Julianna Margulies
Highest Rated: 83% City Island (2009)
Lowest Rated: 15% Ghost Ship (2002)
Birthday: Jun 8, 1966
Birthplace: Spring Valley, New York, USA
Julianna Margulies won multiple Emmy awards and a legion of fans for her portrayal of two strong, complex women on television series: head nurse Carol Hathaway on "ER" (NBC 1994-2009) and lawyer Alicia Florrick on "The Good Wife" (CBS, 2009-2016). Born Julianna Luisa Margulies on June 8, 1966 in Spring Valley, New York, she was one of three daughters by advertising executive Paul Margulies and his wife, ballet instructor Francesca Goldberg. She spent much of her childhood abroad, living in England, France and Israel before settling in New York City; she attended High Mowing School in New Hampshire before studying art history at Sarah Lawrence College. While there, she appeared in several school productions, and decided to make acting her chosen profession after graduation. Her screen debut came opposite action star Steven Seagal in John Flynn's 1991 action-crime thriller "Out for Justice," and was soon followed by guest roles on NBC series like "Law & Order" (1990-2010) and "Homicide: Life on the Street" (1993-96). In 1994, she booked what was intended as a one-time appearance on "ER," playing Carol Hathaway, an emergency room nurse who attempted suicide over her failed relationship with a pediatrician, played by series regular George Clooney. But positive response to her performance by focus groups prompted the show's producers to make Hathaway one of the show's main characters. She soon blossomed into one of the show's moral anchors as well as one of its most complicated: Hathaway endured several failed relationships, survived a hostage situation, overcame professional setbacks and eventually raised two twin daughters on her own before Clooney's Doug Ross, repentant after a decade of hard living, reunited with her in the show's final season. Marguiles' performance earned six Emmy nominations, including a win in 1995, and four Golden Globe nominations, and led to supporting roles in several independent features, including Bruce Beresford's "Paradise Road" (1997) and Richard Linklater's "The Newton Boys" (1998). A desire for more substantive work in films and on stage led to her departure from "ER" in 2000, but after winning a Emmy nomination as the sorceress Morgan Le Fay in Uli Edel's TV miniseries take on "The Mists of Avalon" (TNT, 2001), Marguiles' film efforts were largely relegated to underperforming features like "The Man from Elysian Fields" (2001) and "Ghost Ship" (2004). By 2006, she had returned to television, where she enjoyed a four-episode run as a drug-addicted real estate agent on "The Sopranos" (HBO, 1997-2007) and starred in the legal drama "Canterbury's Law" (Fox, 2008). The series lasted just six episodes, but she rebounded in 2009 with "The Good Wife," a legal drama about the wife of a Chicago politician who takes a job at a law firm after her husband is caught in a scandal. Her performance as Alicia Florrick - whose character arced from wounded spouse to strong independent woman and finally, a political aspirant whose ambitions are undone by her own scandal - again resonated with viewers and critics alike, and earned her two Emmys, three Screen Actors Guild Awards and a Golden Globe before the series came to a close in 2016. Margulies again made appearances in a handful of independent films before returning to series work, first as a vindictive fashionista in the short-lived AMC series "Dietland" (2018) and later, as a doctor battling a possible Ebola outbreak in the National Geographic miniseries "The Hot Zone."
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Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Millers in Marriage | Unknown (Character) | - | 2024 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Undeniable: The Truth to Remember | Host | - | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Hate We Can't Forget: A Holocaust Memorial Special | Host | - | 2022 |
43% |
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Three Christs | Ruth (Character) | $37.3K | 2017 |
43% |
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The Upside | Lily (Character) | $108.2M | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Above the Drowning Sea | Narrator | - | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Last Gold | Narrator | - | 2016 |
37% |
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Stand Up Guys | Nina Hirsch (Character) | $3.3M | 2012 |
83% |
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City Island | Joyce Rizzo (Character) | $6.7M | 2009 |
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Beautiful Ohio | Mrs. Cubano (Character) | - | 2006 |
69% |
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Snakes on a Plane | Claire Miller (Character) | $34.0M | 2006 |
No Score Yet |
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Slingshot | Karen (Character) | - | 2005 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Autism Is a World | Unknown (Character) | - | 2004 |
No Score Yet |
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The Grid | Unknown (Character) | - | 2004 |
No Score Yet |
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Hitler: The Rise of Evil | Unknown (Character) | - | 2003 |
64% |
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Evelyn | Bernadette Beattie (Character) | $1.4M | 2002 |
15% |
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Ghost Ship | Maureen Epps (Character) | $30.1M | 2002 |
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Jenifer | Jenifer's Psychiatrist (Character) | - | 2001 |
51% |
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The Man From Elysian Fields | Dena Tiller (Character) | $1.4M | 2001 |
50% |
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The Mists of Avalon | Unknown (Character) | - | 2001 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Mists of Avalon | Morgaine (Character) | - | 2001 |
52% |
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What's Cooking? | Carla (Character) | $1.0M | 2000 |
65% |
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Dinosaur | Neera (Voice) | $137.7M | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dinosaur | Neera (Voice) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | We Met on the Vineyard | Sara (Character) | - | 1999 |
57% |
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A Price Above Rubies | Rachel (Character) | $1.1M | 1998 |
65% |
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The Newton Boys | Louise Brown (Character) | $10.3M | 1998 |
43% |
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Paradise Road | Topsy Merritt (Character) | $1.9M | 1997 |
79% |
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Traveller | Jean (Character) | $500.6K | 1997 |
TV
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67% | 33% | The Morning Show | Laura Peterson (Character) | 2021 2023 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Grid | Unknown (Character) | 2004 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Be My Guest With Ina Garten | Self | 2022 |
No Score Yet | 49% | The Late Show With Stephen Colbert | Guest | 2015-2016 2019 2021 |
No Score Yet | 62% | The Kelly Clarkson Show | Guest | 2021 |
No Score Yet | 61% | Late Night With Seth Meyers | Guest | 2014 2018 2021 |
No Score Yet | 28% | The Drew Barrymore Show | Guest | 2021 |
No Score Yet | 41% | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Guest | 2011-2012 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Super Soul | Guest | 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | American Masters | Narrator | 2020 |
57% | 75% | The Hot Zone | Dr. Nancy Jaax (Character) | 2019 |
81% | 72% | Dietland | Kitty Montgomery (Character) | 2018 |
No Score Yet | 29% | Unapologetic With Aisha Tyler | Guest | 2018 |
No Score Yet | 44% | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2014-2015 2018 |
No Score Yet | 60% | Nightcap | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2017 |
41% | 61% | Chelsea | Guest | 2016 |
93% | 91% | The Good Wife | Alicia Florrick (Character) | 2009-2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Finding Your Roots | Guest | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Funny or Die's Billy on the Street | Guest | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Variety Studio: Actors on Actors | Guest | 2015 |
100% | 90% | Late Show With David Letterman | Guest | 2013 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Guest | 2012 2014-2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen | Guest | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Late Night With Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2009-2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rachael Ray | Guest | 2009-2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sesame Street | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2010 |
No Score Yet | 85% | ER |
Head Nurse Carol Hathaway (Character), Unknown (Guest Star) |
1994-2000 2009 |
58% | No Score Yet | Canterbury's Law | Elizabeth Canterbury (Character) | 2008 |
92% | 96% | The Sopranos | Julianna Skiff (Guest Star) | 2006-2007 |
77% | 75% | The Lost Room | Jennifer Bloom (Character) | 2006 |
83% | 86% | Scrubs | Neena (Guest Star) | 2004 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Mists of Avalon | Morgaine (Character) | 2001 |
No Score Yet | 62% | Saturday Night Live | Host | 2000 |
91% | 89% | Homicide: Life on the Street | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1994 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | Rachel Novaro (Guest Star) | 1993 |
No Score Yet | 83% | Law & Order | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1993 |