Judith Light

ActorProduction Feb 9 (age 77) Trenton, New Jersey, USA 1956–2025 (69 year career)

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Biography

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.

Known For

Film

The Menu

Anne

Film

tick, tick... BOOM!

Rosa Stevens

Film

Joseph: King of Dreams

Zuleika (voice)

Film

Manhunt

Bobi Jewell

Film

Who's the Boss?

Angela Bower

Film

The Politician

Dede Standish

Film

Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story

Matron Grady

Film

Ugly Betty

Claire Meade

Filmography

Acting (83)

Movies (41)

Out of My Mind

as Mrs. V.

Down Low

as Sandy

The Young Wife

as Cookie

The Menu

as Anne

The Same Storm

as Shirlee Salt

tick, tick... BOOM!

as Rosa Stevens

Ben Platt: Live from Radio City Music Hall

2020

as Self

7.7

Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story

2019

as Matron Grady

7.5

Before You Know It

2019

as Sherrell Ghearhardt

4.7

Ms. White Light

2019

as Val

6.6

Transparent: Musicale Finale

2019

as Shelly Pfefferman

6.7

Hot Air

2018

as Judith Montefiore-Salters

5.0

You'll Have the Sky: The Life and Work of Anne Morrow Lindbergh

2016

as Narrator

Digging for Fire

2015

as Grandma

5.2

We'll Never Have Paris

as Jean

Last Weekend

as Veronika Goss

Scrooge & Marley

as Narrator (voice)

Rhymes with Banana

as Judith Light

Heart of Broadway: The Ensemble Behind Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS

2011

as Herself

2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift

as (archive footage)

Save Me

as Gayle

Ira & Abby

as Arlene Black

Joseph: King of Dreams

2000

as Zuleika (voice)

6.9

Carriers

1998

as Maj. Carmen Travis

4.2

Too Close to Home

1997

as Diana Donahue

5.2

Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End

1997

1.0

A Step Toward Tomorrow

1996

as Anna Lerner

3.7

A Husband, a Wife and a Lover

as Lisa McKeever

Murder at My Door

as Irene McNair

Lady Killer

as Janice Mitchell

Against Their Will

as Alice Needham

Betrayal of Trust

as Barbara Noël

Men Don't Tell

as Laura MacAffrey

Wife, Mother, Murderer: The Marie Hilley Story

1991

as Marie Hilley

5.6

In Defense of a Married Man

as Laura Simmons

The Ryan White Story

as Jeanne White

My Boyfriend's Back

as Vickie Vine

Stamp of a Killer

as Cathy Proctor

Intimate Agony

as Marsha

Rush It

The Sham

Television (42)

All's Fair

as Sheila Baskin

Before

as Lynn

Kite Man: Hell Yeah!

as Helen Villigan (voice)

Poker Face

as Irene Smothers

Julia

as Blanche Knopf

Shining Vale

as Joan

American Horror Stories

2021

as Virginia Mellon

7.8

Stars in the House

2020

as Self - Special Guest

The Politician

as Dede Standish

The Politician

as Dede Standish

The Good Fight

as Deirdre Quinn

Manhunt

as Bobi Jewell

American Crime Story

as Marilyn Miglin

Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero

2014

as Mrs. Wright (voice)

Transparent

as Shelly Pfefferman

Transparent

as Shelly Pfefferman

Trailblazer Honors

as Self - Speaker

The Exes

as Marjorie

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

as Self - Guest

Ugly Betty

as Claire Meade

Ugly Betty

as Claire Meade

Twenty Good Years

as Gina

The Tony Danza Show

as Self - Guest

The Stones

as Barbara Stone

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

1999

as Elizabeth Donnelly

7.9

Family Guy

1999

as Judith Light (voice)

The Simple Life

as Sara Campbell

Cow and Chicken

Spin City

as Christine

The Rosie O'Donnell Show

1996

as Self - Guest

3.9

Duckman

1994

as Ursula Bacon 'Honey' Chicken (voice)

Intimate Portrait

as Self

Phenom

as Dianne Doolan

American Experience

as Narrator (voice)

Who's the Boss?

as Angela Bower

Family Ties

as Stacey Hughes

St. Elsewhere

as Barbara Lonnicker

Remington Steele

as Clarissa Custer

Kojak

as Laetitia Pomerantz

7.1

One Life to Live

1968

as Karen Wolek

7.3

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

as Self

Tony Awards

as Self - Nominee

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

A Husband, a Wife and a Lover

1996

Co-Executive Producer

2.0