Christine Baranski

Nice The Guardian article about her.

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.

She also has a love of tennis, hiking, wine, literature, and opera

A true class act all around

9th graders take summer classes at Oxford, too.

She married a pimp!

And yet I find her irritating as hell.

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.

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

Ungrateful bitch

R6 I don't think she'll every let anyone see her 'real' side

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

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.

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.

And yet she was a lousy Mame and a lousy Mrs. Lovett.

Every performance can't be a winner, R13.

Thanks R12. I've added at top of my list for this week's viewing pleasure. I love Swoozie and Mahoney.

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.

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.

And Swoosie was also in Dangerous Liaisons.

The CBS Sunday Morning Interview

The Rosie O'Donnell Interview

The Rosie Interview 1997

IS the Good Wife worth the watch? Is it legally accurate?

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.

I get her confused with other actresses that exude a similar pediatrician air.

[quote]pediatrician air

Yet, she always plays rich women and rarely, if ever, played a doctor.

[quote] I get her confused with other actresses that exude a similar pediatrician air.

Oh my fucking dear, R24.

I actually enjoyed her Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd. The only real weakness in that production was Kelsey MAGAer in the title role.

Blue Leaves...

The Good Wife was a great show. Lots of clever plottting.

Ben Stiller sucked in that play

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.

[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.

Her finest moments as an actress were as Dr. Beverly Hofstadter. Comic gold.

Thread closed.

The Good Wife was great and The Good Fight was even better, IMO, as it focused on her.

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.

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.

Is there a CD of Baranski/Stokes? They have to sign well

[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

Another vote for her in The Addams Family Values

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".

Her last stop awaits…

Hilarious in The Ref with Judy Davis and Glynis Johns.

R5 = Cybil Shepard

I always enjoy the rerun of Frasier where she played a thinly veiled Dr. Laura type with mommy issues.

Another Second Banana.

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

WHET her nepo baby Lily?

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.

R48 Any links?

Links to bad behavior? I thought her co-star, Cybil, was the cunt.

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.

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

R49

You're right; I should have provided links if I was going to suggest that. I'm not making it up, but...

Here are Baranski and Stokes doing A Little Priest:

[quote] whether pedestrian or outlandish.

Oh dear - obviously, you mean "pediatrician"

[quote]Cybil Shepard

Two words, and you got them both wrong. Brava!

[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?

[quote]Plus he was "BILLY CLYDE TUTTLE"

TUGGLE

You too, R40.

R55, you can come have a seat by me.

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.

R60 she was performing

She wasn’t able to save Nick & Nora.

And during previews we rewrote her big number. Neither song worked.

I enjoyed her Broadway performances, especially The Real Thing and Rumors. She won a Tony award (supporting actress) for each.

Loved her in Frasier as Dr. Nora

Awesome narrator for Joyce Carol Oates' creepy story "Where are you going? Where have you been?"!

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.

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.

N & N

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.

PS she is also magnificent audiobook narrator for DL Fave The First Wives’ Club.

She is a terrible person in Cruel Intentions, but love her in it.

Love the dress in the OP.

"Cut the racist crap, my husband donated money to Colin Powell!"

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.