5 Christine Baranski: So Good
When the 26th annual Critics Choice Awards show airs on the CW network (March 7), Baranski will once again be among the competitors for Best Actress in a Drama Series—receiving her seventh nomination for her role as Diane Lockhart, four times for The Good Wife and three times for The Good Fight. Here are some fun facts about the Emmy- and Tonywinning native New Yorker, 68.
She’s a huge sports fan who roots for her hometown Buffalo Bills. When they don’t make the playoffs, she switches to the New England Patriots.
Baranski has won two Tony Awards as Best Actress: in 1984 for Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing and in 1989 for Rumors.
W Baranski says the bravest career decision she ever made was in her 40s when she moved from theater to television for Cybill.
SMama Mia! was one of her favorite film shoots because she and Meryl Streep could “research” their characters over martinis after work each day.
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