1. Alicia Florrick is the lead character of CBS television series The Good Wife and is portrayed by Julianna Margulies, who has received widespread acclaim for her performance, winning two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.
Alicia Florrick Cavanaugh was born in 1967 to Veronica Cavanaugh and an unknown father, from whom Veronica separated prior to her first appearance in the series in Season 4.
Alicia Florrick is the older sister of Owen Cavanaugh, whom she loves very much, having grown close during their parents' separation, despite his tendency to meddle in her personal life.
Ironically, Alicia Florrick has engaged in several of the same practices as her mother that she disapproves of, including infidelity, various relationships, and estrangement from her children.
Alicia Florrick attended Georgetown University Law Center, where she graduated at the top of her class in 1992, despite her tendency to sleep during lectures she didn't find interesting.
Peter resigns in order to avoid impeachment, but is ultimately convicted of charges of corruption, leading Alicia Florrick to believe that she, as well as her children, had become collateral damage in a political feud between Peter and Childs.
Alicia Florrick offers her a job at his firm, which she accepts, but soon comes to learn that the position offered to her was already filled by a younger, Harvard-educated lawyer, Cary Agos.
Alicia Florrick is designated the role by Diane of being "the branch between the legal and political", using her husband, who then resides in a county prison, to solicit information on cases she is working, much to the displeasure of judges, who view this practice as unethical.
Cary proposed that he and Alicia Florrick begin their own firm, and take the other fourth year associates, as well as one of the in-house investigators, with them.
However, Alicia Florrick utilizes Peter, who had been released from prison and subsequently elected governor of Illinois, to continue poaching clients.
Diane and Alicia Florrick eventually remove David Lee as a name partner, and the two become the name partners of a female-led law firm.
Alicia Florrick's role is solely to bolster Peter's political career, a job she continues to do following Peter's release from prison.
However, things get complicated when both of their campaigns release disparaging ads against their wishes: Alicia Florrick is accused of being unethical and open to political favors for her past clients and Prady is accused of being a gay closeted-Republican.
Alicia Florrick is seen lying to influential Cook County figures in order to secure their endorsements.
Alicia Florrick continues to support him Peter comes in fourth in the Iowa caucuses, so any hope of him being tapped for the nomination is destroyed.
Alicia Florrick testifies to this and Lucca, in an effort to discredit him, accuses him of changing his testimony to protect Holly because they had an affair.
Alicia Florrick attends Peter's resignation and approaches Alicia afterward, slaps her hard across the face, and walks away without a word.
But, according to the writers Alicia Florrick had, in effect, become Peter.
Alicia Florrick morphed from a purist, at home and in the law, into someone who cheated on her spouse, blurred ethical lines, and became quite hardened.