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Julianna Margulies Profile |
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Birth Date: June 8, 1966
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Birth Place: Spring Valley, New York, USA
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Birth Name: Julianna Luisa Margulies
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Height: 5'6"
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Biography |
Julianna Luisa Margulies (born June 8, 1966) is an Emmy
award winning American actress best known for her role as
Nurse Carol Hathaway on the NBC medical drama ER.
Margulies was born in Spring Valley, New York, the youngest
of three daughters. She attended Green Meadow Waldorf
School. Her father is an advertising writer (whose greatest
success was the Alka-Seltzer catchphrase "Plop, plop, fizz,
fizz, oh what a relief it is"), and her mother is a former
dancer with the American Ballet Theatre. As a child, she
lived in New York, France, and England. Although her parents
are Jewish, Margulies's mother converted to Roman
Catholicism at some point in her life, and raised Julianna
in the Catholic faith as well.[1]
She obtained a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College, where she
appeared on campus in several plays. Julianna studied with
James Price at the Acting Studio in New York shortly after
college. Her first movie role was as a prostitute looking to
go straight in the Steven Seagal film Out for Justice.
Margulies announced that she and her fiancee Keith
Lieberthal are expecting their first child this winter
(2007-2008)
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, attempted suicide. Her
character was originally supposed to die due to the suicide
attempt. Due to positive audience response to her character,
however, the plot was changed, and she went on to play the
role of Nurse Carol Hathaway for six years, winning an Emmy
nomination for every year that she was on the show, and the
award itself for her first year's performance.
She turned down a $27 million offer to stay on the hit show,
which would have made her one of the best-paid actresses on
television. Since her departure, she has worked regularly 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, with whom she was romantically involved. She
starred as the protagonist and narrator (Morgaine) in the
2001 TNT miniseries The Mists of Avalon. In 2004, she
guest-starred in a 2 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
admitted that she was close to accepting an offer to return
to ER for a 4-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." |
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Other
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Majored in art history at Sarah Lawrence College; spent
junior year abroad in Florence, Italy.
Offered a role in Face/Off (1997) but turned it down.
Dated Ron Eldard. [1991-2003]
Attended grade School at Green Meadow School in Spring
Valley.
One of People Magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People." [1998]
Is left handed.
Was offered one million dollars be in Anaconda (1997).
Met her former boyfriend, Ron Eldard, in an acting class in
1991. They broke up in 2003.
Was offered $27 million to renew her contract with "ER"
(1994) but turned it down so she could move back to NYC and
work in the theater.
Julianna's sister, Alexandra Margulies, appeared as a
stewardess in her final episode of "ER" (1994).
Julianna is the only cast member of "ER" (1994) to have ever
received an Emmy award, plus she has been awarded the Screen
Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female
Actor in a Drama Series two years in a row (1998 and 1999).
Has 2 Abyssinian cats.
Wears a size 5 dress.
Measurements: 35-23-34 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
Pregnant with her first child. Father is her fiancé, Keith
Lieberthal [August 1, 2007].
Has a B.A. degree in liberal arts from Sarah Lawrence
College. |
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