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Judith Light TV Listings

ChannelDate & TimeTitleBuy
TVGNThu, Nov 12, 7:00 PMUgly BettyBuy
ABCFri, Nov 13, 9:00 PMUgly Betty NewBuy
SOAPMon, Nov 16, 8:00 AMOne Life to LiveBuy
ABCMon, Nov 16, 2:00 PMOne Life to Live NewBuy
SOAPMon, Nov 16, 9:00 PMOne Life to Live NewBuy
SOAPTue, Nov 17, 2:00 AMOne Life to LiveBuy
SOAPTue, Nov 17, 8:00 AMOne Life to LiveBuy
ABCTue, Nov 17, 2:00 PMOne Life to Live NewBuy
USATue, Nov 17, 3:00 PMLaw & Order: Special Victims UnitBuy
USATue, Nov 17, 8:00 PMLaw & Order: Special Victims UnitBuy
SOAPTue, Nov 17, 9:00 PMOne Life to Live NewBuy
USATue, Nov 17, 10:00 PMLaw & Order: Special Victims UnitBuy
SOAPWed, Nov 18, 2:00 AMOne Life to LiveBuy
SOAPWed, Nov 18, 8:00 AMOne Life to LiveBuy
ABCWed, Nov 18, 2:00 PMOne Life to Live NewBuy
SOAPWed, Nov 18, 9:00 PMOne Life to Live NewBuy
SOAPThu, Nov 19, 2:00 AMOne Life to LiveBuy
SOAPThu, Nov 19, 8:00 AMOne Life to LiveBuy
ABCThu, Nov 19, 2:00 PMOne Life to Live NewBuy
TVGNThu, Nov 19, 7:00 PMUgly BettyBuy
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Judith Light Biography

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