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Emmy Award winning actress and comedian, Judy Gold is best known as the star of the critically acclaimed long-running Off Broadway hit show 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, for which she was nominated for a 2006 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance. Judy’s new show, It’s Jewdy’s Show – My Life As A Sitcom just debuted to rave reviews. Most recently, Judy has been in the cast of Nora & Delia Ephron’s Off-Broadway play, “Love, Loss and What I Wore,” and she can be seen regularly on Tru TV’s The Smoking Gun Presents. Her numerous credits include guest-hosting ABC’s The View, and appearances on The Joy Behar Show, Ugly Betty, and The Wendy Williams Show. She hosted HBO’s At the Multiplex with Judy Gold from 1999 - 2009, Comedy Central's 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time and the GLAAD MEDIA AWARDS, and her stand-up specials include Comedy Central Presents: Judy Gold, Comedy Central’s Tough Crowd Stands Up, and Judy’s HBO half-hour special, which received a Cable Ace Award. Gold won two Emmy Awards for writing and producing The Rosie O’Donnell Show and was nominated twice for The American Comedy Award’s funniest female stand-up. Gold, who lives in New York City with her two children, frequently tours theatres and comedy clubs around the country. Her CD, Judith’s Roommate Had a Baby is currently available. Check out www.JudyGold.com for more details, and find out where Judy is playing near you here.

Judy is one of the five gay celebrities asked by the Focus Features website – to coincide with the release of The Kids Are All Right, Lisa Cholodenko’s comedy about unconventional families – to pick her five favorite movies about families.