Margaret Colin Biography (2)

Margaret Colin is well known for her co-starring roles in the films Independence Day and The Devil's Own. She also was a regular on the TV series Now and Again, in which she played the wife of Eric Close.

Born and raised in New York City, Colin attended the Baldwin School. She began her acting career in the soap opera The Edge of Night. Recurring roles on several series followed, including The Wright Verdicts, Legwork, and Chicago Hope. She also appeared in many TV movies, including Swing Vote, Traveling Mad, A Time to Say Goodye, Hit and Run, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Warm Hearts and Cold Feet, and Goodnight Sweet Wife.

New York theatergoers have enjoyed her on Broadway in Jackie, in which she starred as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and received the Theater World Award, and offBroadway in Manhattan Theater Club's productions of Psychopathic Sexualis, Sight Unseen, and Aristocrats. For the latter, she received a Drama Desk nomination.

Colin's other motion pictures include The Adventures of Sebastian Cole, Terminal Velocity, The Butcher's Wife, Something Wild, Like Father, Like Son, Three Men and a Baby, True Believer and Amos and Andrew.

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