Judith LightFilmography

Born:: February 9, 1949 in Trenton, NJ
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Judith Ellen Licht
Biography:: Though she is normally recognized as Angela Bower, the prissy, executive counterpart to Tony Danza's rough-hewn Italian nanny on the long-running television series Who's the Boss?, Judith Light considers her crowning achievement to be her activism in the fight against AIDS and gender...Read More

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Save Me

Crew: Producer

Actors: Chad Allen, Robert Gant, Judith Light, Stephen Lang, Robert Baker

Synopsis: They say that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and in this look at one of the most polarizing religious and sexual debates in America, filmmaker Robert Cary attempts to reconcile homosexuality with Christianity. Mark (Chad Allen) is a young gay man who has fallen into a dangerous Read More

9/5/08
Ugly Betty: Season 03

Actors: America Ferrera, Eric Mabius, Tony Plana, Ana Ortiz, Vanessa Williams

2008
A Broken Sole

Actors: Danny Aiello, Judith Light, Laila Robins, Bob Dishy, Margaret Colin, John Shea

Synopsis: Six people become three couples in the wake of the emotional chaos of 9/11 in this three-part drama adapted from the off-Broadway play by Susan Charlotte. Hilary (Judith Light) is a fifty-something movie buff who teaches film studies. On the afternoon of September 11, she discovers there's a hole Read More

11/2/07
Ira & Abby

Actors: Chris Messina, Jennifer Westfeldt, Frances Conroy, Fred Willard, Judith Light

Synopsis: Love at first sight has some interesting repercussions a few months down the line in this offbeat romantic comedy. Ira Black (Chris Messina) is a wildly neurotic thirtysomething who can't get his life in gear -- the son of a pair of therapists, Arlene (Judith Light) and Seymour (Robert Klein), Ira Read More

9/14/07
Ugly Betty: Season 02

Actors: America Ferrera, Eric Mabius, Tony Plana, Ana Ortiz, Vanessa Williams

2007
Twenty Good Years [TV Series]

Actors: John Lithgow, Jeffrey Tambor, Heather Burns, Jake Sandvig, Judith Light

Synopsis: Unlike many of the other sitcoms of the 2006-2007 series which catered to the under-30 crowd, Twenty Good Years was carefully calculated to appeal to the "oldsters" in the audience--that is, anyone over 30. Seasoned comedy pros John Lithgow and Jeffrey Tambor were cast respectively as pompous Read More

2006
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Obscene

Synopsis: Clearly inspired by the FCC crackdown after Janet Jackson's controversial "wardrobe malfunction", this episode focuses on two publicity-hungry public figures: Carolyn Spencer (Dana Delany), the head of an anti-smut campaign targeted at "dirty" TV shows, and BJ Cameron (Lewis Black), a Read More

2004
The Stones [TV Series]

Actors: Judith Light, Lindsay Sloane, Jay Baruchel, Robert Klein, Kimberly McCullough

2004
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Conscience

Synopsis: Detectives Stabler (Christopher Meloni) and Benson (Mariska Hargitay) investigate when the five-year-old son of prominent psychiatrist Brett Morton (Kyle MacLachlan) vanishes from a toy store. Though the most obvious suspect would seem to be the convicted child molester seen hanging around the Read More

2004
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Doubt

Synopsis: The SVU investigates when graduate student Myra Denning (Shannyn Sosamon) claims that she was raped by college advisor Ron Polikoff (Billy Campbell). A voluntary DNA exam reveals that Polikoff has indeed been intimate with Myra--but he tells a different story of their relationship, insisting that Read More

2004
Joseph: King of Dreams

Actors: Ben Affleck, Mark Hamill, Steven Weber, Jodi Benson, Maureen McGovern

Synopsis: The Biblical story of Joseph comes to life in this animated feature from the creators of The Prince of Egypt. Adventure and music set the stage for this tale of a boy named Joseph (voice of Ben Affleck) whose dreams bring him powerful visions of the future. Joseph's abilities to prognosticate win Read More

2000
American Experience: The Wizard of Photography - The Story of George Eastman

Actors: Judith Light, Peter Gallagher

Synopsis: This edition of The American Experience investigates the life and work of George Eastman, the man who brought cameras and photography into the lives of millions of Americans. Narrated by Judith Light, this video chronicles the fierce competition and often embarrassing failures Eastman had to Read More

2000
The Simple Life [TV Series]

Actors: Judith Light, Brett Cullen, Florence Stanley, Ashlee Levitch, James Patrick Stuart

Synopsis: This TV sitcom apparently was inspired by the low concept of Martha Stewart meets Green Acres, since the central character is country-living TV host Sara Campbell (Judith Light) who feels it's deceptive to do a show about life in the country as part of the population in New York City. So she Read More

1998
Intimate Portrait: Judith Light

1998
Carriers

Actors: Judith Light, Pamela Reed, Philip Bosco, Bill Nunn, Collin Wilcox Paxton

Synopsis: Army doctor Carmen Travis (Judith Light) is hot on the trail of a killer virus. Tracing the source of the scourge from Africa to a government facility in Alabama, Carmen and her assistant Holly Parker (Pamela Reed) abruptly run up against the stone wall of conspiracy. It seems that the virus is Read More

1998
Too Close to Home

Synopsis: 29-year-old defense lawyer Nick Donahue (Rick Schroder) is still tied to the apron strings of his possessive mother Diana (Judith Light)--so much so that, when he tries to move out of the family home, Diana is able to bind him even tighter by attempting suicide. While visiting Diana in the Read More

1997
A Strange Affair

Actors: Judith Light, Jay Thomas, William Russ

Synopsis: A cuckolded wife finds renewed happiness in the arms of another after leaving her faithless spouse. But when the husband becomes deathly ill, she agrees to take care of him, even though it could mean losing her new lover. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1996
Murder at My Door

Actors: Judith Light, Johnny Galecki, Grace Zabriskie, R.H. Thomson, Keegan Macintosh

Synopsis: In this made-for-television drama a mother tires to learn the truth about her college-age son following the murder of a neighborhood girl. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1996
A Step Toward Tomorrow

Synopsis: After her son Georgie (Kendall Cunningham) is paralyzed in a diving accident, feisty divorcee Anna Lerner (Judith Light) vows never to take a moment's rest until she finds a cure for her boy's affliction. Ultimately, Anna moves herself, Georgie and her "normal" son to a new town, there to Read More

1996
Lady Killer

Actors: Tracey Gold, Judith Light, Jack Wagner

Synopsis: Tracey Gold and Judith Light star as mother and daughter respectively, in this tense made-for-television thriller. Light stars as Janice Mitchell, mother and philandering wife, who comes to rue the day she ever got involved with her revenge-bent, ex-lover. Jack Wagner stars as the obsessed lover Read More

1995
Against Their Will: Women in Prison

1994
Betrayal of Trust

Actors: Judith Light, Judd Hirsch, Betty Buckley, Holland Taylor

Synopsis: A chilling exploration of the violation of doctor/patient trust, this made-for-TV drama is based on actual events. Singer Barbara Noel (Judith Light) is a mess. Tired of her constant depression and the effect it has had upon her husband and family, she goes to see the renowned psychiatrist Dr. Read More

1994
Men Don't Tell

Synopsis: Unique among the many made-for-TV dramas about spousal abuse--most of which are about women victimized by men--Men Don't Tell dramatizes the true story of a loving husband who is terrorized by the violent behavior of his wife. Ed MacAffrey (Peter Strauss) has long endured the physical and Read More

1993
Phenom [TV Series]

Actors: Judith Light, Angela Goethals, Todd Louiso, William Devane

1993
Wife, Mother, Murderer

Actors: Judith Light, David Dukes, David Ogden Stiers, Kellie Overbey, Whip Hubley

Synopsis: Wife, Mother, Murderer stars Judith Light as all three of the above. She plays social-climbing Alabaman Marie Hilley, who between 1975 and 1987 schemed, lied, and killed her way to the top of the ladder. Her victims were her husband and daughter, whom she poisoned because they stood in the way of Read More

1991
In Defense of a Married Man

Actors: Judith Light, Michael Ontkean

Synopsis: This TV movie is not necessarily in defense of married man Michael Ontkean. That responsibility is taken by Judith Light, Ontkean's wife. When Ontkean is accused of murdering his mistress (Cynthia Sikes), his wife Light, a defense attorney, handles the case. Beyond the unavoidable emotional Read More

1990
My Boyfriend's Back

Synopsis: Sandy Duncan, Judith Light, and Jill Eikenberry star in director Paul Schneider's made-for-television musical comedy about a 1960s-era female singing trio that reunites to take part in a television special produced to pay tribute to the pop superstars of yesteryear. Back in the 1960s, pop was king Read More

1989
The Ryan White Story

Actors: Lukas Haas, Judith Light, George C. Scott

Synopsis: Ryan White was the teenaged hemophiliac who contacted AIDS through a blood transfusion, then was barred from attending school in Kokomo, Indiana. All but ostracized by the community, Ryan's mother (Judith Light) engages the services of a high-powered attorney (George C. Scott) to win back her Read More

1988
Dangerous Affection

Synopsis: In this thriller, a pregnant woman and her son, who witnessed a murder, are stalked by the murderer. Chaos ensues as she tries to escape. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1987
Stamp of a Killer

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV crime drama a cop pursues a homicidal maniac. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1987
Who's the Boss?: Season 01

Actors: Tony Danza, Judith Light, Katherine Helmond, Alyssa Milano, Danny Pintauro

1984
Intimate Agony

Synopsis: This once-timely made-for-TV drama was originally titled Lovesick: The Herpes Story until wiser heads prevailed. Soap-opera favorites Anthony Geary and Judith Light starred as dedicated doctor Kyle Richardson and lovelorn tourist Marsha Sarno in this saga of a genital-herpes outbreak in a posh Read More

1983
Kojak: Monkey on a String

Synopsis: Joseph Hindy guest stars as Vince Pomerantz, a veteran New York cop with a serious gambling problem. Faced with ever-mounting debts, Pomerantz decides that the only way to save himself is to go "on the take." Unfortunately, he is now indebted to a mobster who demands that Vince square himself Read More

1977