Julianna Luisa Margulies (pronounced /d?u?li???n? m??r???li?s/; born June 8, 1966) is an American actress and producer.
After several small television roles, Margulies achieved success in her regular 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 the female iguanadon, Neera, in Disney’s CGI film Dinosaur (2000). In 2009, she took the lead role in the American legal drama The Good Wife on CBS, for which she has won a Golden Globe and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. She won the 2011 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her performance as Alicia Florrick on The Good Wife.
Majored in art history at Sarah Lawrence College; spent junior year abroad in Florence, Italy.
Offered a role in Face/Off (1997) but turned it down.
Born to Paul Margulies, an advertising writer, best known for an Alka-Seltzer catch phrase, and his wife Francesca, a ballet dancer, she is the youngest of three daughters.
Attended grade School at Green Meadow School in Spring Valley.
One of People Magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful People in the World” (1998).
Is left handed.
Met her former boyfriend, Ron Eldard, in an acting class in 1991. They broke up in 2003.
Julianna’s sister Alexandra Margulies appeared as a flight attendant in her final episode of “ER” (1994).
Julianna is the only cast member of “ER” (1994) to have ever received an Emmy Award, plus she has been awarded the Screen Actors Guild Award for “Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series” two years in a row (1998 and 1999).
Has 2 Abyssinian cats.
Wears a size 5 dress.
Measurements: 35-23-34 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
Has a B.A. degree in liberal arts from Sarah Lawrence College.
Wedding dress was designed by Narciso Rodríguez.
Her parents are Jewish, although her mother converted to Christianity when Julianna was five years old.
Julianna and her husband, Keith Lieberthal, became the parents of a boy, Kieran Lindsay Lieberthal, on January 17, 2008.
She has starred in two series that are set in Chicago: “ER” (1994) and “The Good Wife” (2009).
