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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. Since her departure from ER in 2000, Margulies has appeared sporadically in film and television, and has also worked in theater. Her more notable roles include Morgaine in the 2001 miniseries The Mists of Avalon and the voice of the female iguanadon Neera in the animated film Dinosaur (2000).

Julianna Margulies: Life and career

Julianna Margulies - 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". 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; although her mother converted to Christianity when Julianna was five years old.

Margulies obtained a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College, where she appeared on campus in several plays.

Julianna Margulies - Career

Her first movie role was as a prostitute looking to go straight in the Steven Seagal film Out for Justice. In 1994, Margulies was cast in a role in the pilot episode of ER as a character who, despondent over her relationship with George Clooney's character, Doug Ross, attempted suicide. Her character was originally intended to die; however, the producers changed the plot and she went on to play the role of Nurse Carol Hathaway for six years. She won an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Television Drama in 1994, and was nominated for this award every year during her tenure.

Margulies, Andy Garcí­a, and Garcia's daughter Dominik Garcia-Lorido, at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival. Marguilies in September 2006

Since her departure, Margulies has worked on stage and screen. On stage she has appeared in a MCC Theater production of Kate Robin's Intrigue With Faye, a Lincoln Center production of Jon Robin Baitz's Ten Unknowns, and The Vagina Monologues. Her film work since ER includes Evelyn with Pierce Brosnan and Ghost Ship with Gabriel Byrne and Ron Eldard. She starred as the protagonist and narrator (Morgaine) in the 2001 TNT miniseries The Mists of Avalon and participated in the 2002 documentary film Searching for Debra Winger . In 2004, she guest-starred in a two-episode arc in season 4 of the hit TV show Scrubs. She starred in another miniseries on TNT, The Grid in 2004. In April 2006 she appeared in three episodes of the sixth season of The Sopranos, portraying realtor Julianna Skiff. In August 2006, she appeared in Snakes on a Plane, as flight attendant Claire Miller. In December 2006 she played Jennifer Bloom in the Sci Fi Channel miniseries The Lost Room.

In an August 2006 interview with tvguide.com, Margulies said that she was close to accepting an offer to return to ER for a four-episode arc with Noah Wyle that filmed in Hawaii during the 2005-2006 season. However, she decided against it at the last minute. The interview went on to say that she appreciates the fact that the ER producers ask her back each and every year, she "love(s) that they do". Margulies was again invited to return during ER's final season, but the actress turned down the offer, saying that she felt like she left Carol Hathaway in the perfect place and couldn't imagine bettering her departure episode. However, in 2009, Margulies returned to ER for one episode during its 15th and final season.

She had a minor role in 2007's The Darwin Awards. One of her more recent series, Canterbury's Law, premiered on Fox on March 10, 2008. She played the title character, Elizabeth Canterbury, a lawyer described as "a tough-minded defense attorney who isn't afraid to push boundaries in order to protect innocent clients." The series was impacted by the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike and was cancelled after 6 episodes. She will star in the fall of 2009 in a pilot for CBS called The Good Wife where she also plays a lawyer.

Julianna Margulies - Personal life

Margulies and Lieberthal at the Metropolitan Opera opera in 2008

Margulies and her husband Keith Lieberthal were married on November 10, 2007 in Lenox, Massachusetts. Their son Kieran Lindsay Lieberthal was born on January 17, 2008.