Fans of TV shows The Good Wife and ER know Julianna Margulies well. She’s played her fair share of strong women – Alicia Florrick, we’re talking about you. But how many of her fans know she was (and still is) horse-crazy?
Now the Emmy, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild award winner has written her memoir, Sunshine Girl: An Unexpected Life , which is being published by Penguin Random House. In an excerpt published by The Financial Times, Margulies recounts her love of horses and riding, writing, “There is a connection I feel with horses that is unlike anything I have ever experienced.”
She goes on to share how a pony named Baronet that she found wild and scruffy on an English marsh helped her cope when she was uprooted by her mother from the United States. Away from her father (her parents were divorced) she felt adrift, but as she puts it, “Baronet saved me that year.”