Judith Light (born February 9, 1949) is an American actress. Her television roles include One Life to Live, Who's the Boss?, Ugly Betty and Law & Order Special Victims Unit.

Filmography

• 2026The Punisher: One Last Kill — Ma
• The Terror: Devil in Silver — Dorry
• All's Fair — Sheila Baskin
• Before — Lynn
• Kite Man: Hell Yeah! — Helen Villigan (voice)
• 2024Out of My Mind — Mrs. V.
• 2023Down Low — Sandy
• Poker Face — Irene Smothers
• 2023The Young Wife — Cookie
• Julia — Blanche Knopf
• Shining Vale — Joan
• 2022The Menu — Anne
• 2022The Same Storm — Shirlee Salt
• American Horror Stories — Virginia Mellon
• 2021tick, tick... BOOM! — Rosa Stevens
• 2019Before You Know It — Sherrell Ghearhardt
• 2019Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story — Matron Grady
• 2019Ms. White Light — Val
• The Politician — Dede Standish
• 2019Transparent: Musicale Finale — Shelly Pfefferman
• 2018Hot Air — Judith
• Manhunt — Bobi Jewell
• The Good Fight — Deirdre Quinn
• American Crime Story — Susan Carpenter-McMillan, Marilyn Miglin
• 2016You'll Have the Sky: The Life and Work of Anne Morrow Lindbergh — Narrator
• 2015Digging for Fire — Grandma
• 2014Last Weekend — Veronika Goss
• Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero — Mrs. Wright (voice)
• Transparent — Shelly Pfefferman
• 2014We'll Never Have Paris — Jean
• 2012Rhymes with Banana — Judith Light
• 2012Scrooge & Marley — Narrator (voice)
• The Exes — Marjorie
• 20102Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift — (archive footage)
• Nurse Jackie — Maureen Cooper
• 2008Save Me — Gayle
• 2006Ira & Abby — Arlene Black
• Twenty Good Years — Gina
• Ugly Betty — Claire Meade
• The Stones — Barbara Stone
• 2000Joseph: King of Dreams — Zuleika (voice)
• Family Guy — Judith Light (voice)
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Elizabeth Donnelly
• 1998Carriers — Maj. Carmen Travis
• The Simple Life — Sara Campbell
• Cow and Chicken — Nurse (voice)
• I Am Weasel — Nurse (voice)
• 1997Too Close to Home — Diana Donahue
• 1996A Husband, a Wife and a Lover — Lisa McKeever, Co-Executive Producer
• 1996A Step Toward Tomorrow — Anna Lerner
• 1996Murder at My Door — Irene McNair
• Spin City — Christine
• 1995Lady Killer — Janice Mitchell
• 1994Against Their Will — Alice Needham
• 1994Betrayal of Trust — Barbara Noël
• Duckman — Ursula Bacon 'Honey' Chicken (voice)
• 1993Men Don't Tell — Laura MacAffrey
• Phenom — Dianne Doolan
• 1991Wife, Mother, Murderer: The Marie Hilley Story — Marie Hilley
• 1990In Defense of a Married Man — Laura Simmons
• 1989My Boyfriend's Back — Vickie Vine
• 1989The Ryan White Story — Jeanne White
• American Experience — Narrator (voice)
• 1987Stamp of a Killer — Cathy Proctor
• Who's the Boss? — Angela Bower
• 1983Intimate Agony — Marsha
• Family Ties — Stacey Hughes
• Remington Steele — Clarissa Custer
• St. Elsewhere — Barbara Lonnicker
• 1978Rush It
• Kojak — Laetitia Pomerantz
• One Life to Live — Karen Wolek
• The Sham

Appearances as themselves (14)

• Shut Up Evan — Self - Guest
• 2020Ben Platt: Live from Radio City Music Hall — Self
• Stars in the House — Self - Special Guest
• The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest
• Trailblazer Honors — Self - Speaker
• 2011Heart of Broadway: The Ensemble Behind Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS — Herself
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen — Self - Guest
• The Tony Danza Show — Self - Guest
• 1997Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End — Self
• The Rosie O'Donnell Show — Self - Guest
• Intimate Portrait — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
• Tony Awards — Self - Nominee