The same year she made her debut for the broadway appearing in Hide and Seek. Her second Broadway act was The Real Thing for which she got Tony award for the Best Actress in a Play. In 2002 she applied at the Kennedy Center for the play, Sweeney Todd. For this play, she was awarded the Halen Hayes award for the Outstanding actress in a musical. In addition to this, she has also done concerts.

In her career, she won Tony awards and Drama Desk award twice which is a very tough feat to achieve. Although more focussed on broadways she has also done movies and TV shows from time to time. She did Cybill and won Emmy award for best-supporting actress in a comedy series. In this show, she played a role of a drunk girlfriend. This show, however, was canceled in 1998 due to some financial issues and so Christine moved on to another show such as Ugly Betty, Welcome to New York and 3rd Rock From The Sun. She later joined the cast of The Big Bang Theory for which she got two Emmy nominations. In 2009 she started appearing in the drama series The Good Wife.

In addition to this, she has also done some movies such as Addams Family Values, Mamma Mia, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and much more. She has garnered praise and awards wherever she went. Her talent knows no boundaries which are evident by the hundreds of award that she got throughout her career which is still not over. She is the most respected actress in the Hollywood and rightly so.

She has never been in any controversies and has lived an inspiring life while helping others to do good as well. All the award justify what a wonderful women and actress she really is. She married actor Mathew Cowles in 1983 and never went through any kind of rough patches or divorce in between. She remained with her husband till his death in 2014. She has two very talented daughters. The older daughter is currently working for a district attorney in Brooklyn. Her net worth is estimated to be around $14 million. Her biography can be read at wikipidia.com.