The Good Wife and its spin-offs The Good Fight and Elsbeth are, respectively, American legal, political, and police procedural television series produced by CBS Studios and created by Robert and Michelle King. The Good Wife and Elsbeth were produced for the CBS broadcast network, while The Good Fight was produced for CBS' sibling streaming service Paramount+.
The Good Wife follows the political, professional, and personal life of Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies), a political "good wife" who is thrust back into the workplace after over a decade after her husband, Peter Florrick (Chris Noth), a local Chicago politician, is arrested on corruption charges following a highly publicized sex scandal. The Good Fight follows Alicia's former colleagues Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski) and Lucca Quinn (Cush Jumbo) contending with political and legal challenges in a new political environment as they continue their careers at a left-wing, African American–owned law firm, while Elsbeth follows Alicia's and Diane's former legal rival Elsbeth Tascioni (Carrie Preston) as she leaves lawyering behind to become a consultant detective, modelling herself after Columbo.
Main cast List indicators = Main cast (credited) = Recurring cast (4+) = Guest cast (1-3) Actor Character The Good Wife The Good Fight Elsbeth 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 Julianna Margulies Alicia Florrick colspan="7" colspan="9" Matt Czuchry Cary Agos colspan="7" colspan="9" Archie Panjabi Kalinda Sharma colspan="6" colspan="10" Graham Phillips Zach Florrick colspan="5" colspan="9" Makenzie Vega Grace Florrick colspan="7" colspan="9" Josh Charles Will Gardner colspan="5" colspan="2" colspan="9" Christine Baranski Diane Lockhart colspan="13" colspan="3" Alan Cumming Eli Gold colspan="6" colspan="5" colspan="1" colspan="3" Zach Grenier David Lee colspan="3" colspan="3" colspan="2" colspan="2" colspan="3" Matthew Goode Finn Polmar colspan="4" colspan="2" colspan="10" Cush Jumbo Lucca Quinn colspan="6" colspan="6" colspan="4" Jeffrey Dean Morgan Jason Crouse colspan="6" colspan="9" Rose Leslie Maia Rindell colspan="7" colspan="3" colspan="6" Erica Tazel Barbara Kolstad colspan="7" colspan="7" Delroy Lindo Adrian Boseman colspan="7" colspan="5" colspan="4" Sarah Steele Marissa Gold colspan="2" colspan="2" colspan="2" colspan="6" colspan="2" Justin Bartha Colin Morrello colspan="7" colspan="2" colspan="7" Nyambi Nyambi Jay Dipersia colspan="7" colspan="5" colspan="3" Michael Boatman Julius Cain colspan="3" colspan="2" colspan="5" colspan="3" Audra McDonald Liz Lawrence colspan="3" colspan="4" colspan="5" colspan="3" Michael Sheen Roland Blum colspan="9" colspan="6" John Larroquette Gavin Firth colspan="10" colspan="5" Charmaine Bingwa Carmen Moyo colspan="11" colspan="2" colspan="3" Mandy Patinkin Hal Wackner colspan="11" colspan="4" John Slattery Lyle Bettencourt colspan="12" colspan="3" Andre Braugher Ri'Chard Lane colspan="12" colspan="3" Carrie Preston Elsbeth Tascioni colspan="4" colspan="2" colspan="3" colspan="3" Wendell Pierce C. W. Wagner colspan="13" colspan="3" Carra Patterson Kaya Blanke colspan="13" colspan="2"
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Recurring cast