Christine Baranski - wikipedia Christine Baranski Christine Baranski Baranski at the Metropolitan Opera in 2008 Christine Jane Baranski ( 1952 - 05 - 02 ) May 2, 1952 ( age 66 ) Buffalo, New York, U.S. Residence Connecticut, U.S. Education Villa Maria Academy Alma mater Juilliard School Occupation Actress singer producer Years active 1974 -- present Spouse ( s ) Matthew Cowles ( m. 1983 ; d. 2014 ) Children Christine Jane Baranski ( born May 2, 1952 ) is an American actress, singer and producer. She is a 15 - time Emmy Award nominee, winning once in 1995 for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Maryanne Thorpe in the sitcom Cybill ( 1995 -- 98 ). Baranski has received further critical acclaim for her performance as Diane Lockhart in the legal drama series The Good Wife ( 2009 -- 2016 ) and its subsequent spinoff series The Good Fight ( 2017 -- present ), as well as her recurring role as Dr. Beverly Hofstadter in the sitcom The Big Bang Theory ( 2009 -- present ) for which she has received a pair of Emmy nominations. She is also known for her roles in numerous successful TV Films, most notably her portrayal of Kate in To Dance with the White Dog ( 1993 ), Prunella Stickler in Eloise at the Plaza and Eloise at Christmastime ( both 2003 ), and Amanda in Who Is Simon Miller ? ( 2011 ). Baranski won two Tony Awards for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the original Broadway productions of The Real Thing in 1984 and Rumors in 1989. Her other major Broadway credits include Hide and Seek ( 1980 ), Hurlyburly ( 1984 ), The House of Blue Leaves ( 1986 ), Nick & Nora ( 1991 ), and Boeing Boeing ( 2008 ). Baranski has starred in numerous films, including 91⁄2 Weeks ( 1986 ), Legal Eagles ( 1986 ), Reversal of Fortune ( 1990 ), Addams Family Values ( 1993 ), Jeffrey ( 1995 ), The Birdcage ( 1996 ), Bulworth ( 1998 ), Cruel Intentions ( 1999 ), Bowfinger ( 1999 ), Dr. Seuss ' How the Grinch Stole Christmas ( 2000 ), Chicago ( 2002 ), Mamma Mia ! ( 2008 ), The Bounty Hunter ( 2010 ), Into the Woods ( 2014 ), A Bad Moms Christmas ( 2017 ), and Mamma Mia ! Here We Go Again ( 2018 ). Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 2.1 Stage 2.2 Film 2.3 Television 3 Personal life 4 Filmography 4.1 Film 4.2 Television 4.3 Stage 4.4 Video games 5 Awards and nominations 6 References 7 External links Early life and education Baranski was born in Cheektowaga, Buffalo, New York, the daughter of Virginia ( née Mazurowski ) and Lucien Baranski, who edited a Polish - language newspaper. She is of Polish descent, and her grandparents were actors in the Polish theater. Baranski attended high school at the Villa Maria Academy in Cheektowaga. She then studied at New York City 's Juilliard School ( Drama Division Group 3 : 1970 -- 1974 ) where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1974. Career Stage Baranski at the Metropolitan Opera 2010 opening night of Das Rheingold 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 ( for which she won her second Tony ), 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 ( for which she won the 2003 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical ) and as the title character in Mame in 2006. In her first Broadway production since 1991, she was featured as the maid Berthe in the 2008 revival of Boeing Boeing. 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. 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. Some of her better known roles are as 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 ( 2004 ). She received further recognition for her role as Tanya Chisham - Leigh in the hit musical film Mamma Mia ! ( 2008 ), and its sequel, Mamma Mia ! Here We Go Again ( 2018 ). She also played Cinderella 's stepmother in the 2014 film adaptation of the musical, Into the Woods. Baranski also starred in the films 91⁄2 Weeks ( 1986 ), Legal Eagles ( 1986 ), Reversal of Fortune ( 1990 ), Addams Family Values ( 1993 ), Jeffrey ( 1995 ), Bulworth ( 1998 ), Cruel Intentions ( 1999 ), Bowfinger ( 1999 ), Chicago ( 2002 ), Trolls ( 2016 ), and A Bad Moms Christmas ( 2017 ). Television Baranski at the 2015 PaleyFest presentation for The Good Wife Though widely reported to have worked as a child actress under the name `` Chris Charney, '' Baranski denies ever having appeared on The Brady Bunch, and states that `` the first real TV show '' that she worked on was the comedy series Cybill. Earlier, she had appeared in short - term roles on various daytime soap operas, including All My Children and Another World. Baranski was featured as Cybill Shepherd 's sarcastic, hard - drinking friend Maryanne 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. During this, Baranski portrayed a librarian named Sonja Umdahl in the `` Dick and the Single Girl '' episode of 3rd Rock from the Sun. A few years later, 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. Baranski 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 an ABC sitcom, Adopted, in 2005, which was not picked up. She also played Faith Clancy, the mother of Jim Clancy in Ghost Whisperer. In 2009 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. She first appeared in the second - season episode `` 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. As of July 2018, she has appeared in eleven more episodes. From 2009 to 2016, she played the role of Diane Lockhart, a top litigator and senior partner of a Chicago law firm on the CBS series The Good Wife. She 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. Besides her work on The Good Wife and the aforementioned guest appearances on The Big Bang Theory, her other recent appearances include Ugly Betty in 2009 as Victoria Hartley, the haughty mother of Betty 's new boyfriend. Baranski currently stars in a spinoff of The Good Wife, titled The Good Fight. The series began airing on CBS and then CBS All Access starting in February 2017. Her character, Diane Lockhart, joins another law firm after being forced to return to work. Personal life Baranski was married to actor Matthew Cowles from October 1983 until his death on May 22, 2014. They have two daughters, Isabel ( born 1984 ) and Lily ( born 1987 ), who is also an actress. One of her daughters attended law school, passed the New York bar exam, and worked in the Brooklyn district attorney 's office during the run of The Good Wife. Filmography Film Year Title Role Notes 1982 Soup for One Blonde in Bar Lovesick Nymphomaniac 1984 Crackers Maxine 1986 91⁄2 Weeks Thea 1986 Legal Eagles Carol Freeman The Pick - up Artist Harriet Reversal of Fortune Andrea Reynolds 1993 The Night We Never Met Lucy 1993 Life with Mikey Carol 1993 Addams Family Values Becky Martin - Granger 1994 The Ref Connie Chasseur 1994 Getting In Mrs. Margaret `` Maggie '' Higgs 1994 The War Miss Strapford 1995 New Jersey Drive Prosecutor 1995 Jeffrey Ann Marwood Bartle The Birdcage Katherine Archer Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture 1998 The Odd Couple II Thelma 1998 Bulworth Constance Bulworth 1999 Cruel Intentions Bunny Caldwell 1999 Bowfinger Carol 2000 How the Grinch Stole Christmas Martha May Whovier 2002 The Guru Shantal 2002 Chicago Mary Sunshine Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture 2003 Marci X Mary Ellen Spinkle Welcome to Mooseport Charlotte Cole 2005 Scooby Doo ! in Where 's My Mummy ? Amelia Von Butch ( voice ) 2006 Falling for Grace Bree 2006 Relative Strangers Arleen Clayton 2006 Bonneville Francine 2008 Mamma Mia ! Tanya Chesham - Leigh The Bounty Hunter Kitty Hurley 2012 Foodfight ! Hedda Shopper ( voice ) 2014 Into the Woods Cinderella 's Stepmother Satellite Award for Best Cast -- Motion Picture Nominated -- Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Ensemble Nominated -- Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Ensemble 2016 Trolls Chef ( voice ) 2016 Miss Sloane Evelyn Sumner 2017 A Bad Moms Christmas Ruth 2018 Mamma Mia ! Here We Go Again Tanya Chesham - Leigh Television Year Title Role Notes 1977 Busting Loose Debbie Episode : `` The Decision : Part 1 '' 1980 Playing for Time Olga TV movie 1982 A Midsummer Night 's Dream Helena TV movie 1982 Another World Beverly Tucker Unknown episodes 1984 All My Children Jewel Maniscalo Unknown episodes 1985 Big Shots in America Cara TV movie 1985 The Equalizer Victoria Baines Episode : `` Mama 's Boy '' The House of Blue Leaves Bunny Flingus TV movie 1988 The Thorns Polly Episode : `` The Maid '' 1991 Law & Order Katherine Masucci Beigel Episodes : `` The Torrents of Greed Parts 1 & 2 '' Screenplay Blair Bennett Episode : `` Buying a Landslide '' 1993 To Dance with the White Dog Kate TV movie 1994 Law & Order Rose Siegal Episode : `` Nurture '' 1995 -- 98 Cybill Maryanne Thorpe 87 episodes Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series ( 1995 ) Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series ( 1995 ) Nominated -- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress -- Series, Miniseries or Television Film ( 1995, 1996 ) Nominated -- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series ( 1996 -- 98 ) Nominated -- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series ( 1995 ) Nominated -- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series ( 1996 ) Saturday Night Live Herself ( host ) Episode : `` Christine Baranski / The Cure '' 1997 3rd Rock from the Sun Sonja Umdahl Episode : `` Dick and the Single Girl '' 1999 Now and Again Ruth Bender ( voice ) Episode : `` Origins '' ; uncredited 1999 Frasier Dr. Nora Fairchild Episode : `` Dr. Nora '' Nominated -- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series 2000 -- 01 Welcome to New York Marsha Bickner 13 episodes Citizen Baines Glenn Ferguson Baines Welch Episode : `` Three Days in November '' 2002 Presidio Med Dr. Terry Howland Episodes : `` Pick Your Battles '', `` Best of Enemies '' 2003 Eloise at the Plaza Prunella Stickler TV movie 2003 Eloise at Christmastime Prunella Stickler TV movie 2003 -- 04 Happy Family Annie Brennan 22 episodes Spellbound TV movie 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 Episodes : `` Voices '', `` The Crossing '' 2006 Inseparable Barbara TV movie 2006 American Dad ! Homeless Woman ( voice ) Episode : `` Failure Is Not a Factory - installed Option '' 2009 Ugly Betty Victoria Hartley 3 episodes 2009 Psych Alice Clayton Episode : `` He Dead '' 2009 -- 2018 The Big Bang Theory Dr. Beverly Hofstadter 13 episodes Nominated -- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series ( 2009, 2010, 2015, 2016 ) 2009 -- 2016 The Good Wife Diane Lockhart 156 episodes Nominated -- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series ( 2010 -- 15 ) Nominated -- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series ( 2009, 2010, 2011 ) 2011 Who Is Simon Miller ? Amanda TV movie 2011 Ugly Americans Grimes ' mummy ( voice ) Episode : `` Mummy Dearest '' 2015 BoJack Horseman Amanda Hannity ( voice ) Episode : `` Hank After Dark '' 2013 Family Guy Herself ( voice ) Episode : `` Call Girl '' 2017 Regular Show Guardian ( voice ) Episode : `` A Regular Epic Final Battle '' 2017 -- present The Good Fight Diane Lockhart 23 episodes 2017 Michael Jackson 's Halloween Mrs. Grau ( voice ) TV special 2017 Spirit Riding Free Miz McDonnell ( voice ) Episode : `` Lucky and the Long Way Home '' Stage Year Title Role Notes 1980 Hide & Seek Elly Bart Broadway 1980 Coming Attractions Performer Playwrights Horizons 1982 Sally and Marsha Marsha Manhattan Theatre Club 1984 The Real Thing Charlotte Broadway 1984 Hurlyburly Bonnie Broadway 1986 The House of Blue Leaves Bunny Flingus Broadway 1988 Rumors Chris Gorman Broadway 1991 Nick & Nora Tracy Gardner Broadway 1997 Promises, Promises Marge MacDougall Off - Broadway 2002 Sweeney Todd Mrs. Lovett Kennedy Center 2006 Mame Mame Dennis Kennedy Center 2008 Boeing Boeing Berthe Broadway Video games Year Project Role Notes 2013 Skylanders : Swap Force Kaos ' Mother 2017 Steven Universe : Save the Light Hessonite Awards and nominations Main article : List of awards and nominations received by Christine Baranski References Jump up ^ `` Christine Baranski -- Family and Companions -- Yahoo ! 7 Movies '' Archived 2007 - 03 - 14 at the Wayback Machine. movies.yahoo.com ^ Jump up to : `` Christine Baranski Biography ( 1952 -- ) '' filmreference.com, accessed April 29, 2011 Jump up ^ `` Western New York Public Broadcasting Association '' Archived 2007 - 08 - 09 at the Wayback Machine. wned.org Jump up ^ Triplett, William ( May 12, 2002 ). `` For Baranski, A Most Meaty Opportunity ; In ' Sweeney Todd, ' Actress Sinks Her Teeth Into a Singing Role ''. The Washington Post. HighBeam Research. Jump up ^ Rousuck, J. Wynn ( May 21, 2006 ). `` The lady has it : Christine Baranski stars in ' Mame ' for the 2nd time ''. The Baltimore Sun. ^ Jump up to : Gans, Andrew ( June 16, 2006 ). `` DIVA TALK : Chatting with Mame 's Christine Baranski ''. Playbill.com. Archived from the original on August 29, 2008. Jump up ^ Shulman, Randy ( June 8, 2006 ). `` Christine Baranski : TV and stage actress talks about starring in ' Mame ' and ' Cybill ' ''. MetroWeekly.com. Jump up ^ `` Alumni News ''. The Juilliard School. September 2009. Retrieved April 7, 2012. Jump up ^ `` Christine Baranski ''. All Movie Guide. The New York Times. Retrieved April 7, 2012. Jump up ^ Brantley, Ben. `` Adding Love To the Pies ' Time - Tested Recipe '', New York Times, May 15, 2002 Jump up ^ Simonson, Robert. `` PLAYBILL. COM 'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Christine Baranski '' Archived 2009 - 01 - 14 at the Wayback Machine., playbill.com, May 7, 2008 Jump up ^ Gans, Andrew. `` Starry A Little Night Music Concert Presented in Manhattan Jan. 12 '' Archived 2009 - 01 - 14 at the Wayback Machine., playbill.com, January 12, 2009 ^ Jump up to : WORLD EXCLUSIVE ! New Confirmed Casting For the INTO THE WOODS Movie, Starring Streep & Depp Broadway World, Retrieved July 27, 2013 Jump up ^ `` Christine Baranski : Was n't Me on ' The Brady Bunch ' ! ''. blog.blogtalkradio.com. Retrieved 29 July 2018. Jump up ^ `` Dick and the Single Girl ''. 11 May 1997. Retrieved 29 July 2018 -- via www.imdb.com. Jump up ^ Poniewozik, James. `` Review : On ' The Good Fight, ' a Lawyer Claws Her Way Back to Normal '' New York Times, February 16, 2017 Jump up ^ Simonson, Robert. `` Matthew Cowles, Actor and Husband of Christine Baranski, Dies '' Archived 2014 - 05 - 27 at the Wayback Machine. playbill.com, May 27, 2014 Jump up ^ Klein, Alvin ( January 25, 1998 ). `` THEATER ; Being Irish And Being Married ''. The New York Times. Retrieved April 30, 2010. Jump up ^ Colbert, Stephen ( host ) ( 28 April 2016 ). `` Christine Baranski ''. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Season 1. Episode 131. CBS. Jump up ^ ' Miss Sloane ' review : An intriguing character who needs a more intriguing film Seattle Times, Retrieved December 8, 2016 Jump up ^ `` Filmography by TV series for Christine Baranski ''. IMDb.com. Retrieved April 14, 2013. Jump up ^ Skylanders Swap Force E3 2013 -- Epic Interview Pt 2 ( Kaos 's Mom, TarClops ) on YouTube Jump up ^ `` Meet Hessonite, the Villainous New Steven Universe Gem Voiced by Christine Baranski ''. www.themarysue.com. Retrieved 29 July 2018. External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Christine Baranski. 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Question: who plays diane lockhart in the good wife
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