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Judith Light is a Actor and Producer American born on 9 february 1949 at Trenton (USA)
Judith Ellen Light (born February 9, 1949) is an American actress and producer. She is a two-time Tony Award winner.
Light 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 Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She later starred as Angela Bower in the long-running ABC sitcom Who's the Boss? from 1984 to 1992, and later starred in many television films and short-lived series. She played the recurring role of Elizabeth Donnelly in the NBC legal crime drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2002–2010) and Claire Meade in the ABC comedy-drama Ugly Betty (2006–2010), for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in 2007.
She received her first nomination for a Tony Award in 2011, for her performance in the original Broadway play Lombardi. In 2012 and 2013, Light won two consecutive Tony Awards for Best Featured Actress in a Play, for her performances in Other Desert Cities and The Assembled Parties. From 2013 to 2014, Light played the role of villainous Judith Brown Ryland in the TNT drama series, Dallas. In 2014, she began starring as Shelly Pfefferman in the Amazon Studios critically acclaimed dark comedy-drama, Transparent for which she received Critics' Choice Television Award nomination.
Light is Jewish. She has been married to television actor Robert Desiderio since 1985, when they met while co-starring on One Life to Live. They have no children, and reside in California. She speaks French fluently.
Activism
Light is a gay rights activist and helped former Who's the Boss? co-star Danny Pintauro in coming out. She has done work for many LGBT charities. She sits on the board of the Matthew Shepard Foundation and spoke at the 1993 March on Washington. In 1998, she had a library named after her at the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center.
She is also a prominent AIDS activist and played Ryan White's mother in the 1989 TV movie on his life The Ryan White Story. Also, she sits on the board of Point Foundation, a LGBT organization that provides financial support, mentoring, leadership training and hope to meritorious students who are or feel marginalized due to sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.
On April 1, 2010, Judith Light joined Cyndi Lauper in the launch of her Give a Damn campaign to bring a wider awareness of discrimination of the LGBT community as part of her True Colors Fund. The campaign is to bring straight people to stand up with the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender community and stop the discrimination. Other names included in the campaign are Whoopi Goldberg, Jason Mraz, Elton John, Cynthia Nixon, Kim Kardashian, Clay Aiken, Sharon Osbourne, Kelly Osbourne and Jesse Tyler Ferguson.
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Judith Light
Light 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 Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She later starred as Angela Bower in the long-running ABC sitcom Who's the Boss? from 1984 to 1992, and later starred in many television films and short-lived series. She played the recurring role of Elizabeth Donnelly in the NBC legal crime drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2002–2010) and Claire Meade in the ABC comedy-drama Ugly Betty (2006–2010), for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in 2007.
She received her first nomination for a Tony Award in 2011, for her performance in the original Broadway play Lombardi. In 2012 and 2013, Light won two consecutive Tony Awards for Best Featured Actress in a Play, for her performances in Other Desert Cities and The Assembled Parties. From 2013 to 2014, Light played the role of villainous Judith Brown Ryland in the TNT drama series, Dallas. In 2014, she began starring as Shelly Pfefferman in the Amazon Studios critically acclaimed dark comedy-drama, Transparent for which she received Critics' Choice Television Award nomination.
Biography
FamilyLight is Jewish. She has been married to television actor Robert Desiderio since 1985, when they met while co-starring on One Life to Live. They have no children, and reside in California. She speaks French fluently.
Activism
Light is a gay rights activist and helped former Who's the Boss? co-star Danny Pintauro in coming out. She has done work for many LGBT charities. She sits on the board of the Matthew Shepard Foundation and spoke at the 1993 March on Washington. In 1998, she had a library named after her at the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center.
She is also a prominent AIDS activist and played Ryan White's mother in the 1989 TV movie on his life The Ryan White Story. Also, she sits on the board of Point Foundation, a LGBT organization that provides financial support, mentoring, leadership training and hope to meritorious students who are or feel marginalized due to sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.
On April 1, 2010, Judith Light joined Cyndi Lauper in the launch of her Give a Damn campaign to bring a wider awareness of discrimination of the LGBT community as part of her True Colors Fund. The campaign is to bring straight people to stand up with the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender community and stop the discrimination. Other names included in the campaign are Whoopi Goldberg, Jason Mraz, Elton John, Cynthia Nixon, Kim Kardashian, Clay Aiken, Sharon Osbourne, Kelly Osbourne and Jesse Tyler Ferguson.
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Digging for Fire (2015)
, 1h23Directed by Joe Swanberg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Jake Johnson, Rosemarie DeWitt, Orlando Bloom, Brie Larson, Sam Rockwell, Anna Kendrick
Roles Grandma
Rating57%
The film follows the discovery of a bone and a gun which sends a husband and wife, each full of doubts about their future and anxiety about the present, on separate adventures over the course of a weekend.
Last Weekend (2014)
, 1h34Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Patricia Clarkson, Zachary Booth, Joseph Cross, Chris Mulkey, Devon Graye, Fran Kranz
Roles Veronika Goss
Rating54%
When an affluent matriarch (Patricia Clarkson) gathers her dysfunctional family for a holiday at their Northern California lake house, her carefully constructed weekend begins to come apart at the seams, leading her to question her own role in the family.
We'll Never Have Paris (2014)
, 1h29Directed by Simon Helberg
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Melanie Lynskey, Maggie Grace, Zachary Quinto, Simon Helberg, Jason Ritter, Alfred Molina
Roles Jean
Rating46%
Quinn (Simon Helberg) and Devon (Melanie Lynskey) are a couple since highschool. Quinn works in a flower shop with Kelsey (Maggie Grace) and Devon teaches in local university. Kelsey tells Quinn she is in love with him and starts flirting with him. Quinn tells Devon he wants to take a step back in the relationship, she understands it's about Kelsey, storms out and stays at her parents. Quinn goes to Kelsey's, they kiss and she gives him a handjob which ends too soon and they go to sleep. In the morning Quinn feels guilty and decides to visit Devon at her parents and propose to her. He ends up confessing what happened with Kelsey and though it's over he still works with her. Devon gets angry, says they need time separately to figure things out and maybe he should be with other girls, so it won't plague him that he only slept with her. He finds on facebook a single schoolmate, they have a date and sleep together. He understands he wants to be with Devon and quits his job. He goes to Devon's parents just to find out she left to Paris, where they have relatives. He asks for her address to send her flowers, and shows up at her door. She tells Quinn she started dating Guillaume (Ebon Moss-Bachrach), and she doesn't want to be back with him. Quinn surprises her at her grandparents, but to his surprise Guillaume is also there. After eating, both Guillaume and Quinn play short recitals. As Quinn finishes, his left eye is very red due to a medical problem he has (Pingueculitis). Ignoring the situation he take out the ring and gets ready to propose. Devon enters the room, but surprisingly she is accompanied by Kelsey, coming to win Quinn back. Quinn accidentally steps on Guillaume's violin and crashes it, which causes a little fight. Ashamed, Quinn leaves and returns home alone. Devon surprises him at his new work and he proposes in his car. Right after she says yes he tells her about the one-night stand he had. After some tense talk Devon takes off the ring and asks Quinn to propose again.
Save Me (2009)
, 1h36Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films about religion, LGBT-related film
Actors Chad Allen, Robert Gant, Judith Light, Stephen Lang, Jeremy Glazer, Robert Baker
Roles Gayle
Rating66%
À la suite d'une overdose, Mark, homosexuel, est forcé par sa famille de suivre un programme pour lutter contre son homosexualité. Il se retrouve à « Genesis House » sous la garde de Gayle et de son mari Ted. Il fait la connaissance d'autres membres du programme, dont Scott, qui lutte contre des problèmes familiaux.
A Broken Sole (2006)
, 1h37Origin USA
Themes Films based on the September 11 attacks, Films about terrorism, Disaster films, Films about hijackings
Actors Danny Aiello, Judith Light, Laila Robins, Bob Dishy, Margaret Colin, John Shea
Roles Hilary
Rating61%
Based on three short plays by Susan Charlotte, the film follows the lives of six characters: a shoemaker and his customer, a cabbie and his passenger, and a dyslexic director and his date.
Ira & Abby (2006)
, 1h44Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Chris Messina, Jennifer Westfeldt, Fred Willard, Frances Conroy, Jason Alexander, Robert Klein
Roles Arlene Black
Rating63%
Joseph: King of Dreams (2000)
, 1h15Directed by Rob LaDuca
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Historical, Musical, Animation
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Musical films, Films based on the Bible, Films about Jews and Judaism, Films about Islam, Children's films
Actors Ben Affleck, Mark Hamill, James Eckhouse, David Campbell, Richard McGonagle, Richard Herd
Roles Zuleika (voice)
Rating65%
Joseph is the youngest of Jacob's eleven sons and a favorite of his father's; thus inciting the brothers' jealousy when Joseph grows conceited and arrogant when constantly pampered by his parents. When he receives a beautiful coat from his father, his brothers fear that he may become the clan's leader upon their father's death. One evening, Joseph dreams that the sheep his brothers are tending are attacked by wolves. Later, a wolf pack attacks the flock and Joseph is nearly killed until Jacob saves him. Jacob becomes furious that Joseph was abandoned by his brothers, and amazed that Joseph's dream came true. Judah, the eldest of the brothers and their leader, merely dismisses this. The next night, Joseph dreams that his brothers each carry sheaves of wheat that bow to Joseph's gigantic sheaf, and that he is a brilliant star surrounded by ten smaller stars and the sun and the moon; and Jacob predicts that Joseph shall supersede his brothers. The latter retreat to a cave and determine to do away with Joseph. Joseph overhears this, and the brothers tear his cloak and hurl him into a pit until nightfall. When withdrawn, Joseph is sold to desert slave traders, and thence into Egypt, while his brothers tell their father that he was killed by wolves.
Lady Killer (1995)
, 1h25Genres Thriller
Actors Judith Light, Jack Wagner, Tracey Gold, Ben Masters, Diana Leblanc
Roles Janice Mitchell
Rating54%
Janice Mitchell, Judith Light, is a married woman who has a brief affair with an attractive, younger man Dr. Guy Ellisman, Jack Wagner. When she breaks off the affair, he doesn't react well, first by stalking and raping her.
Men Don't Tell (1993)
, 1h35Directed by Harry Winer
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families, Films about domestic violence
Actors Peter Strauss, Judith Light, Noble Willingham, James Gammon, Stephen Lee, Richard Gant
Roles Laura MacAffrey
Rating64%
Ed MacAffrey, a loving husband and father, is terrorized by the violent behavior of his wife, Laura. He tolerates this not only because he loves her and is concerned over the welfare of his daughter, but also because men are traditionally regarded as weaklings if they allow themselves to be battered by their wives. After one of Laura's destructive tantrums brings the attention of the police, Ed is suspected of being the aggressor. Finally, Laura goes too far and Ed tries to defend himself - whereupon Laura crashes through the front window of her home and is rendered comatose. Ed is arrested for Domestic Violence and Attempted Murder.
, 1h36Directed by Mel Damski
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Judith Light, David Ogden Stiers, David Dukes, Whip Hubley, Dan Biggers, Nick Searcy
Roles Marie Hilley
Rating64%
The Ryan White Story (1989)
Directed by John Herzfeld
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Medical-themed films, HIV/AIDS in film
Actors Lukas Haas, Michael Bowen, Judith Light, Nikki Cox, George Dzundza, Sarah Jessica Parker
Roles Jeanne White
Rating71%
Ryan White is a teenage hemophiliac who discovers he has contracted AIDS through contaminated blood products, and is then barred from attending school by Western School Corporation in Russiaville, Indiana just outside of Kokomo. Unfairly judged and emotionally abused by the community, Ryan and his mother engage the services of a high-powered attorney to win back his basic rights to attend school.
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Save Me (2009)
, 1h36Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films about religion, LGBT-related film
Actors Chad Allen, Robert Gant, Judith Light, Stephen Lang, Jeremy Glazer, Robert Baker
Roles Producer
Rating66%
À la suite d'une overdose, Mark, homosexuel, est forcé par sa famille de suivre un programme pour lutter contre son homosexualité. Il se retrouve à « Genesis House » sous la garde de Gayle et de son mari Ted. Il fait la connaissance d'autres membres du programme, dont Scott, qui lutte contre des problèmes familiaux.