Julianna Margulies

About this actor

Julianna Luisa Margulies (born June 8, 1966) is an American actress. After several small television roles, Margulies achieved success in her continuing role as Nurse Carol Hathaway on the NBC medical drama ER, for which she won an Emmy Award. After her departure from ER in 2000, Margulies appeared in the 2001 miniseries The Mists of Avalon and voiced the female iguanadon Neera in the animated film Dinosaur (2000). In 2009 she took the lead role in the American legal drama The Good Wife on CBS, for which she won a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Margulies, the youngest of three daughters, was born in Spring Valley, New York. Her mother, Francesca (née Gardner), was a ballet dancer and eurythmy teacher, and her father, Paul Margulies, was a writer who wrote the Alka-Seltzer catch phrase "Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz, oh what a relief it is". Her parents are Jewish, descended from immigrants from Austria, Hungary and Romania. The family lived in Israel for a time before Margulies...