Judith Lee Ivey was born on September 4,1951 and is an American actress and theatre director.
19 Facts About Judith Ivey
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Judith Ivey twice won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play: for Steaming and Hurlyburly.
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Judith Ivey received Best Actress In A Play nomination for Park Your Car in Harvard Yard and another Best Featured Actress in a Play nomination for The Heiress.
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Judith Ivey later appeared in the comedy films The Woman in Red, Compromising Positions, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Sister, Sister, and the drama films The Devil's Advocate and Women Talking, for which she received critical acclaim.
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On television, Judith Ivey played the leading role in the NBC sitcom Down Home, and played Bonnie Jean "BJ" Poteet during the final season of CBS sitcom Designing Women.
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Judith Lee Ivey was born on September 4,1951, in El Paso, Texas, the daughter of Nathan Aldean Ivey, a college instructor and dean, and Dorothy Lee, a teacher.
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Judith Ivey graduated from Marion High School in Marion, Illinois, in 1970, and then attended John A Logan College, Southern Illinois University, and Illinois State University.
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Judith Ivey won two Tony Awards as Best Featured Actress in a Play for Steaming in 1983 and Hurlyburly in 1985.
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Judith Ivey was nominated for Park Your Car in Harvard Yard in 1992 and a revival of The Heiress in 2013.
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Judith Ivey portrayed Amanda in The Glass Menagerie at the Long Wharf Theatre and reprised the role in March 2010 at the Roundabout Theatre in New York, as well as the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.
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Judith Ivey received the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Actress for that portrayal.
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Judith Ivey portrayed Ann Landers in the solo play The Lady with All the Answers at the Cherry Lane Theatre in October 2009.
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Judith Ivey was nominated for Best Solo Performance for the Lucille Lortel Award and Drama Desk Award.
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Judith Ivey had lead role of Kate McCrorey in the two-season series Down Home, set in a Texas coastal town.
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Judith Ivey was in the 1985 TV remake of The Long Hot Summer, in the role of Noel Varner.
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Judith Ivey was nominated for an Emmy for her performance in What the Deaf Man Heard, a Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation.
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Judith Ivey provided the voice of Eleanor Sherman in the animated series The Critic.
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Judith Ivey appeared in the television miniseries Rose Red as Cathy, one of the psychics investigating a haunted house.
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Judith Ivey is married to Tim Braine, and they have two children.