CHRISTINE BARANSKI

ACROSS STAGE AND SCREEN, SHE HAS MADE PORTRAYING FORMIDABLE, SELF-POSSESSED WOMEN HER SIGNATURE.

From her training at Juilliard through a five-decade, Emmy and two-time Tony Award-winning career, she has mastered the art of creating women as sharply defined as they are unforgettable—from Diane Lockhart in The Good Wife and The Good Fight to Agnes van Rhijn in The Gilded Age. Clothing has always been part of finding a character: shaping how she moves, stands and speaks—and expressing identity in her own life.

Behind an extraordinary range of characters, Baranski has remained unmistakably herself. “It’s always me, but it’s variations of me,” she says of the women she has portrayed—a through line that extends beyond performance to her own exacting sense of personal style: sophisticated, confident and quietly elegant. “As I go on in life, the idea of refining my identity, refining my sense of what is best, what looks best for me and what I most want to project to the world appeals to me.”