Age: 56
Birthplace: Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
Judith Hoag (born June 29, 1968) is an American actress. She is best known for portraying April O'Neil in the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film in 1990, and as Gwen Cromwell Piper in the Disney Channel Halloweentown television films series. She is also known for her role as Tandy Hampton in the ABC drama series Nashville.
Hoag has acted professionally since 1986. That year, she got one of her first gigs as a series regular in the ABC daytime soap opera Loving in the role of Charlotte 'Lotty' Bates Alden . After leaving Loving in 1988, Hoag began her career in primetime television, and in next year won female lead role on CBS comedy series Wolf. The series was canceled after a single season. In 1990 she starred in films A Matter of Degrees and Cadillac Man, and later was cast as April O'Neil in the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie.
Hoag is most well known for her role as April O'Neil in the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film. The film turned out to be a huge success at the box office, eventually making over $135 million in North America, and over $66 million outside North America for a worldwide total of over $200 million, making it the ninth highest grossing film of 1990 worldwide. After Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fame, Hoag starred in a number of pilots not picked up as a series, and appeared in several television films, including Fine Things by Danielle Steel, and Switched at Birth opposite Bonnie Bedelia.
Hoag starred as Gwen Cromwell Piper in the Disney Channel Halloweentown television films series: Halloweentown (1998), Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge (2001), Halloweentown High (2004) and Return to Halloweentown (2006). She also appeared in the films Armageddon (1998), Flying By (2009), I Am Number Four (2011) and Hitchcock (2012).
Hoag has made over 60 guest appearances on television shows, including Quantum Leap, Melrose Place, Roseanne, The Nanny, Murder, She Wrote, The X-Files, Six Feet Under, Ghost Whisperer, NYPD Blue, Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice, CSI: NY, Criminal Minds, Sons of Anarchy, Castle, The Middle, Grimm and among other notable television series. From 2006 to 2011, Hoag also appeared as Cindy Price on the HBO drama series Big Love.
In 2012, Hoag was cast in recurring role in the ABC drama series Nashville created by Academy Award winner Callie Khouri. She plays the poised and driven Tandy Hampton, daughter and protégé of Lamar Wyatt. She referees sister Rayna (Connie Britton) and Lamar (Powers Boothe) contentious relationship, trying to calm the waters. Hoag will appear in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, but this time in a different role which has yet to be revealed.
Hoag was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts. As a teen, Hoag attended Walnut Hill School in Natick, Massachusetts where she concentrated on acting. In 1988, she married actor Vince Grant.
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1990 | A Matter of Degrees | Kate Bum | |
1990 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | April O'Neil | |
1990 | Cadillac Man | Molly | |
1990 | The Knife and Gun Club | Dr. Annie Falk | Television film |
1990 | Fine Things | Molly | Television film |
1991 | Switched at Birth | Barbara Mays | Television film |
1991 | Murder in High Places | Meg Faithorn | Television film |
1993 | Acting on Impulse | Gail Black | Television film |
1995 | A Mother's Gift | Sarah Lutz | Television film |
1997 | Here Dies Another Day | Charlotte | |
1997 | Breast Men | Valerie | Television film |
1998 | Armageddon | Denise Chappel | |
1998 | Halloweentown | Gwen Cromwell Piper | Television film |
1999 | Bad City Blues | Callilou Carter | |
2001 | Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge | Gwen Cromwell Piper | Television film |
2004 | Halloweentown High | Gwen Cromwell Piper | Television film |
2006 | Return to Halloweentown | Gwen Cromwell Piper | Television film |
2006 | Salt | Rebecca | |
2007 | Final Approach | Marie Gilford | Television film |
2009 | Flying By | Vicki | |
2010 | A Nightmare On Elm Street | Doctor | Uncredited |
2011 | The Craigslist Killer | Patricia Banks | Television film |
2011 | Wish Wizard | Mrs. Casey | |
2011 | I Am Number Four | Sarah's Mom | |
2012 | Sexting in Suburbia | Patricia Reid | Television film |
2012 | Hitchcock | Lillian | |
2013 | Bad Words | Petal Dubois | |
2014 | Destroyer | Debbie | Short film |
2016 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1986 | American Playhouse | Kevin's Friend | Episode: "The Little Sister" |
1986-1987 | Loving | Charlotte 'Lotty' Bates Alden | Unknown episodes |
1988 | Spenser: For Hire | Eileen Kingsley | Episode: "Skeletons in the Closet" |
1989 | CBS Summer Playhouse | N/A | Episode: "Elysian Fields" |
1989-1990 | Wolf | Melissa Shaw Elliott | 11 episodes |
1990 | The Young Riders | N/A | Episode: "The Littlest Cowboy" |
1991 | Lenny | Megan | Episode: "My Boyfriend's Black and There Gonna Be Trouble" |
1992 | Quantum Leap | Julie Miller | Episode: "Nowhere to Run - August 10, 1968" |
1992 | Roseanne | Kerry | Episode: "Looking for Loans in All the Wrong Places" |
1992 | Melrose Place | Sarah Goldstein | 2 episodes |
1992 | Murder, She Wrote | Gretchen Price | Episode: "Programmed for Murder" |
1993 | The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. | Iphigenia Poole | Episode: "Socrates' Sister" |
1993 | Walker, Texas Ranger | Lainie Flanders | Episode: "Family Matters" |
1994 | Dream On | Pamela | Episode: "Hey, Nanny Nanny" |
1994 | The Nanny | Katherine Porter / Kathy Marie O'Malley | Episode: "Material Fran" |
1994 | Murder, She Wrote | Nancy Godfrey | Episode: "To Kill a Legend" |
1994 | Hardball | Barbara | Episode: "My Name Is Hard B." |
1994 | Mad About You | Doris | Episode: "The Ride Home" |
1995 | Sweet Justice | Cory Shaw | Episode: "Baby Mine" |
1997 | The Burning Zone | Dr. Meredith Schrager | 2 episodes |
1997 | Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction | N/A | Episode: "From the Agency" |
1997 | Nash Bridges | Dr. Gabrielle | Episode: "One Flew Over the Cuda's Nest" |
1997 | Nothing Sacred | Judy | 2 episodes |
1998 | Pensacola: Wings of Gold | Maureen Hunt | Episode: "We Are Not Alone" |
1998 | Soldier of Fortune, Inc. | Claire Broderick | Episode: "Payback" |
1999 | Strange World | Regina Tyler | Episode: "Down Came the Rain" |
1999 | Providence | Susan Marcus | Episode: "Pig in Providence" |
1999 | Pig in Providence | Tina Hofmeister | Episode: "Kiss of Death" |
1999 | The X-Files | Dr. Mindy Rinehart | Episode: "Hungry" |
2000 | Touched by an Angel | Janet | Episode: "A House Divided" |
1998-2000 | The Pretender | Captain Angela Wiley | 2 episodes |
2001 | Judging Amy | Bonnie Manning | Episode: "Redheaded Stepchild" |
2002 | Boston Public | Beth Thomas | Episode: "Chapter Thirty-Five" |
2002 | Six Feet Under | Dawn | Episode: "Out, Out, Brief Candle" |
2002 | ER | Mrs. Brenner | Episode: "Next of Kin" |
2003 | Without a Trace | Carol Miller | Episode: "Maple Street" |
2003 | Crossing Jordan | Alice Ross | Episode: "Conspiracy" |
2003 | Carnivàle | Miss Jolene | Episode: "Black Blizzard" |
2003 | The Guardian | Ria Lewicki | Episode: "Hazel Park" |
2004 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Merill Maguire | Episode: "Getting Off" |
2004 | Century City | N/A | Episode: "Love and Games" |
2004 | 7th Heaven | Mrs. Johnson | Episode: "High and Dry" |
2004 | NYPD Blue | Paige Matheson | Episode: "I Love My Wives, But Oh You Kid" |
2005 | JAG | Mildred Evans | Episode: "Fair Winds and Following Seas" |
2005 | Close to Home | Terry the Madam | Episode: "Suburban Prostitution" |
2006 | Commander in Chief | Syndi Saltzman | Episode: "Wind Beneath My Wing" |
2006 | Bones | Helen Granger | Episode: "The Superhero in the Alley" |
2006 | Still Standing | Melanie Goldman | Episode: "Still Graduating" |
2006 | Ghost Whisperer | Angela Morrison | Episode: "Drowned Lives" |
2007 | Grey's Anatomy | Rhada Douglas | 2 episodes |
2007 | Notes from the Underbelly | Mrs. Cole | Episode: "Keeping Up Appearances" |
2007 | Women's Murder Club | Dr. Raine Van Aiken | Episode: "Welcome to the Club" |
2008 | Swingtown | Rita Pierce | Episode: "Friends with Benefits" |
2008 | Sons of Anarchy | Karen Oswald | Episode: "Fun Town" |
2008 | The Mentalist | Sandra Boatwright | Episode: "Red Hair and Silver Tape" |
2009 | The Forgotten | Charlotte Dent | Episode: "Diamond Jane" |
2010 | CSI: NY | Mrs. Reynolds | Episode: "Criminal Justice" |
2010 | Private Practice | Angie McConnell | 3 episodes |
2010 | Weeds | Dana | Episode: "Fran Tarkenton" |
2006-2011 | Big Love | Cindy Dutton Price | 13 episodes |
2011 | The Defenders | Courtney Noland | Episode: "Noland v. Galloway Pharmaceuticals" |
2011 | Off the Map | Margie Packard | Episode: "There's a Lot to Miss About the Jungle" |
2011 | In Plain Sight | Sharon Harris | Episode: "Meet the Shannons" |
2011 | Castle | Mrs. Hamilton | Episode: "Head Case" |
2011 | Grimm | Mrs. Jessup | Episode: "Danse Macabre" |
2012 | Criminal Minds | Diana Mitchell | Episode: "Unknown Subject" |
2012 | The Middle | Mrs. Jennings | Episode: "Get Your Business Done" |
2012 | Happily Divorced | Donna | Episode: "Swimmers and Losers " |
2012-2016 | Nashville | Tandy Hampton | Recurring role Seasons 1-2, Guest Season 3; 38 episodes |