Julianna Margulies

Julianna Margulies is an Emmy Award winning television and film actress who attracted audience attention for her role as Nurse Carol Hathaway on the television series ER. With several film and television credits to her name, Margulies also acted in the Fox drama Canterbury's Law where she played the character of Elizabeth Canterbury, a lawyer that would do anything to avoid her home life and win her case.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000523/ http://www.sonypictures.com/tv/shows/canterburyslaw/

In 2011, Margulies received a Golden Globe nomination for the best performance by an actress in a dramatic television series for her role as Alicia Florrick in The Good Wife.http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/22/arts/television/22good.html http://www.goldenglobes.org/blog/2010/12/the-68th-annual-golden-globe-awards-nominations/ In The Good Wife she plays the wife of a jailed politician trying to pull her life back together.http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/22/arts/television/22good.html Other actors nominated for this award include Elisabeth Moss, Piper Perabo, Katey Sagal, and Kyra Sedgwick.http://www.goldenglobes.org/blog/2010/12/the-68th-annual-golden-globe-awards-nominations/

Daughter of a ballet dancer and a song writer, Margulies grew up in New York and attended Sarah Lawrence College where she had the oppurtunity to appear in several college plays.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000523/bio After college, she attended The Acting Studio in New York City and got her first feature role playing a prostitute in the Steven Seagal film Out for Justice.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000523/bio Cast on the medical series ER in 1994, Margulies played Nurse Hathaway, who after a relationship with character Doctor Doug Ross, played by George Clooney, attempted suicide.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000523/bio

"I feel sexy when I'm happy. If I'm going out on a date with my husband, I want to feel sexy. I want him to see me that way. So I think you have to make an effort. When you're in love, you feel sexy."—Julianna Margulieshttp://www.harpersbazaar.com/magazine/cover/julianna-margulies-interview

"I'm one of those strange people: I really love going to the gym."—Julianna Margulieshttp://www.harpersbazaar.com/magazine/cover/julianna-margulies-interview

"This friend invited me to an impromptu party; I walked in, and there was my husband, sitting at a table. So we met totally by accident."—Julianna Margulieshttp://www.redbookmag.com/fun-contests/celebrity/julianna-margulies-interview

• 1991: Out for Justice

• 1993: Law & Order"

• 1993: Murder, She Wrote

• 1994: "Philly Heat

• 1994-2000: ER

• 2008: "Canterbury's Law

• 2009-present: The Good Wifehttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000523/filmoyear