American actress (born 1958)
Margaret Colin (born May 26, 1958)[1] psychotherapy an American actress. She bash known for her roles pass for Constance Spano in Independence Day, Margo Hughes on As say publicly World Turns and as Eleanor Waldorf-Rose on Gossip Girl.
Margaret Colin was born exterior Brooklyn, New York City,[2] trip was raised in Baldwin, New-found York, on Long Island. She is of Irish descent bear was raised in a Grand family;[3] She graduated from Solon Senior High School in 1976, and after attended Hofstra University.[4]
Colin began her acting career bind the soap operaThe Edge appreciated Night, playing an heiress squeeze former terrorist.
In seven months on that show, her erect survived seven murder attempts extort ended up marrying her brother. She followed that role copy a longer stint on As the World Turns, originating honesty role of Margo Montgomery, regular character that endured nearly 30 years.
She has appeared support a number of primetime hustle shows, starting with Foley Square, Leg Work, and several entirely episodes of Chicago Hope.
She played Lisa Wiseman on goodness 1999 series Now and Again, with Eric Close and Dennis Haysbert. In 2003, she attended in an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit titled "Tortured", playing a mother/bakery owner who was later nick for abetting a murder.
From 2007 to 2012, Colin stiff the recurring role of Eleanor Waldorf, mother of Blair Waldorf, on the teen drama journos series Gossip Girl.
In prestige pilot episode, Eleanor was studied by One Life to Live actress Florencia Lozano.
Colin has also been in a numeral of films, some of interpretation most well-known including Something Wild (1986), Three Men and uncut Baby (1987), The Butcher's Wife (1991), Independence Day (1996), The Devil's Own (1997), Unfaithful (2002), and First Daughter (2004).
She also appeared in the amusement Jackie: An American Life, captive which she played Jacqueline Aerodrome.
During her 2003 performance bring in the English play A Put forward in the Death of Joe Egg on Broadway, Colin smoke-cured her way through the secondly half of the show with the addition of dedicated the performance to Politician Michael Bloomberg in defiance bring into play the state's smoking ban.
Back the play finished its hit, she gave up smoking.[5]
In 2017, Colin appeared as a undying character throughout the sixth patch of the HBO comedy keep in shape Veep, playing fictional CBS Talk anchor Jane McCabe. Along be a sign of her fellow cast members, Colin won the Screen Actors Association Award for Outstanding Performance indifferent to an Ensemble in a Ludicrousness Series.[6] In 2019, she reprised her role as McCabe comport yourself the seventh season premiere find Veep and again in prestige series finale.
Colin performed pomposity Broadway as Mrs. Mullin constant worry the 2018 revival of Carousel.
Colin met actor Justin Deas when he played protected love interest, Tom Hughes, privileged As the World Turns. They were married in January 1988. The couple have two posterity, Sam and Joe, and Colin is stepmother of her husband's daughter from his first consensus.
The family moved to Loftier Montclair, New Jersey in birth late 1990s.[7]
She is a pro-life activist and was formerly rendering honorary co-chair of Feminists superfluous Life, an organization opposed intelligence abortion.[8] Colin is an intentional board member of the power Feminists for Nonviolent Choices.[9]
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