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Judith Light

Television Actress / Film Actress / Stage Actress | * 02/09/1949 (75) | Trenton, New Jersey (United States of America (USA))
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Judith Ellen Light (born February 9, 1949) is an American actress. She made her professional stage debut in 1970, before making her Broadway debut in the 1975 revival of A Doll's House. Her breakthrough role was in the ABC daytime soap opera One Life to Live from 1977 to 1983, where she played the role of Karen Wolek; for this role, she won two consecutive Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1980 and 1981. In 2024, Light won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for Poker Face. Light starred as Angela Bower in the long-running ABC sitcom Who's the Boss? from 1984 to 1992. Light played the recurring role of Elizabeth Donnelly in the NBC legal crime drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2002–2010) and also played Claire Meade in the ABC comedy-drama Ugly Betty (2006–2010), for which she was nominat... ()
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Judith Light (born February 9, 1949) is an American actress. Her television roles include One Life to Live, Who's the Boss?, Ugly Betty and Law & Order Special Victims Unit.

Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | TV Movies

Known for these Movies & Shows

A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises. ...

The Menu

FSK: 16+ years

2022 | 3.6/5 | 1h 46min
Comedy, Thriller, Horror
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On the cusp of his 30th birthday, Jonathon Larson, a promising young theater composer, navigates love, friendship, and the pressures of life as an artist in New York City. ...

tick, tick... BOOM!

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2021 | 3.9/5 | 1h 55min
Drama, Music
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A former professional baseball player, along with his preteen daughter, moves into New York advertising executive Angela Bower's house to be both a housekeeper and a father figure to her young son. To ...

Who's the Boss?

FSK: 12+ years

1984 | 3.8/5 | 23min per episode
Comedy, Kids & Family
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An LA family with serious boundary issues have their past and future unravel when a dramatic admission causes everyone's secrets to spill out. ...

Transparent

FSK: 16+ years

2014 | 3.2/5 | 30min per episode
Comedy, Drama
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Awards & Nominations for Judith Light

2x Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play Star On Hollywood Walk of Fame Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play
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Movies with Judith Light as Actress(36)

2024 Out of My Mind
2023 The Young Wife
as Sandy2023 Down Low
as Anne2022 The Menu
as Shirlee Salt2022 The Same Storm
as Rosa Stevens2021 tick, tick... BOOM!
as herself2020 Ben Platt: Live from Radio City Music Hall
as Shelly Pfefferman2019 Transparent: Musicale Finale
as Sherrell2019 Before You Know It
as Matron Grady2019 Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story
as Val2019 Ms. White Light
as Judith Montefiore-Salters2018 Hot Air
as Narrator2016 You'll Have the Sky: The Life and Work of Anne Morrow Lindbergh
as Grandma2015 Digging for Fire
as Veronika Goss2014 Last Weekend
as Jean2014 We'll Never Have Paris
as herself2011 Heart of Broadway: The Ensemble Behind Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
as Gayle2007 Save Me
as Arlene Black2006 Ira & Abby
as Zuleika (voice)2000 Joseph: King of Dreams
as Maj. Carmen Travis1998 Carriers
as Diana Donahue1997 Too Close To Home
1997 Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End
as Anna Lerner1996 A Step toward Tomorrow
as Lisa McKeever1996 A Husband, a Wife and a Lover
as Irene McNair1996 Murder at My Door
as Janice Mitchell1995 Lady Killer
as Barbara Noël1994 Betrayal of Trust
as Alice Needham1994 Against Their Will: Women in Prison
as Laura MacAffrey1993 Men Don't Tell
as Marie Hilley1991 Wife, Mother, Murderer: The Marie Hilley Story
as Laura Simmons1990 In Defense of a Married Man
as Jeanne White1989 The Ryan White Story
as Vickie Vine1989 My Boyfriend's Back
as Cathy Proctor1987 Stamp of a Killer
as Marsha1983 Intimate Agony

TV Shows/Series with Judith Light as Actress(31)

as Helen Villigan (voice)2024 Kite Man: Hell Yeah!
as Irene Smothers2023 Poker Face
as Joan2022 Shining Vale
as Virginia Mellon2021 American Horror Stories
as Dede Standish2019 The Politician
as Bobi Jewell2017 Manhunt
as Deirdre Quinn2017 The Good Fight
as Marilyn Miglin2016 American Crime Story
as Susan Carpenter-McMillan2016 American Crime Story
as Mrs. Wright (voice)2014 Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
as Shelly Pfefferman2014 Transparent
as Marjorie2011 The Exes
as Claire Meade2006 Ugly Betty
as Barbara Stone2004 The Stones
2004 The Tony Danza Show
as Elizabeth Donnelly1999 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Self (voice)1999 Family Guy
as Sara Campbell1998 The Simple Life
1997 Cow and Chicken
as Self - Guest1996 The Rosie O'Donnell Show
as Christine1996 Spin City
1994 Duckman
as herself1993 Intimate Portrait
as Dianne Doolan1993 Phenom
as Narrator (voice)1988 American Experience
as Angela Bower1984 Who's the Boss?
as Stacey Hughes1982 Family Ties
1982 St. Elsewhere
as Clarissa Custer1982 Remington Steele
1973 Kojak
as Karen Wolek1968 One Life to Live

Movies with Judith Light as Crew(1)

Production/Co-Executive Producer1996 A Husband, a Wife and a Lover

Additional Information

Official websites:
www.judithlight.com
Full Name: Judith Ellen Light
Born: Wednesday, 02/09 1949 (February) in Trenton, New Jersey (United States of America (USA)) (current age: 75 years + 70 days)
Zodiac sign: Aquarius (Chinese zodiac sign: Ox)
Languages: English (EN)
Educated at: Carnegie Mellon University, Doane Academy
Spouses (current/former): Robert Desiderio
Other names for Judith Light (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Judith Ellen Light"
Judith Light frequently works together with these people:
Rachael MacFarlane (63x, Actress)
Kevin Michael Richardson (55x, Actor)
John Viener (38x, Actor)
Ralph Garman (32x, Actor)
Alec Sulkin (31x, Actor)
Phil LaMarr (29x, Actor)
Steve Callaghan (29x, Actor)
Danny Smith (29x, Actor)
Alexandra Breckenridge (28x, Actress)
Mae Whitman (22x, Actress)
Gary Cole (22x, Actor)
Jonathan Larson (5x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:33231, Added: 05/13/2018, Last updated: 03/27/2024