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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. He enrolled me in ballet school before he died. My father shouted “Bravo!,” and he was crying. At the curtain call, the audience was clapping, and the performers were waving their shawls. Shortly before he died, my father took me to Kleinhans Music Hall, which was the Carnegie Hall of Buffalo, to see a Polish singing troupe from Warsaw. I remember my deepest, most vivid memory of my father. So I would go and hear my parents and my grandparents sing at concerts, and music was very much a part of our life. My parents were also singers in an amateur Polish singing group. So when did the idea of performing enter the scene for you? She was a draftswoman in an air-conditioning factory. She had a permanent chip on her shoulder. She was raised in the Depression and walked to school with newspapers in her shoes and ate jelly sandwiches. I so admire my mom, but she was really the opposite of my grandmother. Actually, my mother never really dealt with the fact that my father had suddenly died, and all I felt was anxiety.

Looking back, I realize that that was a stunning loss for me, and it was never really dealt with. Then Nana wasn’t a part of my life anymore.

We wound up moving away from my childhood home, which was very dear, and I had to change schools. My mom and my grandma didn’t really get along. Yes, but sadly my father died abruptly, of an aortic aneurysm, and then it became a problem living with her. Our conversation has been condensed and edited. At the end of our chat, she insisted that we order chocolate ice cream. Baranski and I talked for two hours about her current projects, her theatrical past, and how she pulled off playing Auntie Mame with a hobbled knee.

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And soon she will appear in corsetry to spout withering lines in Julian Fellowes’s period series “The Gilded Age,” set in moneyed nineteenth-century Manhattan. She plays the crusading, hard-nosed lawyer Diane Lockhart on the CBS drama “The Good Fight,” whose fifth season débuted in June. A native of Buffalo, she attended Juilliard in the nineteen-seventies and then spent much of the eighties on Broadway before making a transition to Hollywood, in her forties-the role that finally lured her to California was playing Cybill Shepherd’s louche best friend on the nineties sitcom “Cybill.” She is a fan favorite in the “Mamma Mia!” movies, alongside her friend (and fellow Connecticut sometimes-resident) Meryl Streep. “I barely had time to take off my underwear,” she said.ĭrama seems to find Baranski. Ambroeus place, ordered three scoops of chocolate ice cream, and then headed up to the Met.” By the time she got home, she was so deep into labor that she had the baby within forty-five minutes of getting to the hospital. “I was wearing a white jumpsuit with large white buttons and looked rather like Frosty the Snowman. “It was a gloriously beautiful, early autumn day,” she e-mailed me later.

One day in September, she felt labor pains, but she didn’t want to bother her napping husband with them. She also became pregnant with her first child. She played a disgruntled, huffy actress named Charlotte, and won the first of her two Tonys, in the spring of 1984. (The couple stayed together for thirty years, until his death, in 2014.) A few weeks later, she went into rehearsal for Tom Stoppard’s “The Real Thing,” directed by Mike Nichols. The previous fall, she married the actor Matthew Cowles. 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. 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. 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.