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Margulies won a Primetime Emmy for her breakout role as nurse Carol Hathaway on ER, then returned a decade later to lead The Good Wife as Alicia Florrick, a performance that brought her two more Emmys, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Golden Globe. Across her career she has won eight SAG Awards, second among women only to Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and she holds a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2015.