Christine Baranski

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.