Judith Chapman (born Judith Shepard on November 15, 1951) is an American soap opera actress, best known for roles as Natalie Bannon Hughes in As the World Turns, Charlotte Greer on Ryan's Hope, Ginny Blake Webber on General Hospital, Sandra Montaigne on One Life to Live, Anjelica Deveraux Curtis on Days of Our Lives, and as Gloria Abbott Bardwell on The Young and the Restless.
Saugatuck Cures, 28 Days, Night of the Running Man, Mortal Fear, Scorpio One, Fire on the Amazon, Dead Space, Chameleons, And God Created Woman, Frankie and Johnny, Scalpel, Desire, Farrell for the People, Inmates: A Love Story
TV Shows
Ryan's Hope, The Young and the Restless
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Scorpio
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It seems that so many soaps seem to try to follow trends and are getting away from what soap operas have always been about: family, love, sex, illegitimate children, divorces and adultery. They have gotten into these strange story lines about bringing people back from the dead and supernatural phenomena, trying to find an audience.
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I left [Hollywood] in 1991. I was starting to reach that age where roles were getting harder to get, but even more than that, I lost my passion for it. I remember once saying that if acting stops being fun, please give me the good sense to do something else.
Spends some of her free time hosting dinner parties for deploying (and returning) Marines and their families at her and her husband's restaurant in Palm Springs.
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Her father was US Air Force Brigadier General Leland C. Shepard Jr., a pilot who eventually became deputy chief of staff for personnel for the Military Airlift Command.
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Hard drinking Vivien Leigh impersonator in San Diego production of "Orson's Shadow".
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Took a 14-year sabbatical from Hollywood, sold her L.A. home and moved to Palm Springs before returning to get the coveted role of scheming "Gloria Fisher Abbott" in The Young and the Restless (1973), replacing actress Joan Van Ark.
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Taught acting at the College of the Desert in Palm Springs and directed and acted there in local theater.
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