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Judith Light: Biography

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Birth Name: Judith Ellen Licht
Birth Place: Trenton, NJ
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 02/09/1949, Aquarius
Profession: Actor; producer

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Judith Light Fast Facts:

Toured with the USO in a production of Guys and Dolls while still in college.
In the early '70s, she performed with the Milwaukee Repertory and the Seattle Repertory Theatres.
Made her Broadway in a 1975 production of A Doll's House.
Garnered critical acclaim as housewife-turned-prostitute Karen Wolek on the daytime sudser One Life to Live, earning two consecutive Daytime Emmy Awards in 1980 and 1981.
Performed all of her own numbers in the 1989 TV-movie musical My Boyfriend's Back.
That same year, she played the mother of a boy stricken with AIDS in the TV-biopic The Ryan White Story, which prompted her to become involved with several AIDS charities including Project Angel Food, Heart Strings and The Names Project.
Took voice lessons and shaved off her blonde tresses to play a cancer-stricken English professor in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit.
Along with her husband Robert Desiderio, she was presented with the Making a Difference Award on behalf of The Matthew Shepard Foundation in 2006.

Judith Light Relationships:
Pearl Sue Licht - Mother
Robert Desiderio - Husband
Sidney Licht - Father
Judith Light Awards:
2007 Emmy: Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series - Nominee
College:
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (BFA in Drama, 1971)

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