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).
She was born in Spring Valley, New York on June 8, 1966, the youngest of three daughters. Her father is an advertising writer, 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 were Jewish, Margulies' mother converted to Roman Catholicism at some point in her life and raised Julianna in the Catholic faith as well.
She obtained a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College, where she appeared on campus in several plays. Her first movie role was as a prostitute looking to go straight, in the Steven Seagal film Out for Justice.
In 1994 she landed a role in the pilot episode of ER, as a character who attempted suicide, despondent over her relationship with George Clooney's character. Due to audience response, the plot was changed, and she went on to play the role of Nurse Hathaway for six years, winning an Emmy nomination every year 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 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. She will appear in next season of The Sopranos slated to debut in March 2006.
