Judith Light
Actor
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Judith Ellen Light (born February 9, 1949) is an American actress. Her television roles include Karen Wolek on the soap opera One Life to Live, Angela Bower on the sitcom Who's the Boss?, Claire Meade on ABC's TV series Ugly Betty and Judge Elizabeth (Liz) Donnelly on Law & Order Special Victims Unit.
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Ben Platt: Live from Radio City Music Hall (2020)
As: Self
Backed by a full band and a ready wit, actor Ben Platt opens up a very personal songbook onstage -- numbers from his debut LP, "Sing to Me Instead."
Runtime: 85 min.
Directed by: Alex Timbers | Sam Wrench
Stars: Zoey Deutch | Ben Platt | Crystal Monee Hall | Kojo Littles | Allen Rene Louis
Transparent: Musicale Finale (2019)
As: Shelly Pfefferman
When the Pfeffermans face a life-changing loss, they begin a journey hilarious and melancholy, brazen and bold. As they face this new transition, they confront grief and come together to celebrate connection, joy, and transformation.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Jill Soloway
Stars: Amy Landecker | Gaby Hoffmann | Kathryn Hahn | Jay Duplass | Judith Light
Ms. White Light (2019)
As: Val
Ms. White Light is the story of Lex Cordova, a young woman who counsels terminally ill clients that have trouble letting go. While proving uniquely talented in her ability to connect with the dying, Lex is at a total loss when it comes to dealing with everyone else. When Valerie, a sharp-tongued free spirit who simply has no time for her own mortality, refuses to play by Lex's rules, Lex is forced to ...
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Paul Shoulberg
Stars: John Ortiz | Roberta Colindrez | Judith Light | Zachary Spicer | Carson Meyer
Before You Know It (2019)
As: Sherrell
A long-kept family secret thrusts codependent, thirty-something sisters Rachel and Jackie Gurner into a literal soap opera. A journey that proves that you really can come of age, at any age.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Hannah Pearl Utt
Stars: Mike Colter | Mandy Patinkin | Judith Light | Hannah Pearl Utt | Jen Tullock
Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story (2019)
As: Matron Grady
An investigative reporter Nellie Bly, who’s on a mission to expose the deplorable conditions and mistreatment of patients at the notorious Women’s Lunatic Asylum, and feigns mental illness in order to be institutionalized to report from the inside. The movie is an account of actual events surrounding Nellie’s stay beginning after she has undergone treatment, leaving her with no recollection ...
Directed by: Karen Moncrieff
Stars: Joshua Bowman | Anja Savcic | Christina Ricci | Judith Light | Nikki Duval
Hot Air (2018)
As: Judith Montefiore-Salters
A right wing talk show host's life takes a sudden turn when his 16 year old niece comes crashing into his life.
Directed by: Frank Coraci
Stars: Steve Coogan | Skylar Astin | Neve Campbell | Judith Light | Taylor Russell
You'll Have the Sky: The Life and Work of Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2016)
As: Narrator
A film portrayal of a pioneering aviator and best-selling author whose extraordinary public life had a deep impact on her inner world.
Runtime: 27 min.
Directed by: Susan Wallner
Stars: Lily Rabe | Charles A. Lindbergh | Judith Light | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | Reeve Lindbergh
Digging for Fire (2015)
As: Grandma
Tim and Lee are married with a young child. The chance to stay at a fancy home in the Hollywood Hills is complicated by Tim's discovery of a bone and a rusty old gun in the yard. Tim is excited by the idea of a mystery, but Lee doesn't want him to dig any further, preferring that he focus on the family taxes, which he promised to do weeks ago. This disagreement sends them on separate and unexpected ...
Runtime: 85 min.
Directed by: Joe Swanberg
Stars: Orlando Bloom | Sam Rockwell | Brie Larson | Rosemarie DeWitt | Jake Johnson
Intimate Agony (2015)
As: Marsha
Anthony Geary (General Hospital) stars as a compassionate doctor who must treat an STD outbreak at an upscale vacation resort. Judith Light (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) co-stars as an afflicted resident whose heart is broken by this personal tragedy. A despicable real estate tycoon played by Robert Vaughn (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) is determined to keep the scandal from the press and thus ...
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Paul Wendkos
Stars: Mark Harmon | Robert Vaughn | Arthur Hill | Anthony Geary | Judith Light
Last Weekend (2014)
As: Veronika Goss
When an affluent matriarch 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.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Tom Dolby | Tom Williams
Stars: Patricia Clarkson | Zachary Booth | Julio Oscar Mechoso | Joseph Cross | Rutina Wesley
Save Me (2007)
As: Gayle
A sex and drug addicted young man who is forced into a Christian-run ministry in an attempt to cure him of his "gay affliction", where instead he is faced with the truth in his heart and spirit.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Robert Cary
Stars: Arron Shiver | Chad Allen | Jeremy Glazer | David Petruzzi | Robert Gant
Ira & Abby (2006)
A neurotic, young psychology student, with low self-esteem, has a chance encounter with a free-spirited, extremely gregarious woman who works at the Paris Health Club in New York City, and who suggests that they immediately get married to see how it will work out. Both of the student's parents are analysts, and they provide the happy couple with a gift certificate for a year of marriage counseling as a ...
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Robert Cary
Stars: Chris Messina | David Margulies | Kali Rocha | Kevin Sussman | Jennifer Westfeldt
Joseph: King of Dreams (2000)
As: Zuleika (voice)
In this animated retelling of the story from the Bible's Book of Genesis, Joseph's gift of dream interpretation and his brilliantly colored coat inspires jealousy in his brothers.
Runtime: 75 min.
Directed by: Robert C. Ramirez | Rob LaDuca
Stars: Mark Hamill | Ben Affleck | Jodi Benson | Richard Herd | Maureen McGovern
Carriers (1998)
As: Maj. Carmen Travis
Directed by: Alan Metzer
Stars: Philip Bosco | Pamela Reed | Bill Nunn | Judith Light | Michael Burgess
A Step Toward Tomorrow (1997)
As: Anna Lerner
A divorcee moves her family cross-country to take her paralyzed son to a pioneer neurosurgeon.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Deborah Reinisch
Stars: Alfre Woodard | Christopher Reeve | Kendall Cunningham | Tom Irwin | Judith Light
Too Close To Home (1997)
As: Diana Donahue
A mother is so consumed with a possessive love for her son that she may have committed murder in order to keep him by her side. When the son's new wife is found murdered, the mother is arrested for the crime. In denial about his mother's guilt, the son, a successful lawyer, agrees to defend her. Based on a true story.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Bill Corcoran
Stars: Sarah Trigger | Ricky Schroder | Judith Light
Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End (1997)
Moving documentary about writer Paul Monette
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Monte Bramer
Stars: Tom Hulce | Linda Hunt | Robert Desiderio | Judith Light | Paul Monette
Murder at My Door (1996)
As: Irene McNair
In a quiet neighborhood, a suburban family is shocked when their son is the prime suspect in the brutal murder of a neighbor's daughter.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Eric Till
Stars: Grace Zabriskie | Johnny Galecki | Judith Light | Vanessa King | Jennifer Carmichael
A Husband, a Wife and a Lover (1996)
As: Lisa McKeever
When her cheating husband has a debilitating stroke, a woman invites her lover to move in with them.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Ted Kotcheff
Stars: Jay Thomas | William Russ | Robin Dunne | Judith Light
Lady Killer (1995)
As: Janice Mitchell
Married woman has brief affair with younger man who turns violent when she breaks it off.
Runtime: 85 min.
Directed by: Steven Schachter
Stars: Tracey Gold | Jack Wagner | Ben Masters | Judith Light | Elizabeth Lennie
Against Their Will: Women in Prison (1994)
As: Alice Needham
Behind prison walls, corruption, sex and power make criminals out of the guards and heroes out of the guarded. For more than a decade, the lawless guards inside a maximum security women's prison have reigned with impunity - rape, sex for money and illegal favors have become the norm until one woman decides to battle the system. Leading a group of inmates on a risky life-or-death struggle for justice, a ten ...
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Karen Arthur
Stars: Stacy Keach | Tonya Pinkins | Chelcie Ross | Michael Woods | Judith Light
Men Don't Tell (1993)
As: Laura MacAffrey
This movie shows another side to spousal abuse that not too many people thought is possible--the husband being abused and the wife the abuser.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Harry Winer
Stars: Stephen Lee | Noble Willingham | Peter Strauss | Judith Light | James Gannon
Wife, Mother, Murderer (1991)
As: Marie Hilley
Based on the true story of an Alabama woman who was convicted of killing her first husband and attempting to poison her daughter. Out on bail, she flees in order to start a new life with two new identities.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Mel Damski
Stars: David Ogden Stiers | David Dukes | Judith Light | Kellie Overbey
In Defense of a Married Man (1990)
As: Laura Simmons
When a defense lawyer's adulterous husband becomes the prime suspect in the murder of the woman he was cheating with, his wife chooses to defend him. Can she overcome his betrayal while searching for the truth?
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Joel Oliansky
Stars: Johnny Galecki | Jerry Orbach | Michael Ontkean | Cynthia Sikes | Judith Light
My Boyfriend's Back (1989)
As: Vickie Vine
A female singing group from the '60s reunites for a TV special.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Paul Schneider
Stars: Sandy Duncan | John Sanderford | Stephen Macht | Jill Eikenberry | Judith Light
The Ryan White Story (1989)
As: Jeanne White
The story of Ryan White, a 13-year-old haemophiliac who contracted AIDS from factor VIII, which was used to control this disorder.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: John Herzfeld
Stars: Sarah Jessica Parker | George Dzundza | Michael Bowen | Nikki Cox | Judith Light
Stamp of a Killer (1987)
As: Cathy Proctor
A thriller directed by Larry Elikann.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Larry Elikann
Stars: Jimmy Smits | Audra Lindley | Rhea Perlman | Billy O'Sullivan | Judith Light
Tick, Tick… Boom! ()
Based on the autobiographical musical by playwright Jonathan Larson, it is the story of an aspiring composer in New York City who is worried he made the wrong career choice.
Directed by: Lin-Manuel Miranda
Stars: Andrew Garfield | Vanessa Hudgens | Robin de Jesús | Alexandra Shipp | Joshua Henry