At the audition she realized that "the format reaches a lot of people". Not wanting to be attached to a soap opera or a sitcom she initially rejected the idea, until she was told her daily salary would be $350. In 1977, her agent phoned Light to have her audition for an understudy role in the ABC soap opera One Life to Live. Light at the Governor's Ball following the 1989 Annual Emmy Awards Broke, she almost quit acting, because she felt that she was not contributing to the theater. In the late 1970s, Light went through a real crisis after a period of not landing any parts. Light also acted for such theatre companies as the Milwaukee Repertory Theater and the Seattle Repertory Theatre. She also starred in the 1976 Broadway play Herzl. Light made her Broadway debut in A Doll's House in 1975.
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She said "it was a really rigorous program and I thank God for it because it was an amazing training program." She made her professional debut on stage in Richard III at the California Shakespeare Festival in 1970.Ĭareer Early work and breakthrough She recalled graduating with a class of 15 actors who were there all four years. She graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a degree in drama. Mary's Hall– Doane Academy in Burlington, New Jersey.
Light graduated from high school in 1966 at St. She is the daughter of Pearl Sue (née Hollander), a model, and Sidney Light, an accountant. Light was born to a Jewish family in Trenton, New Jersey.
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In 2014, she began starring as Shelly Pfefferman in the critically acclaimed Amazon Studios dark comedy-drama series Transparent, for which she received nominations for several Golden Globe, Primetime Emmy, and Critics' Choice Award nominations. From 2013 to 2014, she played the role of villainous Judith Brown Ryland in the TNT drama series, Dallas. 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 nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in 2007. Light starred as Angela Bower in the long-running ABC sitcom Who's the Boss? from 1984 to 1992, and was featured in many other television sitcoms, dramas, and films.
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. She made her professional stage debut in 1970, before making her Broadway debut in the 1975 revival of A Doll's House. Judith Ellen Light (born February 9, 1949) is an American actress.
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