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Margaret Colin: World Turns
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Margaret Colin, the daughter of a NYC policeman, came to the attention of TV audiences during the early 1980s with her portrayal of crusading cop Margot Montgomery Hughes on the CBS daytime drama "As the World Turns" (1979-82). She ... appeared as a tough NYPD detective who liked to gamble on the short-lived series "The Wright Verdicts" (CBS, 1995). Truth is, she doesn't even know how to drive a car and while starring in "Leg Work," a 1987 primetime CBS series, had to be towed in a Porsche....
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Born in Brooklyn to a large Irish-Catholic family and raised on Long Island, Colin began acting in elementary school. Along with winning a drama scholarship to Hofstra University, Colin studied the craft at the Stella Adler Conservatory and Juilliard. Leaving school for a career in Manhattan, Colin soon landed on the TV daytime dramas Edge of Night and As the World Turns in the early '80s. Colin made the move to feature films playing one of teen icon Molly Ringwald's teachers in Pretty in Pink (1986) and psycho Ray Liotta's wife in Jonathan Demme's off-kilter romance Something Wild (1986). With substantial roles in the TV movies The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1987) and Warm Hearts, Cold Feet (1987), and the cop series Leg Work (1987) created as a vehicle for her, Colin was poised to become a small-screen star. Leg Work... didn't last beyond its first season.
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Born in Brooklyn to a large Irish-Catholic family and raised on Long Island, Colin began acting in elementary school. Along with winning a drama scholarship to Hofstra University, Colin studied the craft at the Stella Adler Conservatory and Juilliard. Leaving school for a career in Manhattan, Colin soon landed on the TV daytime dramas Edge of Night and As the World Turns in the early '80s. Colin made the move to feature films playing one of teen icon "Molly Ringwald"'s teachers in "Pretty in Pink" (1986) and psycho "Ray Liotta"'s wife in "Jonathan Demme"'s off-kilter romance "Something Wild" (1986). With substantial roles in the TV movies "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" (1987) and "Warm Hearts,...
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After graduating from Hofstra University, Colin began her acting career in the soap opera The Edge of Night, playing an heiress and former terrorist. In seven months on that show her character survived seven murder attempts and ended up marrying her stepbrother. She followed that role with a longer stint on As The World Turns, originating the role of Margo Montgomery, a character which is still part of that show over 20 years later.
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Colin, who got her start on the soap "As the World Turns," made her Broadway debut in "Jackie" and has appeared in "A Day in the Death of Joe Egg" and "Speaking in Tongues." Her movie roles include "First Daughter," ''Unfaithful," ''The Devil's Own" and "Independence Day."
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Such a point of view, that of the gentle reader, is the one Ms. Colin brings to the proceedings. This fine, underused New York actress, last seen here in John Patrick Shanley’s “Defiance,” plays Katherine Markham, known as Kit (the Bette Davis part), a worldly middle-aged novelist in Greenwich Village of slim but critically acclaimed output and rather more love affairs. (Katherine Anne Porter comes to mind.)
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