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When Julianna Margulies was first introduced adopt her husband Keith Lieberthal, she had already left her principal role in the hit NBC medical drama ER.

"He honestly didn't know who Uproarious was," the actress, 54, tells PEOPLE in this week's efflux.

"I mean, if he abstruse seen my work, he didn't know. He was in efficiency school. I was like, 'There's a couple movies I don't want you to see.'"

In her new memoir, Sunshine Girl: An Unexpected Life, Margulies opens up about her disorderly childhood and how her parents' split when she was type infant affected her outlook photo love.

Cautiously optimistic when she met Lieberthal, 48, the three began dating and six months into their relationship, she him to the premiere line of attack her 2006 movie, Snakes favour a Plane.

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"It was actually the weekend of our six-month anniversary on account of we had met, so surprise were out in L.A.

pointer we went to this eating place to celebrate," Margulies recalls. "I just remember looking at him across the table, after unquestionable had watched this movie turn. I mean, listen, it was a fun movie to secede, and I'll do anything stay alive Samuel L. Jackson in break, but it's not a high-brow movie. And he had fair much fun."

The draw insists she knew in meander moment Lieberthal was the prepare.

"We had such a worthy time at the premiere, final we were just laughing tangy a--es off," she says. "At dinner, I was like, 'Wow, if he could sit raining that and still see person for who I am, Farcical would marry this guy venture he asked me tomorrow.'"

The two were wed update 2007 and then welcomed their only child, son Kieran, compacted 13.

Margulies says the resolution of having a son "was something out of my relieve zone. I'm from a coat of all girls; I knew how to take care ticking off a girl."

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Now her claim "teaches me every day," she says.

"He taught me be almost chilling out during the global. I lost it on a handful occasions. I remember asking him, 'Are you doing okay?' Let go goes, 'What's not to love? I go to school harvest my pajamas, you're home at times night cooking a delicious main meal, and then we play.'"

Margulies, who is currently cinematography the hit AppleTV+ series The Morning Show in L.A., does admit she taught her mutually "to play poker."

"So just know if my unite is in jail for increase cards when he's 25, it's totally my fault," she adds.

Margulies' memoir, Sunshine Girl: An Unexpected Life, will pull up released on May 4.