Judith Light is known for her extensive body of television, film and stage work. This fall, she stars with Bette Midler and Ben Platt in Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series The Politician and the musical finale of the Golden Globe Award-winning Amazon Original series Transparent, created by Joey Soloway, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination and multiple Emmy and Critics’ Choice Award nominations. Last year, her role in Ryan Murphy’s The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story garnered her an Emmy nomination and a Critics Choice nomination.
Light stars with Alec Baldwin and Mandy Patinkin in Before You Know It, which premiered at Sundance and was picked up by distributor 1091, as well as Ms. White Light, which premiered at SXSW, and Lifeti
Judith Light is known for her extensive body of television, film and stage work. This fall, she stars with Bette Midler and Ben Platt in Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series The Politician and the musical finale of the Golden Globe Award-winning Amazon Original series Transparent, created by Joey Soloway, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination and multiple Emmy and Critics’ Choice Award nominations. Last year, her role in Ryan Murphy’s The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story garnered her an Emmy nomination and a Critics Choice nomination.
Light stars with Alec Baldwin and Mandy Patinkin in Before You Know It, which premiered at Sundance and was picked up by distributor 1091, as well as Ms. White Light, which premiered at SXSW, and Lifetime’s Nellie Bly with Christina Ricci. Upcoming, Light can be seen in the film Hot Air with Steve Coogan.
In 2017, Light starred in God Looked Away with Al Pacino at the Pasadena Playhouse. In 2016, the play All the Ways to Say I Love You at the MCC Theatre garnered her a Drama League Award nomination. For the Broadway production of Thérèse Raquin with Kiera Knightly, Light won an Outer Critics Circle Award. In 2012 and 2013, Light won two consecutive Tony and Drama Desk awards for her performances in Other Desert Cities and The Assembled Parties; these two performances dubbed her the first actress in nearly two decades to win consecutive Tonys.
She was awarded the Helen Hayes and Eliot Norton awards for the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit. In 2011, Light received a Tony Award nomination for her role as Marie Lombardi in Lombardi, directed by Thomas Kail.
Light starred in and produced the film Save Me, written by husband Robert Desiderio, which premiered at Sundance in 2007. The year before, Light could be seen in the indie film Ira and Abby.
Selected television credits include Ugly Betty (Emmy nomination), Law and Order, SVU, Dallas, Who’s the Boss, and One Life to Live (two consecutive Emmy Awards).
Light has been an impassioned advocate to end HIV/Aids and is a champion for LGBTQ and human rights and supports organizations such as Broadway Cares Equity Fights Aids, among many others. She is on the Board of Directors of the MCC Theatre in NYC.
