Conversations with Julianna Margulies (2014)

SAG-AFTRA Foundation Conversations

Career Conversations with Julianna Margulies. Moderated by Jenelle Riley, Variety.

As an Emmy, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award winner, Julianna Margulies has achieved success in television, theater and film. Margulies won the 2011 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series and was nominated for a 2012 Emmy Award in the same category for her work on THE GOOD WIFE. Most recently, Margulies was nominated for a 2014 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Series, Drama for her work on the show.

Margulies' television credits include "The Sopranos," "The Grid," for which she received a Golden Globe Award nomination, and the mini-series "The Mists of Avalon." She also starred as one of the original members of "ER," for which she received both an Emmy Award and SAG Award as nurse Carole Hathaway.

Margulies was most recently seen in the feature film "Stand Up Guys," with Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin. Her other film credits include "City Island," "Snakes on a Plane," "The Darwin Awards," "Slingshot," "Ghost Ship," "Evelyn," "What's Cooking," "The Newton Boys," "A Price Above Rubies," "Traveller," "Paradise Road," and "The Man From Elysian Fields."

On stage, Margulies made her Broadway debut in 2006 starring in "Festen." Margulies completed a successful run in Jon Robin Baitz's "The Ten Unknowns" at Lincoln Center opposite Donald Sutherland for which she won the Lucille Lortel Award. Other theater credits include "The Vagina Monologues" both Off-Broadway and in the Los Angeles premiere, "Fefu and Her Friends" for the Yale Repertory Theatre, "The Substance of Fire" at the Asolo Theatre, "Living Expenses, Dan Drift, and Book of Names" at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York, and "Intrigue with Faye" at the NY Stage and Film Festival. She also appeared on stage in "The Lover," "In the Boom Boom Room" and "Balm and Gilead."