As an Emmy, Golden Globe, and 7 time Screen Actors Guild award winner, Julianna Margulies has achieved success in television, theatre, and film.
On television, Margulies can currently be seen starring in the CBS hit The Good Wife, which was recently picked up for a second season. The show has been #1 in its time slot since it premiered on September 22nd. In it, Margulies portrays a wife and mother, who must assume full responsibility for her family and re-enter the workforce as a trial lawyer, after her politician husband gets caught in a very public sex scandal. The show co-stars Christine Baranski, Josh Charles, and Chris Noth.
In film, Margulies can currently be seen in theatres in City Island, co-starring Andy Garcia, Alan Arkin, and Emily Mortimer. The comedy follows a family that experiences the unraveling of their shared web of lies. The film won the Audience Award at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival, and will be release on March 19, 2010.
Margulies recently starred as Elizabeth Canterbury, a criminal defense attorney in the Fox Network drama Canterbury's Law. In addition to starring in the show, Margulies acted as producer alongside Denis Leary and Jim Serpico of Apostle Productions. She also played a multi-episode guest role in HBO's The Sopranos, opposite James Gandolfini. Other television credits include The Grid, a mini-series from TNT and BBC opposite Dylan McDermott, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination, as well as TNT's original mini-series The Mists of Avalon opposite Anjelica Huston and Joan Allen. She also starred as one of the original members of the groundbreaking show ER for which she received both an Emmy Award and SAG Award as nurse Carole Hathaway.
Margulies' feature film credits include David R. Ellis' Snakes on a Plane opposite Samuel L. Jackson; the dark comedy, The Darwin Awards, directed by Finn Taylor opposite Winona Ryder and Joe Fiennes; Jay Alaimo's Slingshot opposite David Arquette and Balthazar Getty; Steve Beck's Ghost Ship opposite Gabriel Byrne; and Bruce Beresford's Evelyn opposite Pierce Bronson. Other film credits include What's Cooking, an ensemble drama directed by Gurinder Chadha; Richard Linklater's The Newton Boys, Boaz Yakin's A Price Above Rubies, Jack Green's Traveller, Bruce Beresford's Paradise Road, and George Hickenlooper's film, The Man From Elysian Fields," opposite Andy Garcia and Mick Jagger.
On stage, Margulies made her Broadway debut in 2006 starring in Festen opposite Michael Hayden, Larry Bryggman, Ali MacGraw, and Jeremy Sisto. Margulies completed a successful run in Jon Robin Baitz's Ten Unknowns at Lincoln Center opposite Donald Sutherland for which she won the Lucille Lortel Award. Other theater credits include The Vagina Monologues both Off Broadway and in the Los Angeles premiere, Fefu and Her Friends for the Yale Repertory Theatre, The Substance of Fire at the Aolso Theatre, Living Expenses, Dan Drift, and Book of Names at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York, and Intrigue with Faye at the NY Stage and Film Festival. She also appeared on stage in The Lover, In the Boom Boom Room, and Balm and Gilead.
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