Colin began her acting career in the soap operaThe 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 that endured nearly 30 years.
During her 2003 performance of the English play A Day in the Death of Joe Egg on Broadway, Colin smoked her way through the second half of the show and dedicated the performance to Mayor Michael Bloomberg in defiance of the state's smoking ban. After the play finished its run, she gave up smoking.[5]
In 2017, Colin appeared as a recurring character throughout the sixth season of the HBO comedy series Veep, playing fictional CBS News anchor Jane McCabe. Along with her fellow cast members, Colin won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series.[6] In 2019, she reprised her role as McCabe in the seventh season premiere of Veep and again in the series finale.
Colin performed on Broadway as Mrs. Mullin in the 2018 revival of Carousel.
Personal life
Colin met actor Justin Deas when he played her love interest, Tom Hughes, on As the World Turns. They were married in January 1988. The couple have two sons, Sam and Joe, and Colin is stepmother of her husband's daughter from his first marriage. The family moved to Upper Montclair, New Jersey in the late 1990s.[7]
She is a pro-life activist and was formerly the honorary co-chair of Feminists for Life, an organization opposed to abortion.[8] Colin is an honorary board member of the group Feminists for Nonviolent Choices.[9]
^"Margaret Colin:Biography". MSN. Archived from the original on 2009-07-10. Retrieved 2010-05-12. Born in Brooklyn to a large Irish-Catholic family and raised on Long Island, Colin began acting in elementary school.
^Klein, Alvin. "Baldwin Girl Finds Camelot (on Broadway)", The New York Times, February 22, 1998. Accessed January 26, 2008. "A year and a half ago the couple, married 10 years, and their sons, Sam, 8, and Joe, 4, moved from an apartment in Manhattan to a mansion for the money in Upper Montclair, New Jersey."
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