Julianna Margulies

Julianna Margulies (/dʒuːliˈɑːnə mɑːrɡəˈliːs/; ('Mar-ga-lease') 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 Carol Hathaway on NBC's long-running medical drama ER, for which she won an Emmy Award. She also voiced Neera in Dinosaur (2000) and appeared in the miniseries The Mists of Avalon (2001). In 2009, she took on the lead role of Alicia Florrick in the American legal drama The Good Wife on CBS. Her performance has garnered acclaim: she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series twice, a Golden Globe, and a Television Critics Association Award. Margulies has won eight Screen Actor Guild Awards, which has made her the most awarded woman ever 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. 2Early life Julianna Margulies is the youngest of three daughters, born in Spring Valley, New York to Jewish parents whose ancestors emigrated from Eastern Europe. Her mother, Francesca (née Goldberg, later Gardner), was a ballet dancer and eurythmy teacher; and her father, Paul Margulies, was a writer, philosopher, and well-known Madison Avenue advertising executive. Her parents were both born Jewish (descended from immigrants from Romania, Austria, Hungary, and Russia). Margulies' mother Francesca converted to Christianity when her children were young, though Margulies herself still identifies as Jewis