# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/judith-ivey
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:00:25.631Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/judith-ivey"
name: "Judith Ivey"
slug: "judith-ivey"
description: "Judith Lee Ivey is an American actress and theatre director. She has twice won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for Steaming (1981) and Hurlyburly (1984). She also received Best Actress In A Play nomination for Park Your Car in Harvard Yard (1992) and another Best Featured Actress in a Play nomination for The Heiress.\nIvey made her big screen debut playing the female lead role in the 1984 romantic comedy film, The Lonely Guy. She later appeared in the comedy films The Woman in Red (1984), Compromising Positions (1985), Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986), Sister, Sister (1987), and the drama films The Devil's Advocate (1997) and Women Talking (2022), for which she received critical acclaim. On television, Ivey played the leading role in the NBC sitcom Down Home (1990-91), and played Bonnie Jean \"BJ\" Poteet during the final season of CBS sitcom Designing Women (1992-93). For her role in the television film What the Deaf Man Heard (1997), she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie."
tagline: "American actress and theatre director"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/yaeKvc55qRoE3snY5axr86dQnHp.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1951-09-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.61
  momentum:             1.851100811123986
  historical:           16.76988
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0412382"
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    title: "Айви, Джудит"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump