For her stage work in New York, Judith Ivey has been awarded the Tony Award twice, the Drama Desk Award twice, the OBIE Award, the Dramalogue award twice, and she was honored with the Topaz Award from Women in Film-Dallas. She has also been honored by the Drama League of New York three times, received an honorary doctorate from her alma mater, Illinois State University, and most recently, was inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame. Judy has starred in four TV series,"Designing Women" being the most memorable.
She was nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance in "What the Deaf Man Heard," a Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation. She has starred or was featured in over 40 films, both for the big and little screen. Some titles being "Harry and Son," "Compromising Positions," "The Woman in Red," " The Long, Hot Summer," "Brighton Beach Memoirs," "Sister, Sister," "There Goes the Neighborhood," "Love Hurts," " The Devil's Advocate," "Washington Square," "Half a Dozen Babies," "Mystery, Alaska," and "What Alice Found" which won the Grand Prize at the Deauville Film Festival, and a Special Jury prize at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. Her latest film, "Flags of Our Fathers," directed by Clint Eastwood, premiered Fall 2006.
Judith performed solo, portraying 12 different women in WOMEN ON FIRE by Irene O'Garden and directed by Mary B. Robinson at the Cherry Lane Theatre. For this performance, she received the Sydney Kingsley/Madge Evans Award from the Dramatists' Guild, and a Lucille Lortel nomination for Best Solo Performance. Judith also directed Yeardley Smith in her one-woman show, MORE, off-Broadway. And in July 2004, Judith starred as Desiree in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC for the LA Opera, opposite Victor Garber.
Judith has been happily married to Tim Braine for 18 years, and is the proud mother of Tom and Maggie.
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