Judith Shekoni
- Actress
Judith Shekoni has been in the industry for over 20 years. Her career started with EastEnders (1985) (BBC) and Hallmark series, The Hidden City (2002). This helped her break the US market where she has appeared on every major US network. Mike & Molly (2010) (with Melissa McCarthy, CBS), Backstrom (2015) (with Rainn Wilson, Fox), NCIS : Enquêtes spéciales (2003) & NCIS : Los Angeles (2009) (CBS), Brothers & Sisters (2006) (ABC), Damages (2006) (FOX), Un gars du Queens (1998) (CBS), All of Us (2003) (CW), major streaming networks and huge studio and independent films.
She worked with Oscar-winning director Bill Condon on the immensely successful Twilight franchise, Twilight: Chapitre 5 - Révélation, 2e partie (2012), as Zafrina, the leader of the Amazonian Vampires. She played a leading role in Heroes Reborn (2015) (opposite Zachary Levi); it premiered at the Toronto Film festival 2015, and then had a two hour US network premiere on NBC-TV. In the UK, she was seen on the BBC drama series Ordinary Lies (2015) (written by BAFTA winner Daniel Brocklehurst). She recently finished two seasons of the 10 part drama series Ice (2016) opposite Donald Sutherland and Ray Winston. She then returned to the big screen for Disney as Shriek in Maleficient 2 opposite Angelina Jolie and can currently (2023) be seen in the Apple TV Series Foundation.
She worked with Oscar-winning director Bill Condon on the immensely successful Twilight franchise, Twilight: Chapitre 5 - Révélation, 2e partie (2012), as Zafrina, the leader of the Amazonian Vampires. She played a leading role in Heroes Reborn (2015) (opposite Zachary Levi); it premiered at the Toronto Film festival 2015, and then had a two hour US network premiere on NBC-TV. In the UK, she was seen on the BBC drama series Ordinary Lies (2015) (written by BAFTA winner Daniel Brocklehurst). She recently finished two seasons of the 10 part drama series Ice (2016) opposite Donald Sutherland and Ray Winston. She then returned to the big screen for Disney as Shriek in Maleficient 2 opposite Angelina Jolie and can currently (2023) be seen in the Apple TV Series Foundation.
