Anna Daniels
As much as we’d like to think you’ve all been following Renée Elise Goldsberry’s career from day one — and thus seen her stellar work on shows like White Collar, The Following, Masters of Sex, or the magnificent, Oprah Winfrey-produced HBO drama The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – we’re pretty sure that’s not the case for most viewers. It’s entirely likely, however, that lots of TV fans remember Goldsberry from her recurring role on The Good Wife.
The award-winning legal drama ran for a full seven seasons on CBS, and saw an impressive cast of recurring characters come and go over throughout its run — Matthew Goode, Michael J. Fox, Mike Coulter, Nathan Lane, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan being among them. Julianna Marguiles led the series as Alicia Florrick, the wife of a disgraced State’s Attorney forced to return to her own legal practice to provide for her family. She shared the screen with a revolving door of high-powered lawyers often on the opposite side of litigation.
Goldsberry made her first appearance as Assistant State’s Attorney Geneva Pine on the series’ second season, and the character quickly became a bit of a fan favorite. In fact, Geneva Pine appeared on 23 episodes of The Good Wife, and wound up playing a major role in the narrative acrobatics of the show’s divisive final season. Less divisive was the general opinion that Goldsberry was great on The Good Wife, and that the series probably could’ve done better by both the character and the actress who played her.
Written by: Looper
