Judith E. Light (A 1970)

2017 Alumni Lifetime (Distinguished) Achievement Award

Bio

Judith Light’s (CFA 1970) career has spanned five decades and garnered multiple awards, including Tonys and Daytime Emmys. She stars in Amazon’s groundbreaking and Emmy-award winning television comedy “Transparent,” a role for which she has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Her stage career includes six Broadway productions, including back-to-back Tony award winning turns in “Other Desert Cities” in 2012 and “The Assembled Parties” in 2013. She also has been a prominent face on television since the 1970s, with starring roles in ABC’s soap opera “One Life to Live,” the long-running ABC sitcom “Who’s the Boss,” the ABC comedy “Ugly Betty” and as Shelly Pfefferman on “Transparent.”

In addition to her acting career, Light has been a prominent advocate of the LGBTQ community, supporting organizations, including Point Foundation and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids.