At one point in her career, Christine Baranski was told by the head of a television network that no one was interested in her. Soon after, she won an Emmy Award. “I’m beating the odds here,” she said.
Christine Baranski suggested that we meet for a languorous lunch of salades Niçoise at Sant Ambroeus on the Upper East Side, near her new apartment. When I walked in, the actress, who is sixty-nine years old and five feet ten, was sitting at a corner table in a cornflower-blue sweater and tinted glasses, looking like a glamorous heron. She chose this exact table, she told me, because it reminds her of the “chocolate-ice-cream story.” Then she launched into a wistful monologue.
I grew up with people who loved performing arts, who loved music, who loved dancing, but I didn’t think of myself as destined for that life. It took me a long time to get to a point where I would audition for a play in high school. Then I wound up being the leading lady for the next two years. I was Mame in the senior-class play.a Mame theme! And I wound up doing Mame at the Kennedy Center, in 2006.
Meryl and he and I live in the same neck of the woods. We might knock on his door with takeout pizza and insist he sit with us in the back yard. I’m sure he’s very cautious, at ninety. He was definitely in quarantine.The very first thing was “Company.” I played April in a production when Playwrights Horizons had a theatre out in Queens. He came backstage. The second thing of Steve’s was the workshop of “Sunday in the Park with George.
When I was at Juilliard, the whole training was about being a theatre actor, and that was my dream—to be a great stage actress. I never thought of having a major film career. I didn’t think I had that kind of a look. I resisted television. I had quite a few wonderful offers. James L. Brooks offered me a comedy called “Sibs,” and I turned it down. I didn’t feel I could make the jump at that point.
No. I was not a Mama Rose, knowing how hard it is. My youngest, Lily, is indeed an actress. She’s on a show called “Roswell,” and she’s been in Santa Fe, and she’s having a wonderful time. But the older daughter, Isabel, who made her début in that Broadway theatre, is a writer now. Not an actress.
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