Margaret Judson Biography

Fast Facts

• Graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a degree in Broadcast Journalism in 2008
• Was working at MSNBC when Aaron Sorkin came in to shadow her team as research for "The Newsroom," first being hired as his consultant and then asking for an audition after she read the first draft of the pilot
• Started out in the NBC Page Program before joining "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" as a research assistant
• Quote: "(On switching to acting): "I feel like there's a lot of overlap with journalism and a lot of things that made me interested me in journalism I find in acting and writing․ So it's nice to․․․be a part of the storytelling but now in a different way․""
• Best known for her role as Tess Westin in "The Newsroom․"
• During an internship with NBC News while in college, she took part in a presidential debate in Chicago featuring all of the Democratic candidates from 2008
• The character Margaret Jordan in "The Newsroom" is based on her, but she never auditioned for the role