Julianna Margulies Joins Apple’s ‘The Morning Show’

Award-winning actress Julianna Margulies is taking a seat at Apple’s
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The Morning Show.

The Good Wife star is joining the Apple+
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original’s second season as UBA News anchor Laura Peterson.

Margulies will accompany a star-studded cast that includes Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Steve Carell, Mark Duplass and Billy Crudup. Crudup won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor for his role as slick news executive Cory Ellison.  

The Morning Show examines the power dynamics in the dog-eat-dog world of morning news. It’s told through the lens of two complex women (Aniston and Witherspoon) trying to navigate both their high-powered jobs and personal lives. 

The series is executive produced by Michael Ellenberg through Media Res (which also serves as the studio), along with Jennifer Aniston and Kristin Hahn through Echo Films and Reese Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter through Hello Sunshine. Executive Producer Mimi Leder also directs several episodes of the Kerry Ehrin-developed show, which is currently in production.

So far, The Morning Show has garnered eight Primetime Emmy Awards, along with three Golden Globe nominations. It was also nominated for Outstanding New Program by the Television Critics Association.

Margulies joins fellow series newcomers Greta Lee and Ruairi O’Connor. Hasan Minhaj has also joined season two in a guest-starring role.

Margulies, who is repped by WME, Wolf-Kasteler Public Relations and Gendler & Kelly, spent seven years as litigator Alicia Florrick on The Good Wife, a role for which she won two Primetime Emmys.  She is also best known for her role as Carol Hathaway in TV’s ER. The actress will release her first literary project Sunshine Girl in May of 2021.