Judith Light graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a BFA and has worked in repertory theatre throughout the United States and Canada. She also performed in Europe with the USO. She debuted on Broadway in A Doll's House with Liv Ullman and did a season with the Eugene O'Neil Playwright's conference.

Light received two Emmys for Best Actress for her role in the ABC daytime drama One Life to Live, starred on the long-running hit primetime TV series, Who's the Boss? and has starred in 15 movies for television.

She returned to the New York theatre to do the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit for the MCC Theatre, and won the Helen Hayes and Eliot Norton Awards for Best Actress on the National Tour. Light also performed in Hedda Gabler at the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington DC, and later starred in Athol Fugard's Sorrows and Rejoicings at the Second Stage Theatre in New York City and at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. She appeared in the Los Angeles Reprise! Broadway's Best production of Stephen Sondheim's Company and joined the Ojai Playwrights Conference for their 2004 season. More recently she appeared in MCC's production of Colder Than Here with Brian Murray at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in New York for their 2005 season.

In addition to her role as Claire, the matriarch of the dysfunctional Meade family on ABC's Ugly Betty, Light recently appeared as a guest star on the NBC hit series &Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. She also recently produced and starred in the film Save Me with Chad Allen and Robert Gant. Her first feature film was Ira & Abby with Robert Klein, Fred Willard and Frances Conroy.

Light is an advocate for many organizations and charities representing AIDS-related and Human Rights issues, including Broadway Cares Equity Fight Aids, The Names Project, AIDS Memorial Quilt, Project Angel Food, The Point Foundation, The Trevor Project, The Aids Memorial Grove and Hollywood Health & Society.

PERSONAL INFORMATION
HOMETOWN Trenton, NJ
BIRTHDATE February 9