Christine Baranski

And because of my father's, you know, dying of an aortic aneurysm, he could have had a CAT scan.

He was predisposed.

Anyway, that almost broke her.

That was the greatest tragedy, my brother's death.

And then my mother came to Connecticut and I took care of my mother until...

She passed away at age 85.

That's a long life.

It's a long life.

Well, I think my father was a gentle, loving soul, and so I think I got that from my father's side of the family.

But my mother, because I lived with this really strong female woman who often bitterly complained that she was doing the same job and didn't get the same paycheck as her male colleagues, which was...

exactly right.

She worked so hard.

I think my work ethic and my ability to withstand the ups and downs of life I got from my mother.

I married a man who was a juvenile diabetic who then had health problems his whole life.

And I had to take him through his last days because he died in 2014.

He was 69 years old.

That's a long time to live with diabetes.

But, you know, living through my brother's death.

And, you know, you learn from people close to you how to deal with tragedy.

So she had a lot.