Julianna Luisa Margulies (/ˈmɑːrɡjʊliːs/; born June 8, 1966) is an American actress and producer. After several small television roles, Margulies achieved wide recognition for her role as Carol Hathaway on 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. In 2018, Margulies had a co-starring role as Kitty Montgomery in the AMC dark comedy series Dietland.\n', '

Margulies has won eight Screen Actor Guild Awards, making her the second most awarded woman ever within SAG after Julia Louis-Dreyfus. In 2015, TIME featured her as one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World". She was also awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.\n', '

Margulies is the youngest of three daughters, born in Spring Valley, New York. Her mother Francesca (née Goldberg, later Gardner) was a ballet dancer and eurythmy teacher; her father Paul Margulies was a writer, philosopher, and Madison Avenue advertising executive. Her parents were both Jewish, descended from Jewish immigrants from Romania, Austria, Hungary, and Russia. Her mother converted to Christianity when the children were young, though Margulies still identifies herself as Jewish. The Margulies family lived in Israel for a period of time before Julianna\'s birth, then moved back to the Upper West Side of New York City.\n', '

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