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Julianna Margulies
Memoir & Personal Growth
Julianna Margulies is an American actress and memoirist, known for starring roles on ER and The Good Wife and multiple major television awards.
Biography
Julianna Margulies (born June 8, 1966) is an American actress who gained wide recognition for portraying Carol Hathaway on the NBC medical drama ER (1994–2000; 2009). For that role she received a Primetime Emmy Award, six Screen Actors Guild Awards and four Golden Globe nominations. In 2009 she took the lead as Alicia Florrick on the CBS legal drama The Good Wife (2009–2016), earning two additional Primetime Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a Television Critics Association Award.
Margulies has appeared in a range of television projects including the TNT miniseries The Mists of Avalon, HBO’s The Sopranos, National Geographic’s The Hot Zone, and as Laura Peterson in Apple TV+’s The Morning Show (2021–2023). Her film credits include Dinosaur (2000), Evelyn (2002), Ghost Ship (2002), Snakes on a Plane (2006), City Island (2009), Stand Up Guys (2012), and The Upside (2017). She has received one Golden Globe, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and eight Screen Actors Guild Awards, is the second most awarded woman in SAG after Julia Louis-Dreyfus, has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and was named one of Time’s 100 most influential people in 2015.
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Books by Julianna Margulies
Sunshine Girl
Sunshine Girl is Margulies’s debut memoir chronicling her life and work and examining her journey “from chaos to calm.” It recounts her upbringing—nicknamed “Sunshine Girl” by her mother, raised between divorced parents across Paris, England, New York, and New Hampshire—and how acting and personal history shaped her self-discovery.