May 2: Happy Birthday Christine Baranski

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Christine Baranski is turning 65 today. She graduated from Juilliard and made her Broadway debut in 1980 in Lezley Havad’s Hide and Seek. During the next decade she was primarily a stage actress, and won a pair of Tony Awards, both for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play. The first was for Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing, while the second was for Neil Simon’s Rumors. Baranski also made a few TV guest appearances during this time, along with playing some supporting roles in movies.

In the past twenty-odd years, Baranski has become a regular and much-acclaimed television presence, receiving fifteen Emmy nominations. The first four of them were for appearing on a CBS sitcom which began airing in 1995.



Baranski was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy for each of Cybill’s four seasons, winning for season 1. Her subsequent nominations have included one for a guest role on Frasier, four in the Outstanding Guess Actress category for playing Dr. Beverly Hofstadter (Leonard’s mother) on The Big Bang Theory, and a whopping six for playing Diane Lockhart on The Good Wife. She currently is continuing in the character of Diane on the spinoff series The Good Fight; her recent film roles have included Tanya Chisam-Leigh in Mamma Mia! and Cinderella’s Stepmother in Into the Woods.