The Real Thing and in 1989 for the play Rumors.
For her role in the television series Cybill she won an Emmy Award in 1995; in the years 1996, 1997 and 1998 she was nominated for the same award. In 1996 and 1997 she was nominated for a Golden Globe for the role. In 1996 she won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress in a Television Series - Comedy, in 1997, she was nominated for the same price. They also won in 1996 the Viewers for Quality Television Award and an American Comedy Award.
For her role in The Birdcage - A paradise for birds shrill she won a Screen Actors Guild Award in 1997. For her performance in the television series Frasier she was nominated for an Emmy Award and 2000 for the American Comedy Award 1999. For her role in the comedy The Grinch 2001 she was nominated for a Blockbuster Entertainment Award. For her role in Chicago Baranski was nominated for the 2003 Phoenix Film Critics Society Award and won a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award. In 2009 she received for her guest appearance as Beverly Hofstadter in the series The Big Bang Theory: its sixth Emmy nomination ( episode The Maternal Capacitance ). 2011 and 2012 she was nominated for her role in The Good Wife for an Emmy.