I adore clothes, I adore drinking. I just don't have the time or the inclination to totally indulge in it.

Lovett in Sweeney Todd in 2002 (for which Christine Baranski won the 2003 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical) and as the titular Mame in 2006. She is of Polish descent and her grandparents were actors in the Polish theater. She portrayed a librarian named Sonja Umdahl in the episode "Dick and the Single Girl" of the series 3rd Rock from the Sun.

Christine Jane Baranski (born May 2 1952) is an American stage and screen actress and is known for her Emmy Award-winning portrayal as Maryanne Thorpe in the sitcom Cybill Dr. Beverly Hofstadter (Leonard Hofstadter's mother) in The Big Bang Theory and her Emmy-nominated portrayal of Diane Lockhart in The Good Wife.