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Julianna Margulies (Actor) .. Alicia Florrick

Born: June 08, 1966 in New York

Best Known For: ER and The Good Wife.

Early-life: Julianna Luisa Margulies was born on June 8, 1966, in Spring Valley, New York. She's the youngest of three daughters. Her father works in advertising, her mother is a former ballerina. The family moved around a lot while she was growing up, and lived in France and England before settling in New Hampshire, where she attended high school. She appeared in various plays while studying at the prestigious Sarah Lawrence College, later working as a waitress to make ends meet before landing acting roles.

Career: Margulies' first movie was 1991's Out for Justice. She went on to appear in regional theatre, cropping up occasionally in such TV shows as Law & Order, and Murder, She Wrote. Her big break came in 1994 when she began playing nurse Carol Hathaway in ER. Thanks to her popularity, she was offered a $27million contract to stay with the show, but quit in 2000 to concentrate on theatre roles. Margulies then appeared in the movies Evelyn and Ghost Ship before returning to the small screen in several episodes of The Sopranos, The Lost Room and Canterbury's Law. She's currently the star of legal drama The Good Wife, for which she won a Golden Globe in 2010.

Quote: "I don't want to crash and burn before I've gotten to where I want to go. I want to enjoy the ride."

Trivia: Marguiles returned to ER for one episode during its final season.

Matt Czuchry (Actor) .. Cary Agos

Alan Cumming (Actor) .. Eli Gold

Born: January 27, 1965 in Aberfeldy, Scotland

Best Known For: X-Men 2 and numerous stage roles.

Early-life: Alan Cumming was born in Aberfeldy, Perthshire, on January 27, 1965, to Alex and Mary. His father worked as a forester on the Atholl Estate before the entire family, including Alan's elder brother Tom, moved to the east coast of Scotland in 1969. He developed his passion for drama at school and, after taking part in amateur plays, joined the Carnoustie Theatre Club and Musical Society. Between leaving school and beginning a three-year course at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, he worked at a publishers on the magazine Tops.

Career: Cumming's cabaret act, Victor and Barry, with Forbes Masson, was critically acclaimed, winning numerous awards. TV roles quickly followed, but he continued working on the stage. Stints with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre raised his profile, as did his accolades following his film debut in the drama Prague (1992). In 1994, he starred in TV sitcom The High Life, closely followed by the movies Circle of Friends (1995), GoldenEye (1995) and Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion (1997). More recently, he has worked on three Spy Kids films (2001-2003), X-Men 2 (2003), The Tempest (2010), Burlesque (2010) and TV drama The Good Wife. A firm favourite on Broadway, Cumming won a Tony Award in 1998 for playing the MC in Caberet. He returned to the role in 2014.

Quote: "Once in a while it's good to challenge yourself in a way that's really daunting."

Trivia: He became a dual-national in 2008 when he was sworn in as a citizen of the United States at a ceremony in New York.

Cush Jumbo (Actor) .. Lucca Quinn

Makenzie Vega (Actor) .. Grace Florrick

Graham Phillips (Actor) .. Zach Florrick

Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Actor) .. Jason Crouse

Born: April 22, 1966 in Seattle

Early-life: Jeffrey was born in Seattle on April 22, 1966 to Sandy and Richard. A career as a basketball player was cut short by injury. He became interested in acting after moving to Los Angeles.

Best Known For: Grey's Anatomy and Supernatural.

Career: Dean Morgan made his acting debut in the film Uncaged (1991) but he is largely associated with TV roles. His breakthrough came in 2005 when he began playing Denny Duquette in Grey's Anatomy. He has also had recurring roles in The Burning Zone, Supernatural, Weeds, Magic City and Shameless. His other film credits include Watchman (2009), The Losers (2010) and Red Dawn (2010).

Quote: "I'm just looking always for characters that change, because I want to get better, as an actor and as a person."

Trivia: He enjoys all kinds of sports.

Christine Baranski (Actor) .. Diane Lockhart

Chris Noth (Actor) .. Peter Florrick

Born: November 13, 1954 in Madison, Wisconsin

Best Known For: Sex and the City.

Early-life: Born Christopher David Noth on November 13, 1954, in Madison, Wisconsin. He has three older brothers. His mother, Jeanne Parr, was a news reporter for US TV channel CBS, so the family moved around a lot when he was young. He claims to have lived in England, Yugoslavia and Spain as a child, but never for very long. After school, he spent two years at Marlboro College in Vermont, living in a cabin in the woods he built himself.

Career: Noth studied acting with Sandford Meisner in New York and at the Yale School of Drama. He made his film debut in 1981's Waitress! and eventually caught producers' interest with a solid performance in Off Beat in 1986. Roles in I'll Take Manhattan and Baby Boom followed, and he became a household name in the US thanks to his part as Detective Mike Logan in Law and Order. He quit after five years with the show. Sex and the City introduced him to an international audience in 1998. He's also appeared on the big screen in the show's spin-off movies, as well as Cast Away, The Glass House and My One and Only. His recent work includes The Good Wife and Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

Quote: "I have enough attention already. More, I don't really need."

Trivia: He is the co-owner of The Cutting Room, a music venue in New York.

Stockard Channing (Actor) .. Veronica Loy

Born: February 13, 1944 in New York

Best Known For: Playing bad girl Rizzo in Grease.

Early-life: Susan Antonia Williams Stockard was born on February 13, 1944, to parents Lester and Mary Alice. During her early years, she travelled around Europe with her father and developed a taste for different cultures. At the age of 14, her father fell ill and his business collapsed. A year later he died. Stockard attended the all-women Radcliffe College, before moving on to study history and literature at Harvard, where she first became interested in acting alongside classmates Tommy Lee Jones and John Lithgow. She changed her name when she married her first husband Walter Channing in 1963.

Career: Channing's first stage appearance was in The Three Penny Opera. Her first big break was in the play The Two Gentlemen of Verona in the 1960s, while her TV debut came on a 1969 episode of Sesame Street. Worldwide stardom finally came with the 1978 musical Grease, in which she played a college-age bad girl, even though by then she was in her 30s. She had limited success in films throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, and eventually went back to the stage, where she garnered critical acclaim, winning a Tony award for her performance in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg. On the small screen, she had a recurring role in The West Wing, and starred in the sitcom Out of Practice.

Quote: "The need to act blew my life apart. It was like I ran off and joined the circus."

Gary Cole (Actor) .. Kurt McVeigh

Michael J Fox (Actor) .. Louis Canning

Born: June 09, 1961 in Edmonton, Canada

Best Known For: Playing Marty McFly in the Back to the Future movies.

Early-life: Born Michael Andrew Fox on June 9, 1961, to parents William and Phyllis in Edmonton, Canada. Thanks to his father's work with the military, he and his four siblings moved several times during their childhood, eventually settling in Burnaby, British Columbia. His earliest ambition was to become a professional ice hockey player, but became interested in acting during his teens.

Career: Fox debuted as a professional actor at the age of 15 in the sitcom Leo and Me. At 18, he moved to Los Angeles and took several bit parts, eventually making his mark in the sitcom Family Ties. Despite the show's heavy schedule, he found time to star in films, including the first of the Back to the Future trilogy, Teen Wolf, The Secret of My Success, and Bright Lights, Big City. In 1989, the series came to an end, giving Michael time to devote to his movie career, but he returned to TV in 1996 for Spin City and has guest starred in Scrubs. Despite ill health caused by Parkinson's disease, he has continued to work, most notably providing the voice for Stuart Little and featuring on TV in Boston Legal, Rescue Me and The Good Wife.

Quote: "Pain is temporary, film is forever."

Trivia: Fox has a theatre named after him located in his hometown of Burnaby, Brtitish Columbia, Canada.

Dallas Roberts (Actor) .. Owen Cavanaugh

Jerry Adler (Actor) .. Howard Lyman

Sarah Steele (Actor) .. Marissa Gold

Mary Beth Peil (Actor) .. Jackie Florrick

Chris Butler (Actor) .. Matan Brody

Taylor Rose (Actor) .. Hannah McCreary

Rosemary Rodriguez (Director)

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