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Judith Ellen Light (born February 9, 1949) is an American actress and producer. She is a two-time Tony Award winner. Light made her professional stage debut in 1970, before making her Broadway debut in the 1975 revival of ''A Doll's House''. Her breakthrough role was in the ABC daytime soap opera ''One Life to Live'' from 1977 to 1983, where she played the role of Karen Wolek. For this role, she won two Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She later starred as Angela Bower in the long-running ABC sitcom ''Who's the Boss?'' from 1984 to 1992, and later starred in many television films and short-lived series. She played the recurring role of Elizabeth Donnelly in the NBC legal crime drama ''Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'' (2002–2010) and Claire Meade in the ABC comedy-drama ''Ugly Betty'' (2006–2010), for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in 2007. She received her first nomination for a Tony Award in 2011, for her performance in the original Broadway play ''Lombardi''. In 2012 and 2013, Light won two consecutive Tony Awards for Best Featured Actress in a Play, for her performances in ''Other Desert Cities'' and ''The Assembled Parties''. From 2013 to 2014, Light played the role of villainous Judith Brown Ryland in the TNT drama series, ''Dallas''. In 2014, she began starring as Shelly Pfefferman in the Amazon Studios critically acclaimed dark comedy-drama, ''Transparent'' for which she received Critics' Choice Television Award nomination. ==Early life== Light was born in Trenton, New Jersey, the daughter of Pearl Sue (née Hollander), a model, and Sidney Light, an accountant. Light graduated from high school in 1966 at St. Mary's Hall-Doane Academy, now Doane Academy, in Burlington, New Jersey. She graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a degree in drama.〔 She recalled the university as "rigorous" and "amazing". Afterwards, she started out on stage, making her professional debut in ''Richard III'' at the ''California Shakespeare Festival'' in 1970. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Judith Light」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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