# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/judith-light
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:18:16.697Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/judith-light"
name: "Judith Light"
slug: "judith-light"
description: "Judith Ellen Light is an American actress. She made her professional stage debut in 1970, before making her Broadway debut in the 1975 revival of A Doll's House. Her breakthrough role was in the ABC daytime soap opera One Life to Live from 1977 to 1983, where she played the role of Karen Wolek; for this role, she won two consecutive Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1980 and 1981. In 2024, Light won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for Poker Face."
tagline: "American actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Judith_Light_headshot.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1949-02-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             10
  historical:           26.49146
  currentAttention:     10.44
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "judithlight"
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    handle:    "judithlight"
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  - platform:  "IMDB"
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    handle:    "nm0509937"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.judithlight.com/"
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    title: "جوڈت لائیٹ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Judith Light"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump