Judith Ivey

Infobox actor
name = Judith Ivey

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birthplace = El Paso, Texas, U.S.
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tonyawards = Best Featured Actress in a Play
1983 "Steaming"
1985 "Hurlyburly"

Judith Lee Ivey (born September 4, 1951) is an American actress and director.

Biography

Personal life

Ivey was born in El Paso, Texas, the daughter of Dorothy Lee (née Lewis), a teacher, and Nathan Aldean Ivey, a college instructor and dean. [ [http://www.filmreference.com/film/79/Judith-Ivey.html Judith Ivey Biography (1951-) ] ] Ivey is an alumna of Illinois State University. She is married to Tim Braine (her second marriage) and the couple has two children. One child, Maggie, attends the prestigious Scripps College in California. Maggie is currently a women's studies major and a prominent women's rights activist on campus. Her favorite color is beige and she loves listening to popular music. Ivey's family also has two dogs and a cat. One of the dogs is a chocolate labrador retriever named Lucy. She and her family spend their summers on Nantucket where they have a house.

Career

Despite a long history of theater and film performances, Ivey is often associated with her one-year run on "Designing Women" in its final season, playing the Texan B.J. Poteet. Ivey replaced Julia Duffy's Alison Sugarbaker, who was herself a replacement for Delta Burke's character, Suzanne Sugarbaker. She also played a notable role on the television show "Will & Grace" where she portrayed the mother of Dr. Leo Markus.

Ivey won two Tony Awards as Best Featured Actress in a Play for "Steaming" in 1983 and "Hurlyburly" in 1985. She was also nominated for "Park Your Car in Harvard Yard" in 1992. Other theatre credits include "Piaf", "Bedroom Farce", "Precious Sons", "Blithe Spirit", "Voices in the Dark", "Follies" and "Dirty Tricks". In 2008, she will star in two Edward Albee one-acts at New York's Cherry Lane Theatre, "The American Dream" and "The Sandbox", directed by the playwright himself.

Ivey has been in many films, including "Brighton Beach Memoirs", "Miles from Home", "Compromising Positions", "Harry and Son", "Sister, Sister", "In Country", "Hello Again", "The Lonely Guy", "There Goes the Neighborhood", "The Devil's Advocate", and "What Alice Found".

Other television roles for Ivey include starring roles as Kate McCrorey in the 1990-91 series "Down Home", set in a Texas coastal town, and as Alexandria Buchanan in the short-lived series "The Five Mrs. Buchanans", created by Marc Cherry, who later created "Desperate Housewives". Ivey was also in the 1985 TV remake of "The Long Hot Summer", in the role of Noel Varner (Joanne Woodward's role in the 1958 film version). The miniseries also starred Jason Robards and Don Johnson, and was nominated for three Emmys.

tage directing credits

* "Vanities: A New Musical" -- [http://www.pasadenaplayhouse.org Pasadena Playhouse]
* "Fugue" -- Cherry Lane Theatre, off-Broadway
* "Southern Comforts" -- Primary Stages, off-Broadway
* "Bad Dates" -- Northlight Repertory Theatre, Chicago
* "Bad Dates" -- Laguna Playhouse
* "Steel Magnolias" -- Alley Theatre
* "More" -- Union Square Theatre, off-Broadway
* "More" -- Falcon Theatre, Los Angeles
* "Waiting for the Flood" -- ACT, San Francisco
* "Two for the Seesaw" -- Westport Playhouse
* "The Go-For-It Guy" -- Aspen Comedy Festival
* "Soccer Moms" -- Fleetwood Stage

References

External links

*ibdb|46301
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* [http://www.cherrylanetheatre.org/edwardalbee.htm Cherry Lane Theatre website]