Christine Baranski

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Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 18 July 2023

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Christine Baranski is an actor with an impressive resume. She attended Juilliard and went on to perform on Broadway. She's also an Emmy award winning actor, who's starred on shows like The Good Fight and The Good Wife. You'll soon be able to watch Christine Baranski in the animated sitcom Praise Petey. The show premieres July 21 on Freeform. When she joined us on Bullseye last year, she reflected on her time portraying Diane on The Good Fight. Plus, she talked about being one of the early graduates of Juilliard, and her long-time collaborated relationship with Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jessie Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:20.0	It's Bullseye, I'm Jessie Thorn.
0:21.8	My first guest this week is the brilliantly talented Christine Baranski.
0:26.1	She is an actor with an incredible resume. She went to Juilliard. She was on Broadway
0:31.2	and shows like the real thing, rumors and house of Blue Leaves.
0:35.1	She's won two Tony Awards. On the hit sitcom Sibles she played the title character's best
0:40.4	friend, Marianne. She won an Emmy in the very first season.
0:45.0	She is an iconic character actor with a distinctive look that commands your attention on the
0:50.6	screen. And she is an eye-op look. I'm not using this term lightly, a legend.
0:56.1	In 2009 she got a part on the CBS show The Good Wife. It's a legal and political drama
1:01.9	that starts Juliana Margolese. Baranski played Diane Lockhart on the show, a partner, at
1:07.7	the firm that Margolese character worked. Critics loved The Good Wife, millions watched
1:12.7	it and when the series wrapped, Baranski got her own spin-off, The Good Fight.
1:18.1	Once again, critics loved it, millions watched it. The Good Fight just started running its
1:22.3	sixth and final season. You can watch it on Paramount Plus.
1:26.6	The Good Fight's a drama, as was its predecessor, but The Good Fight is also pretty funny,
1:32.5	like in this clip which kicks off the show's fourth season. Diane just woke up in an alternate
1:37.5	reality. President Hillary Clinton is in the middle of her first term in the White House.
1:43.2	Fuller bears are thriving again. The rainforest is saved. A cure for cancer is on the horizon.
1:49.9	Diane, well Diane is confused and her coworkers are concerned.
1:55.7	Are you all right Diane? Liz, I have never been better. Don't you know the cancer was cured?
2:03.3	Yes, but the administration is not telling us how. But when?
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