About The Cast

A two-time Academy Award® winner and recipient of a record-breaking 14 Oscar® nominations, MERYL STREEP (Donna) has portrayed an astonishing array of roles in a career that has cut its own unique path from the theatre through film and television.

Most recently, Streep appeared opposite Robert Redford and Tom Cruise in Lions for Lambs, which Redford also directed, and in New Line's Rendition, with Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal. She will next appear opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams in Doubt, and opposite Stanley Tucci and Amy Adams in Nora Ephron's Julie & Julia.

Streep made her film debut in 1977's Julia, opposite Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave. In her second screen role, she starred opposite Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken in The Deer Hunter, which earned Streep her first Academy Award® nomination. The following year, she won an Academy Award® for her role opposite Dustin Hoffman in Kramer vs. Kramer. She then received her third Academy® nomination for The French Lieutenant's Woman and later went on to win the Oscar® for Best Actress for her role in Sophie's Choice, where she starred alongside Peter MacNicol and Kevin Kline.

Other early film credits include Streep's Oscar®-nominated performances in Mike Nichols' Silkwood; Sydney Pollack's Out of Africa; Ironweed, directed by Hector Babenco; and Fred Schepisi's A Cry in the Dark, which also won her the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival, The New York Film Critics Circle and an AFI award. She also appeared in Falling in Love with Robert De Niro, Mike Nichols' Heartburn and Woody Allen's Manhattan.

In the 1990s, Streep took on a variety of roles including She-Devil and Postcards from the Edge, for which she received Golden Globe nominations and an Oscar® nomination for the latter; Defending Your Life, with Albert Brooks; Death Becomes Her, opposite Goldie Hawn and Bruce Willis; The House of the Spirits; The River Wild; Clint Eastwood's screen adaptation of The Bridges of Madison County, which won her a SAG Award and Golden Globe and Oscar® nominations; Marvin's Room, with Diane Keaton and Leonardo DiCaprio, which earned her another Golden Globe nomination; Barbet Schroeder's Before and After; One True Thing, opposite Renée Zellweger, for which Streep received SAG, Golden Globe and Oscar® nominations as well as the Golden Camera Award at the Berlin International Film Festival; Dancing in Lughnasa; and Wes Craven's Music of the Heart, which earned Streep her twelfth Academy Award® nomination.

In 2003, Streep's work in The Hours won her SAG and Golden Globe nominations. That same year, her performance in Spike Jonze's Adaptation. won her a Golden Globe Award for Supporting Actress and BAFTA and Oscar® nominations. Streep's other recent works include The Manchurian Candidate; Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events; Prime, with Uma Thurman; Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion; Evening; and The Devil Wears Prada, which earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress as well as Academy Award®, SAG and BAFTA nominations.

In theater, Streep appeared in the 1976 Broadway double-bill of 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and A Memory of Two Mondays, the former which won her the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Theater World Award and a Tony nomination. Other theater credits include Secret Service; The Cherry Orchard; the New York Shakespeare Festival productions of Henry V and Measure for Measure, opposite Sam Waterston; the Brecht/Weill musical Happy End; Alice at the Palace, which won her an Obie; Central Park Productions of The Taming of the Shrew and The Seagull; and most recently, Streep appeared in the in Tony Kushner adaptation of Mother Courage.

On television, Streep won Emmys for the eight-part miniseries Holocaust and for the Mike Nichols-directed HBO movie Angels in America, which also won her Golden Globe and SAG Awards. Streep was also Emmy-nominated for her performance in ...First Do No Harm, which she also co-produced with director Jim Abrahams.

In 2004, Meryl was honored with an AFI Lifetime Achievement Award and in 2008, was honored by the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

Recognized internationally as one of the most dashing and skilled dramatic actors in Hollywood today, Golden Globe Award nominee PIERCE BROSNAN (Sam) received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture for his role as Julian Noble in the critically acclaimed film The Matador in 2005. Additionally, he received a nomination for this performance for Best Actor in a Lead Role from the Irish Film & Television Academy Awards.

Most recently, Brosnan starred with Chris Cooper and Patricia Clarkson in Married Life for director Ira Sachs. The film is a 1940s-set drama about a married man who cheats and, to spare his wife the shame of a divorce, plots to kill her.

In addition to his work in front of the camera, Brosnan has always had an interest in the art of filmmaking. Having achieved international stardom as an actor, Brosnan expanded the range of his film work by launching his own production company, Irish DreamTime, in 1996, along with producing partner Beau St. Clair.

Apart from The Matador, Irish DreamTime has produced five other films to date: The Nephew (1998), The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), Evelyn (2002), Laws of Attraction (2004) and Shattered (2007). The company's first studio project, The Thomas Crown Affair, was a critical and box-office success and one of the best-reviewed and highest-grossing romantic thrillers in years. Evelyn, directed by Bruce Beresford, opened to critical acclaim at the Chicago and Toronto international film festivals and also garnered rave reviews. Laws of Attraction, a romantic comedy that teamed Brosnan with Julianne Moore, focused on dueling divorce attorneys who fall in love. Shattered is a psychological thriller in which Brosnan stars with Maria Bello and Gerard Butler.

Upcoming projects for Irish DreamTime include the second installment of The Thomas Crown Affair.

Perhaps best known worldwide as James Bond, Brosnan reinvigorated the popularity of the Bond legacy in box-office blockbusters such as GoldenEye (1995), Tomorrow Never Dies (1999), The World Is Not Enough (1999) and Die Another Day (2002). Brosnan's first three Bond films earned more than a billion dollars at the international box office and Die Another Day alone garnered almost a half-billion dollars worldwide.

In addition to his four Bond films, three other Brosnan films-The Thomas Crown Affair, Dante's Peak (1997) and The Lawnmower Man (1992), combined, have earned hundreds of millions of dollars internationally, cementing him as one of the world's most-bankable stars.

Brosnan's other film credits include the Civil War drama Seraphim Falls (2007), in which he starred opposite Liam Neeson; John Boorman's critically acclaimed film from the John le Carré novel, The Tailor of Panama (2001); Bruce Beresford's Mister Johnson (1990); and Sir Richard Attenborough's Grey Owl (1999). In addition to The Matador, Brosnan has also shown his comedic skills in such films as Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) and Mars Attacks! (1996). He also had a supporting role alongside Barbra Streisand in The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996).

Some of his many accolades include the 2007 Golden Camera Award for his environmental work, a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2002 Chicago Film Festival, the International Star of the Year at the Cinema Expo International in Amsterdam, an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from the Dublin Institute of Technology, an Honorary Doctorate from the University College Cork and an Order of the British Empire bestowed by Her Majesty the Queen.

Brosnan was born in County Meath, Ireland, and moved to London at age 11. At 20, he enrolled in drama school and while in London, performed in several West End stage productions including Franco Zeffirelli's Fulimena and Tennessee Williams' The Red Devil Battery Sign at the York Theatre Royal. Brosnan relocated to Los Angeles in 1982 and immediately landed the role of private investigator Remington Steele on the popular ABC television series of the same name.

A classically trained British theater actor, COLIN FIRTH (Harry) is a veteran of film, television and stage, with an impressive body of work spanning more than two decades. Firth's versatility has been recognized in both dramas and comedies, garnering critical acclaim and awards including nominations from the Screen Actors Guild, an Emmy Award nomination and multiple BAFTA Award nominations. Firth is having a particularly prolific year, with four films scheduled for release this summer and several others in postproduction.

Then She Found Me surrounds a teacher in a midlife crisis, who reconnects with her biological mother whilst juggling a relationship with her ex-husband, played by Matthew Broderick, and a new interest, played by Firth. Then She Found Me was purchased for release by THINKFilm following the Toronto International Film Festival. The film was released in New York and Los Angeles on April 25, with a wide release on May 9.

In June, Firth stars in Sony Classics' film When Did You Last See Your Father? Firth and Jim Broadbent illustrate the complex relationship between a father and son on film, which is based on the best-selling memoir by Blake Morrison. The film screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2007. The film was released in the U.S. on June 6 and was released in the U.K. in 2007.

Firth has also recently wrapped production on Genova, directed by Michael Winterbottom. Firth stars opposite Catherine Keener in the film, which is a horror mystery story revolving around two American girls and their British father who move to Italy after their mother dies.

Also upcoming is the romantic comedy The Accidental Husband, starring Uma Thurman and directed by Griffin Dunne.

Firth has wrapped production on Robert Zemeckis' A Christmas Carol, a 3-D-animated version of the classic Dickens tale starring Jim Carrey and Gary Oldman. The film is scheduled for release in 2009. He has also wrapped production on Easy Virtue, based on Noel Coward's play. Firth stars opposite Jessica Biel and Ben Barnes in the film.

In 2005, Firth appeared in the film Nanny McPhee, written by, and also starring Emma Thompson. He also appeared in Atom Egoyan's controversial film Where the Truth Lies, opposite Kevin Bacon. The film screened in competition at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival.

In 2004, Firth starred in the Universal Pictures/Working Title hit Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. Firth reprised his role as Mark Darcy, opposite Renée Zellweger and Hugh Grant in the film, which is based on Helen Fielding's best-selling novel. The film broke numerous box-office records internationally and grossed more than $250 million worldwide.

In 2004, Firth appeared in the Oscar®-nominated film Girl With a Pearl Earring, opposite Scarlett Johanssen. Based on the best-selling novel by Tracy Chevalier, Firth portrayed the 17th-century artist Johannes Vermeer. Girl With a Pearl Earring screened at the Telluride Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, the Hollywood Film Festival, the London Film Festival and the San Sebastian International Film Festival. The film won both the Hitchcock d'Or and the Hitchcock d'Argent at the Dinard British Film Festival. Firth was nominated for a European Film Award for his performance in the film.

In 2003, Firth appeared in the Universal Pictures film Love Actually, written and directed by Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill). He appeared in the film with an outstanding ensemble cast including Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Liam Neeson, Laura Linney and Keira Knightley. At the time of its release, Love Actually broke box-office records as the highest-grossing British romantic comedy opening of all time in the U.K. and Ireland and was largest opening in the history of Working Title Films.

In 2002, Firth was seen starring opposite Rupert Everett, Reese Witherspoon and Judi Dench in the Miramax Film The Importance of Being Earnest. Prior to that, Firth appeared in the Academy Award®-winning film Shakespeare in Love, directed by John Madden. Firth portrayed Lord Wessex, the evil husband to Viola De Lesseps, played by Gwyneth Paltrow.

In 1996, Firth appeared in the multi-Oscar®-winning film The English Patient, opposite Kristin Scott Thomas and Ralph Fiennes. His other film credits include the Marc Evans thriller Trauma; What a Girl Wants; Hope Springs; Relative Values; A Thousand Acres, with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jessica Lange; Apartment Zero; My Life So Far; The Secret Laughter of Women; Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch; Circle of Friends; Playmaker; and the title role in Milos Forman's Valmont, opposite Annette Bening.

On the small screen, Firth is infamous for his breakout role in 1995, when he played Mr. Darcy in the BBC adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice," for which he received a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Actor and was honored with the National Television Award for Most Popular Actor. Firth's latest television appearance was in 2006 in the critically acclaimed BBC television movie Born Equal, directed by Dominic Savage (Out of Control). The film, which was shot with improvised dialogue, follows a wealthy businessman (Firth) as he struggles to help the less fortunate and finds himself inevitably drawn into their lives. In March 2004, Firth hosted NBC's legendary series Saturday Night Live. He was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2001 for Outstanding Supporting Actor in the critically acclaimed HBO film Conspiracy and has also received the Royal Television Society Best Actor Award and a BAFTA nomination for his performance in Tumbledown. His other television credits include Windmills on the Clyde: Making 'Donovan Quick,' Donovan Quick, Performance: The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd, Performance: The Deep Blue Sea, Hostages and the miniseries Nostromo. His London stage debut was in the West End production of Another Country, playing Bennett. He was then chosen to play the character Judd in the 1984 film adaptation, opposite Rupert Everett.

Firth is an active supporter of Oxfam International, an organization dedicated to fighting poverty and related injustice around the world. He is a co-director of Oxfam's Progreso Cafés, a chain of coffee bars founded with the intention of creating fair-trade opportunities for coffee cooperatives in Ethiopia, Honduras and Indonesia. In 2006, Firth was voted European Campaigner of the Year by European Voice magazine.

Firth resides in London, England, with his wife, Livia Giuggioli, and their children.

A major star in his native Sweden since the 1970s, STELLAN SKARSGÅRD (Bill) has become an international star of considerable reputation. He became a teen star in 1968 after playing the title role in the TV miniseries Bombi Bitt och jag.

From 1972 to 1988, he was employed at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, where he starred in such productions as Vita rum (1988), Ett drömspel (1986) and Master Olof (1988), working with directors such as Alf Sjöberg, Per Verner-Carlsson and Ingmar Bergman.

Skarsgård has appeared in more than 50 films since 1982. His performance in Hans Alfredson's The Simple-Minded Murder (1982) garnered him both a Guldbagge (Swedish Oscar®) and a Silver Berlin Bear. He also played the lead in the Oscar®nominated Oxen, directed by the world-renowned cinematographer Sven Nykvist.

His first English-language role was in Philip Kaufman's The Unbearable Lightness of Being in 1988. He followed that with his role as Russian submarine captain Tupolev in John McTiernan's The Hunt for Red October in 1990. But his breakthrough came with his riveting performance as the paraplegic in Lars von Trier's much-lauded Breaking the Waves, opposite Emily Watson, in 1996. He made two more films with von Trier: Dancer in the Dark (2000) and Dogville (2003).

Following Breaking the Waves, Skarsgård landed several supporting roles in high-profile American films such as Gus Van Sant's Good Will Hunting (1997) and Steven Spielberg's Amistad (1997), both for which he won the Outstanding European Achievement in World Cinema at the European Film Awards in 1998, and John Frankenheimer's Ronin (1998). Other leading role credits in American and international cinema include Erik Skjoldbjaerg's Insomnia; Renny Harlin's Deep Blue Sea; Hans Petter Moland's Aberdeen, for which he received a Best Actor nomination at the European Film Awards in 2000; Mike Figgis' Timecode; Stewart Sugg's Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang); Daniel Sackheim's The Glass House; and István Szabó's Taking Sides, for which he received another Best Actor nomination at the European Film Awards in 2001 and won Best Actor at the Mar del Plata Film Festival.

More recently, Skarsgård played Father Merrin in Renny Harlin's Exorcist: The Beginning; Cerdic in Antoine Fuqua's King Arthur, opposite Clive Owen; Father Merrin, again in Paul Schrader's Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist; King Hrothgar in Sturla Gunnarsson's Beowulf & Grendel; and, most notably, Bootstrap Bill, a compassionate and interesting portrait of a man losing himself bit by bit, in Gore Verbinski's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, opposite Johnny Depp. He was also seen as the painter Goya in Milos Forman's Goya's Ghosts, with Javier Bardem and Natalie Portman.

Skarsgård recently completed filming Duncan Ward's Boogie Woogie, opposite Gillian Anderson, Heather Graham and Amanda Seyfried.

A two-time Academy Award® nominee, JULIE WALTERS (Rosie) was most recently seen reprising her role as the maternal Mrs. Weasley in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the role she has played in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

Walters was also seen last year in Julian Jarrold's Becoming Jane, a biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen, in which she played Mrs. Austen to Anne Hathaway's Jane.

Walters gained her first Oscar® nomination in 1984 for her feature film debut in the title role in Educating Rita, for which she also won BAFTA and Golden Globe awards. She earned her second Oscar® nod for her performance in Stephen Daldry's Billy Elliot. Her portrayal of Billy's ballet teacher in that film also brought her BAFTA, Empire, Evening Standard Film and London Film Critics' Circle awards, in addition to Golden Globe and European Film award nominations, and two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, one for Supporting Actress and a second, shared with her cast mates, for Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Theatrical Motion Picture.

Walters has also earned BAFTA Award nominations for her roles in Personal Services and Stepping Out, having won a Variety Club ShowBiz Award for the latter. Walters includes among her other film credits Jeremy Brock's Driving Lessons, with her Harry Potter son Rupert Grint; Richard E. Grant's Wah-Wah; Nigel Cole's Calendar Girls; Lewis Gilbert's Before You Go; Roger Michell's Titanic Town; Girls' Night; Philip Goodhew's Intimate Relations; Nancy Meckler's Sister My Sister; Christopher Monger's Just Like a Woman; David Green's Buster; and Stephen Frears' Prick Up Your Ears.

Walters has also worked extensively on television in the U.K. and recently won three consecutive BAFTA Television Awards in 2002, 2003 and 2004 for her roles in Strange Relations and Murder, for which she also won a Royal Television Society Award, and the series The Canterbury Tales, for which she also won a Broadcasting Press Guild Award. She previously earned four BAFTA Television Award nominations: in 1983, for the miniseries Boys From the Blackstuff; in 1987, for the series Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV; in 1994, for the telefilm The Wedding Gift; and in 1999, for the series Dinnerladies. Her television credits also include The Ruby in the Smoke, Ahead of the Class, The Return, Oliver Twist, Jake's Progress, Pat and Margaret, The Summer House, Julie Walters and Friends, Talking Heads and The Birthday Party, to name only a few.

An accomplished stage actress, Walters won an Olivier Award in 2001 for her performance in Arthur Miller's All My Sons and was earlier nominated for an Olivier for her work in Sam Shepard's Fool for Love. She made her London stage debut in Educating Rita, creating the role that she would later bring to the screen. Her theater credits also include productions of such plays as Jumpers, Having a Ball, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout, Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo and the musical Acorn Antiques.

In addition to her acting work, Walters saw her first novel, "Maggie's Tree," published in 2006.

DOMINIC COOPER (Sky) is quickly emerging as one of the most exciting talents in the industry. He is best known for his lauded performance as Dakin in the critically acclaimed play The History Boys, which garnered him both Drama Desk and Evening Standard award nominations. After reprising the role in the highly praised film adaptation, Cooper was nominated for the Best Newcomer Award by the British Independent Film Awards and Best Supporting Actor by the London Film Critics' Circle and was named one of Rolling Stone's Breakout Performances for 2006.

Upon completion of his professional training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), Cooper landed a role in Mother Clap's Molly House at the prestigious National Theatre under resident director Nicholas Hytner. Subsequently, he starred in the Royal Shakespeare Company's A Midsummer Night's Dream, before rejoining Hytner at the National Theatre for His Dark Materials and The History Boys. Winner of three Olivier Awards including Best New Play, The History Boys tells the story of a group of British students and their professors as they prepare for life and the pursuit of higher learning. Written by Alan Bennett, The History Boys was made into a Fox Searchlight film, and the stage production toured Japan and New Zealand before landing on Broadway in 2006, where it was the recipient of six Tony Awards, including Best Play.

Cooper will be seen next in The Duchess, a film based on Amanda Foreman's biography of scandalous 18th-century English aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. Directed by Saul Dibb, the film co-stars Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes. The Paramount Vantage production is scheduled to be released in September 2008.

Cooper also stars as James Lacey, a young, inexperienced con, in The Escapist, directed by Rupert Wyatt. Co-starring Brian Cox and Joseph Fiennes, the dramatic prison-escape thriller recently had its world premiere at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. THINKFilm is planning a fall 2008 release.

Most recently, Cooper completed filming a role in An Education, co-starring Emma Thompson, Peter Sarsgaard and Alfred Molina. The independent feature, directed by Lone Scherfig and written by famed author Nick Hornby, follows a 16-year-old's coming of age in 1960s London as she begins a relationship with a 30-year-old playboy.

Additionally, Cooper has completed filming Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, a screen adaptation of the best-selling David Foster Wallace short stories. Directed and adapted by John Krasinski, the film is currently in postproduction.

Cooper's other feature film credits include roles in the recent Tom Hanks-produced film Starter for 10, an adaptation by David Nicholls from his novel of the same name, which also premiered at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival; Boudica; I'll Be There; Neil Jordan's The Good Thief; and the Hughes brothers' From Hell.

Cooper was last seen as the dashing and handsome Willoughby in the acclaimed BBC production of "Sense and Sensibility." Based on the beloved Jane Austen novel, the two-part television miniseries, directed by John Alexander and adapted by Andrew Davies, recently aired as part of PBS' acclaimed Masterpiece series.

Later this year, Cooper will be seen opposite Sir Anthony Sher, Rupert Graves and Stephen Dillane in God on Trial, a BBC Two production airing in the fall. The 90minute television film tells the story of a group of Jews in the Auschwitz concentration camp, who question their faith and put God on trial for breaking his covenant to care for and protect them.

Cooper's additional television credits include a series regular role on BBC's Down to Earth, Sparkling Cyanide, BBC's The Gentleman Thief, Hallmark's Davison's Eyes and Steven Spielberg's acclaimed Band of Brothers.

Cooper currently resides in London.

With her notable roles in film and television, AMANDA SEYFRIED (Sophie) has quickly captured the attention of audiences and established herself as a breakout star.

Seyfried is currently in production on the Fox Atomic film Jennifer's Body, written by Diablo Cody (Juno) and directed by Karyn Kusama. Seyfried will star as Needy, who is best friends with Jennifer (Megan Fox), a possessed cheerleader who turns into a killer.

Most recently, Seyfried has received critical praise for her starring role in HBO's Golden Globe Award-nominated drama Big Love. She stars as Sarah Henrickson, the eldest teenage daughter of Bill (Bill Paxton) and Barb Hendrickson (Jeanne Tripplehorn), who struggles with growing up in a polygamist family. Big Love is returning for its third season in 2008.

The Pennsylvania native started her career with modeling at the age of 11. Seyfried soon turned to acting and landed her first contract role as Lucy Montgomery on As the World Turns in 2000. In 2002, All My Children signed her to the contract role of Joni Stafford.

Seyfried's television credits include a heart-wrenching performance of a rape victim in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; a role as the girlfriend of an ill young man in House; Justice, in which she played a young woman who accidentally kills an older man whom she'd been dating and is successfully defended by Victor Garber's character; and a role in the Veronica Mars pilot.

Her breakthrough role was in Mean Girls, the Lorne Michaels-Tina Fey-Paramount Pictures hit in the spring of 2004, in which Seyfried co-starred with Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams. They won the Best On-Screen Team Award at the MTV Movie Awards that year.

In 2005, she starred in Nine Lives, which screened at the Sundance Film Festival to great acclaim. Written and directed by Rodrigo García, the film also starred Sissy Spacek, Glenn Close, Holly Hunter, Robin Wright Penn and Dakota Fanning.

In 2006, Seyfried appeared in Alpha Dog, directed by Nick Cassavetes and starring Justin Timberlake, Sharon Stone, Emile Hirsch and Bruce Willis. Also in 2006, she starred in American Gun with Donald Sutherland, Forest Whitaker and Marcia Gay Harden.

Seyfried currently divides her time between Los Angeles and New York.

One of the entertainment industry's most honored actresses, CHRISTINE BARANSKI (Tanya) has achieved acclaim in every medium in which she has performed. The two-time Tony, Emmy, Screen Actors Guild and American Comedy award winner recently starred opposite Ray Romano in Welcome to Mooseport and opposite Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Richard Gere in the Academy Award®-winning film Chicago. Other film credits include The Guru, opposite Heather Graham and Marisa Tomei; the box-office hit Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas; Bowfinger, opposite Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy; the wildly controversial Bulworth, opposite Warren Beatty; and Cruel Intentions, opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon.

A native of Buffalo, Baranski developed a passion for acting while performing in high-school productions and read about Juilliard's acting program, which was only a year old at the time. After graduating from Juilliard, she began earning roles in regional productions and off-Broadway. She received her big break when she was cast in Tom Stoppard's hit Broadway comedy The Real Thing, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Glenn Close and Jeremy Irons. In that same year, she also married, gave birth to her first child and won a Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for her performance.

Baranski went on to earn a second Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for her performance as a chain-smoking hyperkinetic in Neil Simon's Rumors, and a Drama Desk Award for Lips Together, Teeth Apart, in a role that was written for her by Terrence McNally. Additional appearances on the Great White Way include Hurlyburly and The House of Blue Leaves.

Baranski co-starred with Nathan Lane and Robin Williams in the box-office smash The Birdcage, for which she received a Screen Actors Guild Award. She also costarred in Jeffrey, the film based on Paul Rudnick's acclaimed off-Broadway play about gay life in the age of AIDS. Past roles include the memorable mistress of Claus von Bülow in Reversal of Fortune and parts in Legal Eagles, The Ref, Lovesick, Addams Family Values, Life With Mikey and 9½ Weeks.

In addition to an Emmy Award for the hit CBS comedy Cybill, Baranski received an American Comedy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy, as well a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy. She also received three additional Emmy and three Golden Globe award nominations. Baranski also starred with John Larroquette on the NBC sitcom Happy Family.

In addition to her films, Baranski was seen in the Los Angeles production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. She was also seen as a guest on Frasier, for which she received a fifth Emmy Award nomination.

Baranski divides her time between Connecticut and Los Angeles.

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