Biography

She was born on November 15, 1962 in Newark, New Jersey. She first did stand-up on a dare while a music student at Rutgers University. She is a lesbian, who shared a relationship with her former partner, Sharon, for almost 20 years. She has two children (Henry, 1996, and Ben, 2001), facts she frequently referenced in her comments on the show Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn. Gold is very active in both LGBT and Jewish communities. She was active in support of the 2004 and 2008 Democratic presidential campaign.

In an interview with Marc Maron, Gold revealed her comedic influences to be Joan Rivers, Phyllis Diller, and Totie Fields.

Her one-woman show 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, co-written with Kate Moira Ryan, is based on a series of interviews with more than 50 Jewish mothers in the United States. Their stories are interspersed with anecdotes about her own mother and her life as a lesbian mother of two sons. It ran at the Ars Nova Theater in New York City in early 2006 and reopened on October 12, 2006, at St. Luke's Theater.

Judy Gold also appears as a commentator on truTV's TruTV Presents: World's Dumbest....

In 2007 she was featured in the film Making Trouble, a tribute to female Jewish comedians, produced by the Jewish Women’s Archive.

In 2011, Gold was named a Givenik Ambassador.

In 2015, she will appear Off-Broadway as Eleanor Roosevelt in the satiric musical Clinton: The Musical at New World Stages.

The Judy Show: My Life as a Sitcom

On June 30, 2011, The Judy Gold Show: My Life as a Sitcom, began previews at Off-Broadway's DR2 Theatre in New York City. This one-woman show is an homage to the classic sitcoms of Gold's youth. The show is written by Gold and Kate Moira Ryan and directed by Amanda Charlton.

The show officially opened on July 6, 2011 to positive reviews. The New York Times called the show "highly entertaining." The New York Post called the show "gleefully self-deprecating". The show subsequently opened in Los Angeles June 18, 2013, and had a one-month run at the Geffen Playhouse.

Kill Me Now Podcast

Judy Gold began the Kill Me Now podcast with co-host Lauren Hennessy in May 2015. Guests have included Frank Conniff, Ted Alexandro and Mara Wilson.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	The Curse of the Jade Scorpion	Voltan's Participant
2004	Our Italian Husband	Nun #2

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	Roseanne	Amy	1 episode
1993	Rumor Has It	Panelist	1 episode
1994-1995	All American Girl	Gloria Schechter	18 episodes
1995	HBO Comedy Half-Hour: Judy Gold	Herself
1995	Here Come the Munsters	Elsa Munster Hyde	TV Movie
1995	The City	Judy Silver	1 episode
1996	Wings	Brenda	1 episode
1997	Lois Lives A Little		Short
1998	Arli$$		1 episode
2000	The Drew Carey Show	Leslie	2 episodes
2000	Law and Order	Deborah Patterson	1 episode
2000	Sidesplitters: The Burt & Dick Story	Dick's Mother	Short
2001	The Ballad of Lucy Whipple	Buck McPhee	TV Film
2002	Sex and the City	Barnes & Noble Clerk	1 episode
2002	Law and Order: Special Victims Unit	Forensic Gynecologist	1 episode
2003	Comic Remix	Herself	1 episode
2003	The Gynecologists	Mrs. LeBlanc	Short
2004	Ed	Judge Fisher	1 episode
2005	Here! Family		1 episode
2007-2008	Super Normal	The Roving Eye / Madam Midterm / Granny	15 episodes
2009	Ugly Betty	Joan	1 episode
2011	The Glades	Rebecca Thornquist	1 episode
2012	30 Rock	Judy Gold	1 episode
2013	The Big C	Rabbi	1 episode
2013	2 Broke Girls	Jerri	1 episode
2014	Melissa and Joey	Janey	2 episodes
2014	Teachers Lounge	Gym Teacher	1 episode
2015	Louie	Marina	1 episode
2015	The Jim Gaffigan Show	Judy Gold	1 episode
2016	Broad City	Angela	1 episode
2016	Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt	Judy	1 episode
2016	What’s Your F#@king Deal?!	Herself	Post-Production

Web

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2013	Real Actors Read Yelp	Herself	1 episode, streaming on YouTube
2015	Ambience	Estelle	1 episode, streaming online

Charities

Judy Gold supports the following charitable cause: Environment.

[ Source: Wikipedia ]