Julianna Margulies (/dʒuːliˈɑːnə mɑːrɡəˈliːs/; ('Mar-ga-lease') born
June 8, 1966) is an American actress and producer. After several small
television roles, Margulies achieved wide recognition for her role
as Carol Hathawayon NBC's long-running medical drama ER,
for which she won an Emmy Award. She also voiced Neera in Dinosaur (2000)
and appeared in the miniseries The Mists of Avalon (2001). In
2009, she took on the lead role of Alicia Florrick in the American
legal drama The Good Wife on CBS. Her performance on that
show has garnered acclaim: she won the Primetime Emmy Award for
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series twice, a Golden Globe, and
a Television Critics Association Award. Margulies has won
eight Screen Actor Guild Awards, making her the most awarded woman ever
within SAG.[2][3] In 2015, TIME featured her
as one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World".[4] She
was also awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.