EXCLUSIVE: Emmy winner Julianna Marguilies (The Morning Show, The Good Wife) has joined the recurring cast of Dan Fogelman’s hit Hulu series Paradise for Season 3. Details regarding who Marguilies will play and the plot of the third season are under wraps.
Starring Sterling K. Brown, Paradise is set in a serene community inhabited by some of the world’s most prominent individuals. But this tranquility explodes when a shocking murder occurs, and a high-stakes investigation unfolds.
In Season 2, after finding out survivors — including his wife, Teri (Enuka Okuma) — remain in the outside world in the Season 1 finale, Xavier (Brown) embarks on a quest to find her, journeying out from the Paradise bunker for the first time since the planet’s destruction. While he searches for her, he encounters bands of survivors and learns how they survived the three years since catastrophe struck Earth. Back in Colorado, tensions continue rising to the surface as the community grapples with broken trust and newly unveiled secrets.
The Season 2 cast also includes Julianne Nicholson, Sarah Shahi, Nicole Brydon Bloom, Krys Marshall, Enuka Okuma, Aliyah Mastin, Percy Daggs IV, and Charlie Evans, with recurring guest stars James Marsden, Shailene Woodley, Thomas Doherty, and Jon Beavers.
As we reported earlier this month, the Season 2 finale (March 30) scored 4.3M views globally in three days across Disney+ and Hulu, the company said. That’s up 35% over the premiere to a season-best audience for the sci-fi series.
Paradise is created and executive produced by Fogelman. Jess Rosenthal, John Hoberg, Sterling K. Brown, Steve Beers, Glenn Ficarra, and John Requa also executive produce. The series is a 20th Television production.
Margulies is most notably known as an original member of the ER cast, as well as the star and producer of the hit CBS series The Good Wife. Recently, Margulies played Laura Peterson in the third season of the critically acclaimed Apple series The Morning Show. Her TV credits also include Showtime’s Billions, Nat Geo’s The Hot Zone, AMC’s Dietland, and HBO’s The Sopranos.
For the big screen, Margulies starred in Millers in Marriage, written and directed by Ed Burns. She recently wrapped production on the indie drama Penny. Margulies executive produced the Jordan Matthew Horowitz’s Oscar-qualified documentary short Jack and Sam, a tale of two Holocaust survivors miraculously reuniting after 80 years.
Margulies was recently seen on stage, starring opposite Peter Gallagher in the Broadway adaptation of Delia Ephron’s memoir Left on Tenth. She is repped by CAA and Gendler, Kelly & Cunningham.
