Biographie

One of her performances on One Life to Live (1968) - "Karen Wolek on the Stand" - was so powerful and is remembered so vividly that, to this day, it is used as a model in acting classes through the nation. Additionally, it was recently honored as being one of TV Guide's "100 Most Memorable Moments on Television".

Born and raised in Trenton, New Jersey, her parents nurtured her interest in acting through her childhood and supported her decision to study in a summer program at Carnegie-Mellon University between her junior and senior years of high school. This experience prompted her to enroll in that institution where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.

She stated the reason she never had children was not because she did not want them, it was because if she wanted to have children, she wanted to be a full-time mother and with an acting career, she would not have been able to do that.

Shaved her head completely to star as Vivian Bearing (a literary academic dying of ovarian cancer) in the off-Broadway show "Wit" (1999).

For her outstanding performance in the off-Broadway tour of "Wit", Judith received the Helen Hayes Award in Washington, D.C., as well as the Elliot Norton Award in Boston.