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Karen Olivo Joins the Cast of CBS’ The Good Wife

Karen Olivo
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)
Karen Olivo
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)

Tony Award winner Karen Olivo has been cast in a recurring role on CBS’ The Good Wife. Her first appearance on the show will be May 4.

Olivo will play Giada Cabrini, a law student who is interning with Will Gardner (Josh Charles), to whom she’s clearly attracted.

The actress won a Tony Award for her performance at Anita in West Side Story, in which she continues to appear. Among her other credits are the original company of In the Heights as well as Rent, Brooklyn The Musical, and The Miracle Brothers. On screen, Olivo has been seen in Adrift in Manhattan, The New Twenty and Shanghai Hotel. Among her other television credits are Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Conviction, Law & Order, and All My Children.