Tony Winner Christine Baranski to Lead GOOD WIFE Spinoff on CBS

USA Today reveals that Christine Baranski will lead a new spinoff series of CBS's acclaimed drama THE GOOD WIFE, which ended its seven-season run on May 8th. Good Wife creators Robert and Michelle King will create the new project.

Cush Jumbo will also star in the currently un-titled series which will be offered exclusively online via CBS's All-Access streaming app. Ten to thirteen episodes of the drama will be produced.

According to the report, the show will center on "the firm headed by Baranski's Diane Lockhart, with Jumbo (who joined Wife in its final season) returning as Lucca Quinn. It will be told through the eyes of Diane's young goddaughter, the offspring of her wealthy college roommate, whose family isn't as picture-perfect as it seems."

Baranski is an Emmy, two-time Tony, Screen Actors Guild, Drama Desk, and American Comedy Award winner. She received her big break being cast in Tom Stoppard's hit Broadway comedy, The Real Thing, directed by Mike Nichols, for which she won a Tony Award and Drama Desk Award. She went on to earn a second Tony Award for her performance in Neil Simon's Rumors. She also appeared in Boeing-Boeing; Hurlyburly; The House of Blue Leaves; The Loman Family Picnic; Regrets Only; Encores! productions of Follies; Promises, Promises; and On Your Toes; and the KENNEDY Center productions of Sweeney Todd and Mame. Off Broadway, she appeared in five plays at the Manhattan Theatre Club, as well as in productions at Playwrights Horizons, Lincoln Center Theater, and the Public Theater. Regionally, she performed in works by Shakespeare, Chekhov, Molière, Shaw, Sam Shepard, and Jules Feiffer.

In addition to an Emmy for the hit CBS comedy, Cybill, Ms. Baranski received an American Comedy Award for "Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy." She also received three additional Emmy and three Golden Globe nominations. She was also seen as a guest on Frasier, for which she received a fifth Emmy nomination. She has appeared on multiple episodes of the CBS series, The Big Bang Theory, and received three Emmy nominations for "Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series." She is currently starring in the hit CBS series, The Good Wife, for which she received six Emmy nominations for "Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series" and two Critics' Choice Television Award Nominations. Her film credits include Miss Sloane, Into the Woods, Mamma Mia!, Chicago, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Bowfinger, Bulworth, Cruel Intentions, The Birdcage, Reversal of Fortune, Legal Eagles, The Ref, Addams Family Values, Welcome to Mooseport, The Guru, 9 ½ Weeks, and Jeffrey.

Photo Credit: Genevieve Rafter-Keddy

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