Christine Baranski
She was born in Buffalo, educated in New York City, and currently lives a quiet life in New England. She got her start on the stage, appearing in diverse productions from Hamlet to Company to The Cherry Orchard. Soon the juicy roles followed. First in films such as Reversal of Fortunate, The Birdcage, Cruel Intentions, and Chicago. However, she became a household name appearing in television; Cybil, The Good Wife, and, most recently, The Gilded Age, where she has been nominated for a staggering 13 Emmys.
Despite always appearing prim, posh, and well mannered, she claims it was an act she learned against her blue collar roots. "I think I decided early on that I wanted to speak a certain way, and it was a projection on my part," she says, "I wanted to go to New York and be a theatre actress, and I’m living my image of the kind of woman I wanted to be."
And she succeed. Let's discuss the great American actress Christine Baranski.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 79 | August 29, 2024 4:48 PM
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Nice The Guardian article about her.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 1 | March 25, 2024 1:41 AM
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She's actually quite intelligent and educated. A friend of mine was taking summer courses at Oxford University just before Covid, and Christine Baranski was in her classes.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | March 25, 2024 1:42 AM
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She also has a love of tennis, hiking, wine, literature, and opera
A true class act all around
by Anonymous | reply 3 | March 25, 2024 1:43 AM
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9th graders take summer classes at Oxford, too.
She married a pimp!
by Anonymous | reply 4 | March 25, 2024 1:46 AM
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And yet I find her irritating as hell.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | March 25, 2024 1:50 AM
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She's one of those celebs that I seems like a decent, not neurotic person who would be fun to hang out with.
I'd be so disappointed if it all turned out to be an act, and she's just another narcissistic, nasty one.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | March 25, 2024 1:52 AM
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For awhile, I was convinced that Christine Baranski was Marcia Brady's friend who got her in trouble at school by writing a caption for a picture Marcia drew.
But apparently it wasn't her. Damn it
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 7 | March 25, 2024 1:54 AM
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R6 I don't think she'll every let anyone see her 'real' side
by Anonymous | reply 9 | March 25, 2024 2:00 AM
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Her late husband Matthew Cowles was a descendant of 2 Gilded Age families...the Cowles of Publishing in NYC& the Drexel Family of Philadelphia (Finance, Banking, other things beyond Wealthy) Plus he was "BILLY CLYDE TUTTLE" PIMP OF DONNA BECK OF ALL MY CHILDREN FAME!!1
by Anonymous | reply 10 | March 25, 2024 2:01 AM
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I love her. From the moment I saw her for the first time on Cybil, I loved her. Dramatic. Bitchy. Fabulous. I watched The Gilded Age and she was classic Baranski.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | March 25, 2024 2:04 AM
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She was great as Bunny Flingus in The House of Blue Leaves. What a cast--Swoosie Kurtz, John Mahoney, and Baranski. It doesn't get better than that.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | March 25, 2024 2:07 AM
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And yet she was a lousy Mame and a lousy Mrs. Lovett.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | March 25, 2024 2:12 AM
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Every performance can't be a winner, R13.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | March 25, 2024 2:13 AM
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Thanks R12. I've added at top of my list for this week's viewing pleasure. I love Swoozie and Mahoney.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | March 25, 2024 2:13 AM
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The first time I remember seeing Baranski was in the Addams Family Values 1993 and she was absolute perfection. I've always had a soft spot for her ever since.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | March 25, 2024 2:15 AM
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Swoozie and Baranski were also in Cruel Intentions, the late 1990's low brow teen thriller based on Dangerous Liaisons starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, and Reese Witherspoon.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | March 25, 2024 2:17 AM
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And Swoosie was also in Dangerous Liaisons.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | March 25, 2024 2:19 AM
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The CBS Sunday Morning Interview
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 19 | March 25, 2024 2:25 AM
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The Rosie O'Donnell Interview
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 20 | March 25, 2024 2:25 AM
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IS the Good Wife worth the watch? Is it legally accurate?
by Anonymous | reply 22 | March 25, 2024 2:32 AM
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She's had an amazing career considering her rather offbeat looks. The first thing I can remember seeing her in is The Ref, with DL icon Judy Davis.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | March 25, 2024 2:41 AM
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I get her confused with other actresses that exude a similar pediatrician air.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | March 25, 2024 2:56 AM
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[quote]pediatrician air
Yet, she always plays rich women and rarely, if ever, played a doctor.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | March 25, 2024 3:11 AM
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[quote] I get her confused with other actresses that exude a similar pediatrician air.
Oh my fucking dear, R24.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | March 25, 2024 3:26 AM
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I actually enjoyed her Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd. The only real weakness in that production was Kelsey MAGAer in the title role.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | March 25, 2024 5:05 AM
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The Good Wife was a great show. Lots of clever plottting.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | March 25, 2024 10:49 AM
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Ben Stiller sucked in that play
by Anonymous | reply 30 | March 25, 2024 10:56 AM
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She's one of those actresses who will always make you want to watch whatever new project they're in, whether pedestrian or outlandish.
Jane Seymour and Kate Winslet are in the same league, at least to me: I will watch anything they star in.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | March 25, 2024 11:04 AM
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[quote]"I think I decided early on that I wanted to speak a certain way, and it was a projection on my part," she says, "I wanted to go to New York and be a theatre actress, and I’m living my image of the kind of woman I wanted to be."
I love the self-invented who do it well, not to hide their origins but to be who they want to be.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | March 25, 2024 11:05 AM
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Her finest moments as an actress were as Dr. Beverly Hofstadter. Comic gold.
Thread closed.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | March 25, 2024 11:48 AM
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The Good Wife was great and The Good Fight was even better, IMO, as it focused on her.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | March 25, 2024 11:56 AM
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I saw her on Broadway with DL fave Glenn Close in the 80s in the play, The Real Thing. Can’t remember a thing about it except the cast’s fake and unconvincing English accents.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | March 25, 2024 12:35 PM
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The Lovett I was referring to was the one in DC with Stokes. Didn't see the LA version, but certainly can see her giving a better performance than Grammar.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | March 25, 2024 12:43 PM
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Is there a CD of Baranski/Stokes? They have to sign well
by Anonymous | reply 37 | March 25, 2024 1:17 PM
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[quote]She was great as Bunny Flingus in The House of Blue Leaves. What a cast--Swoosie Kurtz, John Mahoney, and Baranski. It doesn't get better than that.
This is on my list of Top 10 Best Theater I’ve Seen
by Anonymous | reply 38 | March 25, 2024 1:21 PM
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Another vote for her in The Addams Family Values
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 39 | March 25, 2024 1:24 PM
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I was totally shocked when I found out she was married to Billy Clyde Tuttle from AMC. For someone descended from Gilded Age families, he sure looked white trash, even cleaned up he had a "look".
by Anonymous | reply 40 | March 25, 2024 1:27 PM
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Hilarious in The Ref with Judy Davis and Glynis Johns.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | March 25, 2024 2:02 PM
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I always enjoy the rerun of Frasier where she played a thinly veiled Dr. Laura type with mommy issues.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | March 25, 2024 2:21 PM
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R44, funny because I just saw that one last night. Hilarious when she's running around screaming with Piper Laurie chasing her calling her a cheap little whore and wanting money for a bottle of Matuse
by Anonymous | reply 46 | March 25, 2024 2:40 PM
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I really love her, but I've read so many snippets of how snotty and imperious she is with the public. I know she doesn't owe fans anything, but decency and kindness are easy.
And fans help get you where you want to go.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | March 25, 2024 3:04 PM
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Links to bad behavior? I thought her co-star, Cybil, was the cunt.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | March 25, 2024 4:07 PM
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First saw her on Cybill, where she always referred to her ex on the show as Dr Dick. She was great on The Good Wife and absolutely fantastic on The Good Fight.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | March 25, 2024 4:42 PM
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Idolizes Maggie Smith, loves Henry James, huge Buffalo Bills fan, detests social media, and auctioned off her clothes to go to theaters during COVID.
The more I read about her, the more I like her
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 52 | March 25, 2024 5:08 PM
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R49
You're right; I should have provided links if I was going to suggest that. I'm not making it up, but...
by Anonymous | reply 53 | March 25, 2024 6:29 PM
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Here are Baranski and Stokes doing A Little Priest:
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 54 | March 25, 2024 6:59 PM
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[quote] whether pedestrian or outlandish.
Oh dear - obviously, you mean "pediatrician"
by Anonymous | reply 55 | March 25, 2024 7:47 PM
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[quote]Cybil Shepard
Two words, and you got them both wrong. Brava!
by Anonymous | reply 56 | March 25, 2024 8:30 PM
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[quote]The Gilded Age, where she has been nominated for a staggering 13 Emmys
How did she get nominated for 13 Emmys in a show that's only run for two seasons?
by Anonymous | reply 57 | March 25, 2024 8:31 PM
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[quote]Plus he was "BILLY CLYDE TUTTLE"
TUGGLE
You too, R40.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | March 25, 2024 8:32 PM
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R55, you can come have a seat by me.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | March 25, 2024 8:33 PM
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A few years ago, I met Ms. Baranski when we were audience members at a concert performance at Carnegie Hall. We chatted for a while during intermission. She was charming, personable and delightful.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | March 25, 2024 10:28 PM
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She wasn’t able to save Nick & Nora.
And during previews we rewrote her big number. Neither song worked.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | March 27, 2024 2:04 AM
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I enjoyed her Broadway performances, especially The Real Thing and Rumors. She won a Tony award (supporting actress) for each.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | March 27, 2024 2:48 AM
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Loved her in Frasier as Dr. Nora
by Anonymous | reply 64 | March 31, 2024 2:30 AM
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Awesome narrator for Joyce Carol Oates' creepy story "Where are you going? Where have you been?"!
by Anonymous | reply 65 | March 31, 2024 2:42 AM
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I saw CB in a few shows early on in the 80s: she was Judith Ivey's replacement in Hurlyburly, off-Broadway in It's Only a Play (what a cast: Christine Baranski, Mark Blum, James Coco, David Garrison, Joanna Gleason and Florence Stanley) and then in House of Blue Leaves.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | March 31, 2024 2:46 AM
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I loved her in the 1981 Terrance McNally play LIPS TOGETHER, TEETH APART. It was a wonderful production directed by John Tillinger and featuring four fantastic performers, including Swoosie Kurtz, Nathan Lane, and Anthony Heald.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 67 | March 31, 2024 3:02 AM
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Her career is astonishing, there are few like her (if any). Her niche as the cultured, well-kept, but secretly sexy and outrageous woman defines whatever role she plays is. From The Birdcage and Chicago to Mamma Mia 1&2 she holds that crown, yet so many more memorable performances where she goes a different way. A truly great actress. Very few actresses (if any) have the stage and screen credits in major projects like she does.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | March 31, 2024 8:05 AM
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PS she is also magnificent audiobook narrator for DL Fave The First Wives’ Club.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | March 31, 2024 8:11 AM
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She is a terrible person in Cruel Intentions, but love her in it.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 71 | April 3, 2024 11:36 PM
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Love the dress in the OP.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | April 3, 2024 11:44 PM
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"Cut the racist crap, my husband donated money to Colin Powell!"
by Anonymous | reply 73 | April 4, 2024 8:02 PM
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I enjoy her in The Gilded Age but she’s playing for comedy and doesn’t have much to do.
Cynthia Nixon is surprisingly affecting, given her disastrous performance in AJLT.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | April 5, 2024 5:26 PM
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She is not serious in The Gilded Age? Is she trying to be the American Maggie Smith?
by Anonymous | reply 75 | August 29, 2024 3:32 AM
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R13 Why was she cast as Mame when she's a Vera?
by Anonymous | reply 76 | August 29, 2024 5:45 AM
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She reminds me of my college advisor at BHSEC.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | August 29, 2024 6:23 AM
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Her pussy smells like Charlie Girl, Doritos, and Glade Apple Orchard air freshener.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | August 29, 2024 6:30 AM
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Wasn't she married to Edward Hermann in a movie or TV series?
by Anonymous | reply 79 | August 29, 2024 4:48 PM
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