Julianna Margulies has earned the second-most SAG awards of any woman in the Screen Actors Guild for her starring roles on ER and The Good Wife. Margulies earned a BA from Sarah Lawrence College before making her film debut in Steven Segal’s Out for Justice. She starred opposite George Clooney on the medical drama ER from 1994 to 2000, a role for which she won an Emmy Award in 1994 and nominations in every following year. She then branched out into theater and film roles, from The Vagina Monologues to the 2001 miniseries Mists of Avalon, an adaptation of Marion Zimmer Bradley’s feminist retelling of the King Arthur legend. She starred in the short-lived 2008 show Canterbury’s Law before landing the title role in The Good Wife, which ran from 2009 through 2016 and earned her many awards, including a Golden Globe and two Emmys, one in 2011 and one in 2014. In 2019, she played the lead role of Dr. Nancy Jaax in the National Geographic miniseries The Hot Zone. Since 2021, she has acted on Apple TV+’s The Morning Show. As of 2024, she has won eight SAG awards, three Emmys, and a Golden Globe. She has been nominated for 71 awards over the course of her career.