WOMEN ON FIRE

Judith Ivey

has been performing on stage, film and television professionally for over twenty five years. While her just-released film, What Alice Found, won a special award at Sundance (Special Prize for Emotional Truth), and instantly sold out at the recent Tribeca Film Festival, and while you may catch her as Grace's Mom on Will and Grace, Ms. Ivey has graced Broadway stages since 1979 when she moved to New York City with productions such as Bedroom Farce and Piaf. Ms. Ivey won her first Tony award in 1983 for Best Actress in a Featured Role as Josie in Pam Gem's British import, Steaming. Her second Tony came in 1985 as Best Featured Actress in David Rabe's acclaimed Hurlyburly with William Hurt, Christopher Walken, Sigourney Weaver and Jerry Stiller. She has performed at the Public Theatre, The Manhattan Theatre Club and many other Off-Broadway houses as well. Ms. Ivey has gone on to play leading roles in Blithe Spirit with Richard Chamberlain and Geraldine Fitzgerald, Park Your Car in Harvard Yard with Jason Robards (Tony nomination for Best Actress), Precious Sons with Ed Harris, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, and A Fair Country by John Robin Baitz at Lincoln Center. She also starred on Broadway in Voices in the Dark by John Pielmeier and in the recent revival of Stephen Sondheim's Follies.

Judith's film career of more than 30 major features includes performances in The Lonely Guy with Steve Martin; The Woman in Red with Gene Wilder; Harry and Son with Paul Newman; Sister, Sister with Jennifer Jason Leigh; In Country with Bruce Willis; The Devil's Advocate with Al Pacino; Mystery, Alaska with Burt Reynolds and Washington Square with Albert Finney. Television credits include the final season of Designing Women on CBS, Down Home on NBC, Buddies on ABC, The Five Mrs. Buchanans on CBS, three Hallmark Hall of Fame television movies and many guest spots on hour-long dramas on all the major networks.

Ms. Ivey resides in New York City with her husband Tim Braine, a television and film producer, her daughter, Maggie and son, Tom.