Julianna Luisa Margulies (born June 8, 1966) is an American actress.
After several small television roles, Margulies achieved success in her continuing role as Nurse
Carol Hathaway on the
NBC 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 the
animated film
Dinosaur (2000). She currently stars in the the American legal drama
The Good Wife on
CBS.
Life and career
Early life
Margulies, the youngest of three daughters, was born in
Spring Valley, New York, the daughter of Francesca, a
ballet dancer and
eurythmy teacher, and Paul Margulies, a writer who wrote the
Alka-Seltzer catch phrase "Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz, oh what a relief it is".
[Julianna Margulies Biography (1968?-)][Julianna Margulies Biography - Yahoo! Movies] Margulies attended grade school at
Green Meadow Waldorf School and high school at
High Mowing School.
[ As a child, she lived in New York, France, and England. Margulies's parents were Jewish, descended from immigrants from Austria, Hungary, and Romania.]
