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.Before she played Diane Lockhart, she guest-starred as Leonard’s mother, Beverly Hofstadter, on The Big Bang Theory.Baranski has won two Tony Awards as Best Actress: in 1984 for Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing and in 1989 for Rumors.Mama Mia! was one of her favorite film shoots because she and Meryl Streep could “research” their characters over martinis after work each day.Baranski says the bravest career decision she ever made was in her 40s when she moved from theater to television for Cybill.Two of her early roles were minor recurring characters on the soap operas Another World and All My Children.She listens to a lot of baroque and classical music, but also claims there is nothing better than Motown.Baranski always knew she wanted to act. Her grandparents were Polish actors in Buffalo, New York, at the Polish-American theater.Her daughter Isabel is an attorney who worked in the Brooklyn district attorney’s office when Baranski was playing an attorney on The Good Wife.Baranski and her late husband raised their two daughters—Isabel, 37, and Lily, 34—without television, as they didn’t approve of the sex and violence.Despite attending famed music school Juilliard for acting, Baranski didn’t gain confidence in her singing until later in her career.Baranski consistently plays characters who are famous for being well dressed.
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