ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY's Peter Gallagher to Practice Law in THE GOOD WIFE

ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY star Peter Gallagher is going into law.

Deadline reports that the actor will recur as 'Irving Carver', a new lawyer on CBS's THE GOOD WIFE.

His character is described as "the witty, sophisticated attorney of conservative billionaire Reese Dipple (Oliver Platt), who's been dispatched to Lockhart/Agos/Lee. He prefers civilized, intelligent debate over mindless bullying, but will use whatever it takes to assure that the firm is working to further his client's agenda."

Gallagher has previously appeared on TV in HBO's TOGETHERNESS, COVERT AFFAIRS and THE O.C., as well as LAW & ORDER: SVU, RESCUE ME, CALIFORNICATION and more.

The actor just wrapped a run in ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY on Broadway, opposite Kristin Chenoweth. Among his other Broadway credits are THE COUNTRY GILR, NOISES OFF, GUYS AND DOLLS, LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, THE REAL THING, THE CORN IS GREEN, A DOLL'S LIFE, HAIR and GREASE.

THE GOOD WIFE has been named one of AFI's Top Television Shows, won the Television Critics Award for Outstanding Achievement in Drama and garnered five Emmy nominations and three Golden Globe nominations. The drama stars Julianna Margulies as Alicia Florrick, a disgraced wife who returns to work as a lawyer after her husband, Peter Florrick, is imprisoned following a scandal. After starting her own firm and finding success as a litigator alongside her colleagues Diane Lockhart and Cary Agos, Peter's trusted advisor, Eli Gold, convinces Alicia to run for State's Attorney, the position once infamously held by her husband. Following a win at the polls after a hard-fought campaign, Alicia is forced to step down from office when voter fraud threatens the Democratic Party in the state of Illinois. Now, with her political career over before it began and without a law firm to call her own, she cautiously begins to practice law, with only the assistance of Jason Crouse, a calm, experienced hourly investigator whom she hires. Alicia must find a way to reinvent herself, all while Peter, now Governor of Illinois, contemplates a bid for the Presidency that may thrust her into the spotlight once again.

Photo Credit: Walter McBride

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