Transparent's Judith Light 'Botox doesn't work on me. I'm serious. I've tried it'
almost 6 years in The guardian
As she says goodbye to Shelly, the messy matriarch in Transparent, the star talks about nutty grandmas, missing her husband and cat – and her ‘sorrow’ over Jeffrey Tambor
‘I think we have thousands of people inside of us,” says Judith Light. It’s a midsummer afternoon and Light – blond, patrician, beautifully manicured– is sipping a scarlet iced tea in a swanky midtown New York hotel. In a navy blazer and slim trousers, she looks too elegant to contain multitudes.
But Light is an actress of surprising versatility and astonishing skill. After conservatory training and a stint in repertory theatre, she became a soap star on One Life to Live and a sitcom star on Who’s the Boss? Two decades later, she won back-to-back Tony awards and a special Tony award earlier this year for her activism in support of the LGBTQ community and HIV/Aids programmes. Continue reading...