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Marg on her career path…

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MARG ON HER CAREER PATH

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[wp-svg-icons icon=”quotes-left” wrap=”span”]  “Nobody leaves my hometown. Generation upon generation stays there. You marry your high school sweetheart. The biggest step for me was just getting out.”

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[wp-svg-icons icon=”quotes-left” wrap=”span”]  “My career’s always just been putting one foot in front of the other.”

[wp-svg-icons icon=”quotes-left” wrap=”span”]  “For someone who really didn’t have much of a grand plan, it’s been a pretty good ride. I can’t complain.”

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[wp-svg-icons icon=”quotes-left” wrap=”span”]  “Yes, I’d love to do films, but I have no ambition whatsoever to be a star. In fact, I’d prefer not to!”

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[wp-svg-icons icon=”quotes-left” wrap=”span”]  “I’d like them to see some messages in what I was doing. I think you can communicate very strongly through acting. I don’t want to be just another actress doing her craft. I want to touch people.” (on acting being an experience shared between the performer and the viewer)

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[wp-svg-icons icon=”quotes-left” wrap=”span”]  “I don’t really look at myself as a star so I don’t pursue things that need to be pursued to become a star. You won’t see me in the tabloids because I’m really just this dull girl from Nebraska who followed her dream to be an actress not a star or a freak.”

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[wp-svg-icons icon=”quotes-left” wrap=”span”]  “I either play cops or criminals — I’m either on the right side of the law or the wrong side. I gravitate toward edgier material because it suits my nature. I find it fascinating to play. I’m just that kind of person.”

[wp-svg-icons icon=”quotes-left” wrap=”span”]  “I tried to pick roles that were each challenging in their own way and different than the last, and with a fair amount of bad girls, good girls…”

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[wp-svg-icons icon=”quotes-left” wrap=”span”]  “I think bad girls are always more fun to play than good girls. I think complicated people are more fun to play than someone who falls into this stereotype of the good wife or supportive girlfriend. Everybody has multiple sides to them, including a dark side. I feel an affinity for people who have been through hardships but are able to keep going.”

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[wp-svg-icons icon=”quotes-left” wrap=”span”]  “I think when you get into this business, you’re taking a risk, knowing that a job can be over at any time. ‘CSI’ is one of the few that’s had an incredibly long life. I never forget how fortunate I am. Maybe I have my own guardian angel. I’d like to think it’s my dad or my grandmother, his mother. It’s nice to know they’re watching out for me.”

[wp-svg-icons icon=”quotes-left” wrap=”span”]  “I transferred from a small state college in Nebraska to Northwestern University so I could major in speech and drama…I had tunnel vision. It’s all I wanted to do. I had no visions of grandeur of being a star or anything. I just wanted to be on stage. I wanted to travel places and see things and I figured that acting in road shows would be a good way to do that.” (Renaissance Magazine 2006)

[wp-svg-icons icon=”quotes-left” wrap=”span”]  “That’s why it never pays to sleepwalk through any role you’re doing no matter how small it might seem…Julia Roberts was THE star of that movie and I’ll guarantee you that very few people not in the business know that I was even in that movie. But, people in the business took note and here I am!” (Marg on how her role in Erin Brockovich helped her land the part of Catherine Willows on ‘CSI’ – Renaissance Magazine 2006)

[wp-svg-icons icon=”quotes-left” wrap=”span”]  “Television’s been very, very good to me, and I’ve had enormous fun on it. I’m playing a lot of different parts, and I hope it continues. I’d like to do a comedy. That would be, ideally, the next thing I’d like to do.” (Moviefone.com, July 2015)

[wp-svg-icons icon=”quotes-left” wrap=”span”]  “I want to go out like Betty White,  honestly! Betty White is sort of one of my heroes. I think she’s most actresses’ heroes because look at her: she’s in her nineties and she still has the energy of a young woman and the comic timing of a young person. It does keep you sharp — it’s a fun job. I can’t complain. I just feel like really lucky and blessed to have the career that I have.” (Moviefone.com, July 2015)

[wp-svg-icons icon=”quotes-left” wrap=”span”]  Marg discussing her background in theater:  “I went to Northwestern and I got to play some of the great parts, including Blanche DuBois, Kate from Taming of the Shrew, and Low-Dive Jenny from Threepenny Opera. Then years go by, because life happens. But now my son’s grown, I’m not currently on a television show, so it gives me a bit of freedom to do these things, for which I feel really blessed.” (AmericanTheatre.org, October 2016)

 

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CURRENT ROLE


ALL RISE

TV SERIES

ROLE: Judge Lisa Benner
STATUS: Renewed for Season 2 
NETWORK: CBS

A look at the personal and professional lives of the judges, lawyers, clerks, bailiffs and cops who work at an L.A. County courthouse.

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RECENT ROLE


A DOG’S JOURNEY

FILM

ROLE: Hannah
RELEASED:  2019

A dog finds the meaning of his own existence through the lives of the humans he meets.

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BEST KNOWN ROLES


CSI

TV SERIES

ROLE: Catherine Willows STATUS: Ended (2000 - 2015 ) NETWORK: CBS

An elite team of police forensic evidence investigation experts work their cases in Las Vegas.

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CHINA BEACH

TV SERIES

ROLE: Karen Charlene Kolowski STATUS: Ended (1988 - 1991) NETWORK: ABC

The trials of a weary nurse, her friends and colleagues in a Vietnam War field hospital.

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CAUSES MARG SUPPORTS


SU2C

ROLE: SU2C Ambassador

Because her mom is a breast cancer survivor, Marg has been an active supporter of cancer awareness groups for over three decades. STAND UP TO CANCER is a groundbreaking initiative created to accelerate innovative cancer research that will get new therapies to patients quickly and save lives now.

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RACE TO ERASE MS

ROLE: Supporter

Because her father died due to complications from Multiple Sclerosis, fighting this disease has been an important cause to Marg for much of her adult life. Race to Erase MS is dedicated to the treatment and ultimate cure of Multiple Sclerosis. Funding research is the core focus of the Foundation and all funds raised support their Center Without Walls program, a selected network of the nation’s top MS research centers.

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