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Long before _Transparent_, for which she's now Emmy-nominated for her work as Shelly Pfefferman, Judith Light was a soap star when soaps were a much bigger deal than they are now.
Playing Karen Wolek on _One Life To Live_, she won two Daytime Emmys and became known for a devastating performance in a courtroom scene in which Karen was forced to acknowledge publicly
that although she was married to a doctor, she was secretly also a sex worker. She later moved on to _Who's The Boss_, where she had a totally different role as Angela Bower, a working
single mom who hired Tony Micelli (Tony Danza) as her housekeeper and nanny. She also had significant roles on _Ugly Betty_and _Law & Order: SVU_, and she managed to win two Tony Awards
along the way, for her performances in _Other Desert Cities_in 2012 and _The Assembled Parties_in 2013. We sat down to talk about how Shelly's doing at the end of _Transparent_'s
third season, how Light herself is doing following some changes in her own life, and why she swore she'd never do soaps or sitcoms and ended up learning a tremendous amount from both.
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