Christine Jane Baranski is an American actress and singer. She is a 15-time Emmy Award nominee, winning once in 1995 for her role as Maryann Thorpe in the sitcom Cybill. 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, Hurlyburly, The House of Blue Leaves, Nick & Nora, and Boeing Boeing.
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Christine Jane Baranski is an American actress and singer. She is a 15-time Emmy Award nominee, winning once in 1995 for her role as Maryann Thorpe in the sitcom Cybill. 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, Hurlyburly, The House of Blue Leaves, Nick & Nora, and Boeing Boeing. She has starred in numerous films, including 9½ Weeks, Legal Eagles, Reversal of Fortune, Addams Family Values, Jeffrey, The Birdcage, Bulworth, Cruel Intentions, Bowfinger, Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Chicago, Mamma Mia!, The Bounty Hunter, Into the Woods, A Bad Moms Christmas, and Mammamia Mia! Here We Go Again.
She also played Cinderella in the 2014 film adaptation of the musical Into The Woods. 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. In 2018 Baranski was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. She was born in Buffalo, New York, the daughter of Virginia and Lucien Baranski, who edited a Polish-language newspaper. Her grandparents were actors in the Polish theater. She attended high school at the Villa Maria Academy. She then studied at New York City’s Juilliard School.
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