Julianne Nicholson

Julianne Nicholson (born July 1, 1971) is an American actress. She is currently playing Det. Megan Wheeler on Law and Order: Criminal Intent.

Personal life

Nicholson was born and raised in Medford, Massachusetts (outside Boston), and is the eldest of four siblings. After graduating from Arlington Catholic High School, she modeled in New York for six months, quit for a year, then resumed her modeling career in Paris for another six months. After returning to New York, she attended Hunter College as a general studies major for two years. While in New York, Nicholson supported herself by waitressing and eventually left school to study acting and begin her professional career.

In 2004, she married British actor Jonathan Cake in Italy; they met playing a couple on an unaired HBO pilot called Marriage. They have two children. Their son Ignatius was born in September 2007^[1] and she gave birth to daughter Phoebe Margaret on April 30, 2009.^[2]

One of Nicholson's favorite movies is Living in Oblivion, by director Tom DiCillo.^[3]

Career

In her first feature film role she starred opposite Michael Caine and James Spader in Curtain Call. Later she won what proved to be both her breakthrough and favorite role as a headstrong young feminist in The Love Letter with Tom Selleck and Kate Capshaw. Her other feature film credits include the independent films Flannel Pajamas, Tully and Passion of Mind, as well as One True Thing, Harvest and Long Time Since.

Among Nicholson's television credits are a starring role in the television miniseries Storm of the Century and guest-starring roles in ER and Law & Order. She was also one of the main cast members of hit show Ally McBeal for half a season. Nicholson played Christina Finn on the short-lived NBC television drama, Conviction.

She replaced Annabella Sciorra as a detective, Megan Wheeler, in the sixth season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent.^[4] Nicholson said her favorite Criminal Intent episode was "Weeping Willow", which she described as "really different from a lot of the ones we've done before and very exciting and current."^[3] As of the Criminal Intent episode "Major Case", Nicholson departed the series and was replaced by actress Saffron Burrows.

Nicholson played the lead role of Sara Quinn in John Krasinski's 2009 adaptation of David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.

In September 2009, Nicholson was cast in the role of "Jane" in the off-Broadway play This by Melissa James Gibson, running November 6-December 13, 2009 at Playwrights Horizons.

Filmography

Movie/mini-series

• Long Time Since - Vivian James / Phoebe James (1997)
• One True Thing - College Student (1998)
• Harvest - Lou Yates (1998)
• Curtain Call - Sandra Hewson (1999)
• The Love Letter - Jennifer McNeely (1999)
• Storm of the Century TV miniseries - Cat Withers (1999)
• Tully - Ella Smalley (2000)
• Godass - Nancy (2000)
• The Others TV series - Marian Kitt (2000)
• Passion of Mind - Kim (2000)
• Dead Dog - Charity (2000)
• Hero - Young German Woman (2000)
• Strike a Light - herself (2001)
• Ally McBeal (1997) - Jenny Shaw (episodes 91-103) (2001-2002)
• Speakeasy - Rebecca (2002)
• I'm with Lucy - Jo (2002)
• Presidio Med TV series - Dr. Jules Keating (2002)
• Kinsey - Alice Martin (2004)
• Seeing Other People - Alice (2004)
• Little Black Book - Joyce (2004)
• Her Name is Carla - Carla (2005)
• Flannel Pajamas - Nicole (2005)
• Two Weeks - Emily Bergman (2006)
• Conviction - Christina Finn (2006)
• Puccini for Beginners - Samantha (2006)
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent - Det. Megan Wheeler (2006-2009)
• Brief Interviews with Hideous Men - Sara Quinn (2009)^[5]
• Staten Island - Maria (2009)
• In Praise of Shadows - Ann (2010)

Guest appearances

• Law & Order - Jessie Lucas (episode 11.20 "All My Children") (2001)
• ER - Jordan Dunn (episodes 10.19 "Just a Touch" and 10.20 "Abby Normal") (2004)

References

External links

• Julianne Nicholson at the Internet Movie Database
• Julianne Nicholson at Yahoo! Movies
• Julianne Nicholson at Allmovie
• Julianne Nicholson at TV.com