Christine Baranski Net Worth

Christine Baranski's Quotes

• Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.
• I wish I didn't have to live up to anything.
• I went to one of the world's great music schools, Juilliard, to acting school and never had any voice training. It wasn't until my mid-twenties that I began to go and see a singing teacher, and I discovered I had a voice, but I never felt very much confidence about singing in public and rarely went up for musical auditions.
• I attribute the longevity of my career to the fact that I didn't have to carry that mantle [beauty]. I was never beautiful so I'm not unbeautiful. I may not have been a leading lady, but I had great clothes and funny lines. I think I had more flexibility.
• [on her 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award] It baffles me a little. Maybe it keeps me young, but I still feel like I have so much left to do. I don't feel there's a period at the end of this sentence yet.

Interesting Facts about Christine Baranski

1. May 28, 1991: Starred in the first production of Terrence McNally's play "Lips Together, Teeth Apart" with Swoosie Kurtz, Nathan Lane and Anthony Heald.
2. Connecticut-based, with husband Matthew Cowles. The couple have two daughters: Isabel Cowles (born 1984) and Lily Cowles (born 1987). Baranski and her husband raised their daughters without television, disapproving of the sexual content and violence on the small screen. Lily Cowles is an alumna of Princeton University.
3. Attended high school at the Villa Maria Motherhouse Complex. At age 19 at the Juilliard School, she was awarded $1,000 for living expenses as "the most hard-working, economically needy student." She later acknowledged spending the money to spend two months in Europe. She earned her bachelor's degree from Juilliard in 1974.
4. Daughter of Virginia (née Mazurowski) and Lucien Baranski, both of Polish descent. Her father edited a Polish-language newspaper. Her grandparents were theater actors.
5. Has won two Tony Awards as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play): in 1984 for Tom Stoppard's "The Real Thing" and in 1989 for "Rumors." In her acceptance speech for her second Tony Award for the Broadway play "Rumors," she announced that her win made her the 100th person to ever receive an award for working on or appearing in a Neil Simon production in film, television, or theater.
6. Studied acting with Michael Howard in New York City.
7. She won her first Tony Award in the Broadway play "The Real Thing," in which she played a woman having an affair with a character played by Jeremy Irons (who also won a Tony Award). Five years later, she appeared in the film Reversal of Fortune (1990), in which she again played a woman having an affair with a character played by Irons, who this time won an Oscar for his performance.
8. In an interview on NPR, she shared that her #1 football loyalty is to her hometown Buffalo Bills, but that she defaults to the New England Patriots if the Bills don't advance.
9. Before hitting it big on the TV series Cybill (1995), she had already completed close to 20 years' success in New York theater, both on and off Broadway, garnering wins in all major acting areas (Tony Award, Obie Award, Lortel Award, and Drama Desk Award), later winning an Emmy Award as well.
10. Baranski has said the most enjoyable film shoots she has done were the "Mamma Mia" films because she could "research" her character over martinis with old friend Meryl Streep after each daily wrap.
11. She auditioned for the role of Princess Leia in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977).