Julianna Margulies
- Actress
- Producer
- Executive
Julianna Margulies was born on June 8, 1966 in Spring Valley
(near New York City), as the youngest of three daughters of Francesca
(Goldberg), a teacher and dancer in American Ballet, and Paul Margulies,
an advertising writer and philosopher. She is of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage (from Romania, Austria, Hungary, and Russia). Until beginning high school in New
Hampshire at age 14, she lived several years with her family in Paris
and in England. She obtained a B.A. degree in liberal arts from Sarah
Lawrence College, where she appeared in several plays on campus. She
jobbed as a waitress until her first role as a prostitute looking to go
straight in
Out for Justice (1991). It took
more than a year to find another role; during that time, she managed to
support herself from several regional theater productions and national
TV ads. Until she became a regular in
ER (1994), she guest starred in several
television series and a pilot. Since then, she has starred in several
films, including Ghost Ship (2002),
Evelyn (2002), and
Snakes on a Plane (2006), and
headlines the CBS drama
The Good Wife (2009), for which
she has won both an Emmy and a Golden Globe.