Julianna Margulies began acting in the CBS courtroom drama series The Good Wife in 2009, after a brief comeback to ER. In the program, she played Alicia Florrick, an attorney who returns to the practice of law when her husband, Chris Noth, resigns as Illinois State’s Attorney amid a sex and corruption scandal.
Margulies’ performance in the series earned her two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. Margulies also served as a producer for The Good Wife beginning with the third season (in 2011). The series ended in May 2016.
In a 2021 interview with Entertainment Weekly, Margulies expressed gratitude for having played two exceptionally well-developed female characters on television, Alicia on The Good Wife and Carol on ER. She expressed pride in her performances of Carol Hathaway and Alicia Florrick in a 2019 interview for the Series Mania Festival.
Margulies has been the voice of a Chase credit card commercial since 2013. She narrated an episode titled “Women in Business” in the second season of the documentary series Makers: Women Who Make America in 2014. In 2015, TIME named Margulies one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World,” for her efforts to create Erin’s Law.
How much did Julianna Margulies earn on The Good Wife?
Margulies wants to be paid what she was supposedly paid per episode of The Good Wife, which was around $180,000.
Why was Julianna Margulies not in The Good Fight?
Margulies stated to Deadline in April 2019, “I was really excited about the idea, but CBS refused to pay my [ask].” The actor claimed she asked for the amount she was paid per episode on The Good Wife at the time, but the network refused to pay it. “I didn’t start the whole thing with The Good Wife; I’m not a guest star.