Julianna Margulies, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning star of ER and The Good Wife—two of the most iconic television series in the past four decades—sits down down with longtime friend John Benjamin Hickey to discuss her newly released memoir, Sunshine Girl, and her life as an actress, mother, and philanthropist in New York City.
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John Benjamin Hickey won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in The Normal Heart. He has also appeared on Broadway in Cabaret, The Crucible, Mary Stuart, and Six Degrees of Separation. Most recently, Hickey starred alongside Vanessa Redgrave on the West End in London in The Inheritance, which won the Olivier Award for Best Play and premiered on Broadway in 2019. His screen credits include The Big C, Manhattan, Difficult People, Pitch Perfect, Get On Up, Truth, Barry, Mom, Hostiles, Forever My Girl, Mapplethorpe, Jessica Jones, The Good Wife and its spinoff series The Good Fight, and most recently, Sublet. Hickey is appearing this spring in the HBO limited series In Treatment.
As an Emmy, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild award winner, Julianna Margulies has achieved success in television, theater, and film. Margulies starred as Alicia Florrick on the long-running hit CBS show The Good Wife, which she also produced, and is also well known for her role as one of the original cast members of ER. More recently, Margulies has starred on critically acclaimed series including The Morning Show, Billions, and The Hot Zone. She has been involved with Project ALS and Erin’s Law and is also a board member of the New York City–based MCC Theater company. Her memoir, Sunshine Girl, was published on May 4th. She resides in New York City with her husband and son.
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