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Judith Light graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a BFA and has worked
in repertory theatre throughout the United States and Canada. She also performed
in Europe with the USO. She debuted on Broadway in “ A Doll’s House” with Liv
Ullman and did a season with the Eugene O’Neil Playwright’s conference. Light
received two Emmys for Best Actress for her role in the ABC daytime drama “One
Life to Live,” starred on the long-running hit primetime TV series, “Who’s the
Boss?,” and has starred in 15 movies for television.
She returned to the New York theatre to do the Pulitzer Prize-winning play
“Wit” for the MCC Theatre, and won the Helen Hayes and Eliot Norton Awards for
Best Actress on the National Tour. Light also performed in “Hedda Gabler” at the
Shakespeare Theatre in Washington DC, and later starred in Athol Fugard’s
“Sorrows and Rejoicings” at the Second Stage Theatre in New York City and at the
Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. She appeared in the Los Angeles Reprise!
Broadway’s Best production of Stephen Sondheim’s “Company” and joined the Ojai
Playwrights Conference for their 2004 season. More recently she appeared in
MCC’s production of “Colder Than Here” with Brian Murray at the Lucille Lortel
Theatre in New York for their 2005 season.
In addition to her role as Claire, the matriarch of the dysfunctional Meade
family on ABC’s “Ugly Betty,” Light recently appeared as a guest star on the NBC
hit series “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.” She also recently produced and
starred in the film “Save Me” with Chad Allen and Robert Gant. Her first feature
film was “Ira & Abby,” with Robert Klein, Fred Willard and Frances Conroy.
Light is an advocate for many organizations and charities representing
AIDS-related and Human Rights issues, including Broadway Cares Equity Fight
Aids, The Names Project, AIDS Memorial Quilt, Project Angel Food, The Point
Foundation, The Trevor Project, The Aids Memorial Grove and Hollywood Health &
Society.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
HOMETOWN Trenton, NJ
BIRTHDATE February 9
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Lakeshore Records will release the original motion
picture soundtrack for UNDER THE SAME MOON via iTunes on March 11th. The album
features original music by Carlo Siliotto (THE PUNISHER, NOMAD: THE WARRIOR).
