Julianna Luisa Margulies /dʒuːliˈɑːnə mɑːrɡəˈliːs/ (born June 8, 1966) is an American actress and producer.

After several small television roles, Margulies achieved both critical and commercial success in her role as Nurse Carol Hathaway on NBC's long-running 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 Neera in Disney's CGI film Dinosaur. In 2009, she took the lead role of Alicia Florrick in the American legal drama The Good Wife on CBS, for which she has won a Golden Globe, a Television Critics Association Award, and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in both 2011 and 2014.

Margulies has won eight Screen Actor Guild Awards, which has made her the most awarded woman within SAG.

In 2015, Time featured her as one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World". She was also awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Biography

Margulies and actor Ron Eldard, whom she met in an acting class in 1991, dated for twelve years before splitting in 2003. Margulies and attorney Keith Lieberthal, the son of academic Kenneth Lieberthal, were married on November 10, 2007 in Lenox, Massachusetts. They have one child, a son named Kieran, and reside in Manhattan, New York City.

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