Christine Baranski

And, you know, once he saw me in plays in high school, whatever he would have seen.

Oh, come on.

You know, this girl's...

This girl's got talent.

Yes, I think in my imaginative life, I was always in front of an audience.

But I remember getting to high school, and in my freshman year of high school,

watching backstage.

I worked backstage doing, you know, helping with costumes and all.

I remember sitting backstage and watching the girls who were performing, thinking, oh my God, how are they doing that?

Anyway, the following year, I think I auditioned for a play, and we had this wonderful drama teacher in high school, and her name was Miranda Curry, and she was a former opera singer and ballet dancer.

Miranda Curry.

Miranda Curry.

She had a marvelous voice.

I didn't realize she was Australian.

She certainly sounded English.

She had flaming red hair.

She was rather, think Maggie Smith, because she had this aquiline nose.

She had a rather impeccable manners.

And she saw something in me, and suddenly I was doing the leads in plays from my junior year and then my senior year.

Of course, I was cast as Mame in Mame, and I was the lead in the senior class play.