25 Facts About Margo Martindale

Margo Martindale was born on July 18,1951 and is an American character actress who has appeared on television, film, and stage.

Margo Martindale was nominated for an Emmy Award four times for her recurring role as Claudia on The Americans, winning it in 2015 and 2016.

Margo Martindale has had numerous recurring roles in shows such as The Good Wife, Impeachment: American Crime Story, and Mrs Davis.

Margo Martindale voiced a fictionalized version of herself in the Netflix series BoJack Horseman.

Margo Martindale made her Broadway debut in the 2004 revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof for which she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play.

Margo Martindale was born in Jacksonville, Texas, the youngest of three children and only daughter of William Everett and Margaret Margo Martindale.

Margo Martindale participated in golf, cheerleading and drama at school, and was crowned Football Sweetheart and Miss Jacksonville High School 1969.

Margo Martindale starred in several off-Broadway stage productions, most notably originating the role of Truvy Jones in the first production of Steel Magnolias, and starring in its first national tour.

Margo Martindale appeared as Leonardo DiCaprio's character's doctor in Marvin's Room ; and as Hilary Swank's character's selfish mother in Million Dollar Baby.

Margo Martindale made her Broadway debut in 2004 as Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, for which she received a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play.

Margo Martindale played Mama Cox in the 2007 film Walk Hard, played Ruby in Hannah Montana: The Movie and played Miss Elizabeth Ham in the movie Secretariat.

In 2011, Margo Martindale joined the cast of Justified for the second season.

Margo Martindale played the role of Mags Bennett, matriarch of the Bennett crime family which controlled much of the drug activity in the fictional version of Harlan County, Kentucky.

Margo Martindale won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her performance.

Margo Martindale won Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series at the Critics' Choice Television Awards for her role as Mags Bennett.

In February 2012 it was announced Margo Martindale had been cast in the ABC comedy pilot Counter Culture, which was not picked up.

Margo Martindale played Mattie Fae Aiken, the sister of lead character Violet Weston.

Margo Martindale returned to television in late January 2013 in the spy drama The Americans on FX Network.

Margo Martindale played Claudia, the KGB "handler" of two Soviet spies living in 1980s Cold War America.

Margo Martindale co-starred in the sitcom The Millers on CBS.

Margo Martindale took up the role of Ruth again in 2018 in season two of The Good Fight, the sequel to The Good Wife.

Margo Martindale appears as a fictionalized version of herself on the Netflix animated comedy BoJack Horseman.

Margo Martindale played Audrey Bernhardt, matriarch of the family on the Amazon series Sneaky Pete starring Giovanni Ribisi, for the 2015 pilot, the first season which aired in January 2017, and the second and third seasons as well.

Margo Martindale portrayed Ruth Eastman in The Good Fight and Senator Elizabeth Guthrie in Your Honor.

Margo Martindale has been married to musician Bill Boals since 1986.