Biography
Judith Light is an Actress from the United States whose breakout performance was in the ABC daytime soap opera One Life to Live, which ran from 1977 to 1983. She was nominated twice in a row for Daytime Emmy Awards in 1980 and 1981 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for this role. For her role in Poker Face, Light was awarded the 2024 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series.
Age
She is 75 years old as of 9 February 1949 in Trenton, New Jersey, United States. Her real name is Judith Ellen Light.
Family – Education
In Trenton, New Jersey, Light was born into a Jewish family. She is the daughter of accountant Sidney Licht and model Pearl Sue (née Hollander). At Burlington, New Jersey’s St. Mary’s Hall–Doane Academy, Light earned his high school diploma in 1966. She received a drama degree from Carnegie Mellon University.
Husband – Children
Since 1985, Light has been wed to television actor Robert Desiderio. The couple moved to both coasts in 2010; she now dwells mostly in New York City and he in Southern California. She owns properties in Aspen, Colorado, and Beverly Hills, California. Despite not being affiliated with any official religion, she is Jewish and regards herself as religious. She has spent twenty years doing Kundalini yoga.
Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $16 million.
Shining Vale
She has a recurring role of Joan in the American satirical comedy horror television series Shining Vale.After being discovered cheating on her husband, Patricia “Pat” Phelps, a former “wild child” who rose to fame for her raucous female empowerment novels, transfers her troubled family from the city to a small hamlet. The family moves into a house that has seen horrific horrors committed there in the past. Pat is the only one who appears to be suspicious of anything strange; she believes she is either possessed or depressed.
After 16 years of sobriety, Pat starts to feel quite empty inside. She still hasn’t finished her second novel, can’t recall the last time she had sex with her husband, and her adolescent children are now old enough to not want their mother in their lives. The monsters haunting the family’s new house soon start to seem a lot more genuine.
Law & Order
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit cast Light, an Emmy Award-winning actress, as Bureau Chief and then Judge Elizabeth Donnelly. Former Bureau Chief ADA Elizabeth Cara Donnelly is a judge on Manhattan’s Superior Court in New York City. Donnelly has been practicing law for at least thirty years. She won most of her cases as an assistant district attorney, earning her a reputation for being stern. She did, however, suffer a significant setback in the prosecution of Caroline Cresswell, the wife of an abusive husband. Since it was thought that a female prosecutor would make Caroline less receptive to the jury, Donnelly had been given the case. But Cresswell ran away during a meeting to talk about a plea deal, which damaged Donnelly’s standing.
Donnelly was never permitted to return to work for the Homicide Bureau as a result of the failure, and inexperienced ADAs who committed awkward errors would come to be known as “doing a Donnelly.” Following a few years as the Bureau Chief ADA, Donnelly was promoted to the position of judge. However, throughout her tenure in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, she oversaw both Alexandra Cabot and Casey Novak, Cabot’s successor. Donnelly has overseen several of the cases that Novak has brought to trial.
Senior management in a district attorney’s office is referred to as a Bureau Chief (sometimes called a Unit Chief). They oversee specialized divisions and agencies that look into and prosecute particular offenses. Typically, the executive assistant district attorney who oversees the division to which these individuals report reports directly to them.
Dallas
In the American prime-time television serial opera Dallas, the actress played Harris Ryland’s mother, Judith Brown-Ryland, who is described as “an authoritative and controlling battleaxe who will fight to the death to protect the people she loves”. She owns the majority of Ryland Transportation’s equity.
The show centers on the Ewings, a prosperous Dallas family with interests in cattle ranching and oil. Born during the first series, the characters are Christopher Ewing and John Ross Ewing III. Christopher is more interested in Southfork Ranch and renewable energy, whereas John Ross is fixated on power, money, and oil. John Ross wants to bring back the oil business for the Ewings.
Judith’s Movies
♦ 2024 – Out of My Mind
♦ 2023 – Down Low
♦ 2023 – The Young Wife
♦ 2022 – The Menu
♦ 2021 – The Same Storm
♦ 2021 – Tick, Tick… Boom!
♦ 2019 – Before You Know It
♦ 2018 – Ms. White Light
♦ 2018 – Hot Air
♦ 2015 – We’ll Never Have Paris
♦ 2015 – Digging for Fire
♦ 2014 – Last Weekend
♦ 2012 – Rhymes with Banana
♦ 2012 – Scrooge & Marley
♦ 2007 – Save Me
♦ 2006 – A Broken Sole
♦ 2005 – Ira & Abby
♦ 2000 – Joseph: King of Dreams
TV Shows
♦ 2024 – Kite Man: Hell Yeah!
♦ 2023 – Poker Face
♦ 2022–23 – Shining Vale
♦ 2022–23 – Julia
♦ 2022 – American Horror Stories
♦ 2021 – Impeachment: American Crime Story
♦ 2020 – Manhunt: Deadly Games
♦ 2019–20 – The Politician
♦ 2018–19 – Queen America
♦ 2018 – The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
♦ 2018 – The Good Fight
♦ 2017 – Doubt
♦ 2017 – I’m Sorry
♦ 2017 – Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
♦ 2014–19 – Transparent