Born and raised in New York, Margaret Colin is a versatile actor with an impressive history of roles in television, theatre and film.

Margaret won a drama scholarship to Hofstra University, studied at the Stella Adler Conservatory, and is a member of The Actors Studio. She began her acting career in the daytime dramas The Edge of Night and As the World Turns before landing her first starring role on television in the CBS series Foley Square. She has since starred and co-starred in several television series, including Chicago Hope and Now and Again, for which she received wide critical and popular acclaim. Margaret's television career also includes the leading role in several made-for-TV movies, such as Familiar Stranger and Hit and Run.

Her Broadway debut as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in Jackie: An American Life earned her a Theatre World Award, and she continues to work both on and off Broadway in plays by John Patrick Shanley, Brian Friel, and, lately, William Shakespeare.

When the opportunity came for Margaret to combine her work with her pro-life views, she won the role of the pro-life wife of a Supreme Court Justice in Swing Vote, the critically acclaimed made-for-TV movie about abortion.

A pro-life activist since the eighth grade, Margaret credits her parents with empowering her and her siblings to take on pro-life issues. She is a member of the New Jersey Right to Life party and is an outspoken advocate for women and children, appearing on the nationally syndicated television talk shows Personally Speaking and Christopher Closeup. Margaret also supports a New Jersey-based pregnancy resource center.

In 2000, Feminists for Life named her a "Remarkable Pro-Life Woman," and in 2001, at the invitation of FFL's Honorary Chair Patricia Heaton, Margaret Colin agreed to serve as Honorary Co-Chair of Feminists for Life. Later that year Senator Sam Brownback invited Margaret to testify against the creation and destruction of human clones for stem cell research, and she appeared along with Patricia Heaton at a Senate press briefing to support a ban on human cloning. They later met privately with President George W. Bush to thank him for protecting women from abortion and for standing up for life.

In 2002, Margaret Colin appealed to Members of Congress to "Remember the Woman" by addressing the lack of practical resources and emotional support that often drives women to abortion. She received National Right to Life's "Proudly Pro-Life" award in 2003. In 2005, she spoke about these same issues at Princeton University, along with FFL President Serrin M. Foster. In January of 2009, Margaret delivered the keynote address at the Cardinal O'Connor Conference for Life at Georgetown University.

Margaret's film credits include Three Men and a Baby, Independence Day, The Butcher's Wife, The Devil's Own, Unfaithful, Blue Car and First Daughter.

Her most recent work includes a starring role in the Broadway cast of Old Acquaintance and the role of Gertrude in Shakespeare's Hamlet, which she performed for the Public Theater in New York City. Margaret also currently plays Eleanor Waldorf in the cast of Gossip Girl, the enormously popular primetime series on The CW Television Network.

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