Editing Judith Light (section)

=== Continued success and film expansion ===
After her success on daytime television, Light landed the leading role of assertive advertising executive Angela Bower on the ABC sitcom ''[[Who's the Boss?]]''.<ref name="biography.com" /> Co-starring [[Tony Danza]], who played her housekeeper (and eventual boyfriend), the show ran for eight seasons from 1984 to 1992. The series was successful in the ratings, consistently ranked in the top ten in the final primetime ratings between the years of 1985 and 1989, and has since continued in syndication. ''TV Guide'' ranked ''Who's the Boss?'' as the 109th best sitcom of all time.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}} Along with her work in ''Who's the Boss?,'' she starred in several television films, including ''Stamp of a Killer'' (1987) alongside [[Jimmy Smits]]; and the critically acclaimed biographical drama ''[[The Ryan White Story]]'' (1989), in which she played the mother of [[HIV/AIDS]] positive teenager [[Ryan White]]. [[File:Judith Light headshot.jpg|thumb|Light in 2007|upright]]
Light appeared in ''[[Wife, Mother, Murderer]]'' (1991), in which she played [[Audrey Marie Hilley]]. After ''Who's the Boss?,'' Light starred in another ABC sitcom, ''[[Phenom (TV series)|Phenom]]'', which ran for one season, 1993–94, before being canceled. In 1998 she starred in another short-lived sitcom, ''[[The Simple Life (1998 TV series)|The Simple Life]]'' on [[CBS]].<ref name="biography.com" /> She spent most of the 1990s starring in made-for-TV and feature films including ''[[Men Don't Tell]]'' and 1997's ''Too Close to Home'', which co-starred [[Ricky Schroder]]. In 1999, Light returned to the stage in the off-Broadway production of [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning play ''[[Wit (play)|Wit]]''. She earned strong reviews for her portrayal of Vivian Bearing, a university professor battling ovarian cancer, and reprised the role for the national tour.<ref name="biography.com" /><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.theatermirror.com/wwtap.htm | title=It's 'Wit,' Not Judith, That's Light | publisher=Theater Mirror | date=1999 | access-date=8 September 2014 | author=Alan W. Petrucelli | archive-date=4 March 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304120312/http://www.theatermirror.com/wwtap.htm | url-status=dead }}</ref> Light shaved her head for the role in the play.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nypost.com/1999/08/22/style-substance-judith-light/|title=Style & Substance: Judith Light|work=New York Post|date=August 22, 1999|access-date=8 September 2014|author=Farrah Weinstein}}</ref>

Light returned to television with the recurring role of [[Elizabeth Donnelly|Judge Elizabeth Donnelly]] in the [[NBC]] legal crime drama ''[[Law & Order: Special Victims Unit]]'' in 2002.<ref>{{cite web|date=February 25, 2002|title=Judith Light|url=https://variety.com/2002/scene/people-news/judith-light-1117861395/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140908140156if_/https://variety.com/2002/scene/people-news/judith-light-1117861395/|archive-date=8 September 2014|access-date=8 September 2014|work=Variety}}</ref> She appeared in 25 episodes of the series from 2002 to 2010. In 2004 she starred in another short-lived CBS sitcom, ''[[The Stones (TV series)|The Stones]]''.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://variety.com/2004/tv/reviews/the-stones-4-1200534549/ | title=Review: ''The Stones''|work=Variety|date=March 11, 2004 | access-date=8 September 2014 | author=Brian Lowry}}</ref> In 2006, Light joined the cast of the ABC comedy-drama series ''[[Ugly Betty]]'' as [[Claire Meade]], the mother of [[Alexis Meade|Alexis]] and [[Daniel Meade|Daniel]]. She was a recurring guest-star during the first season and was promoted to series regular as of the second. Light appeared in the show until the series finale in 2010. She was nominated for the [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series]] in 2007, and for the [[Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series]] in 2008, for her performance in show.<ref name="tvg" />

Light appeared in a number of films in the 2000s. She co-starred opposite [[Chris Messina]] and [[Jennifer Westfeldt]] in the 2006 romantic comedy film ''[[Ira & Abby]]''. In 2007, Light starred as a radical Christian woman in the independent film ''[[Save Me (2007 film)|Save Me]]''.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10007923-save_me/ | title=Save Me | website=Rotten Tomatoes | access-date=8 September 2014}}</ref> Light's character, Gayle, runs a Christian ministry known as Genesis House, which works to help gay men recover from their 'affliction.' She is challenged by the arrival of Mark, an ill gay man who reminds Gayle of her dead, homosexual son, and the movie chronicles the challenges of the two as they learn to accept each other as they are.