Judy Wilson is an American

United States

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 casting director known for her work on soap opera

Soap opera

A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...

s. Between 1981 and 1987 she was casting director of Ryan's Hope

Ryan's Hope

Ryan's Hope is an American soap opera, revolving around 13 years of trials and tribulations within a large Irish American family in the Riverside district of New York City. It aired from July 7, 1975 to January 13, 1989 on ABC...

. In 1988, she started work on One Life to Live

One Life to Live

One Life to Live is an American soap opera which debuted on July 15, 1968 and has been broadcast on the ABC television network. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature racially and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social...

until she was moved to All My Children

All My Children

All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. The show features Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime's most...

in 1991.

Wilson has won three consecutive Daytime Emmy Awards for "Outstanding Achievement in Casting for a Drama Series" for her work with All My Children. She has been responsible for casting some of the most popular names in that show's history, including a young Sarah Michelle Gellar

Sarah Michelle Gellar

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 as Kendall Hart in 1993.

Wilson has won 6 Arios Awards from the Casting Society of America

Casting Society of America

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.

In 2005 she was the casting director of the short film Exit

Exit

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in which she cast actors from her previous soaps, Kassie DePaiva

Kassie DePaiva

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, who plays Blair on One Life to Live

One Life to Live

One Life to Live is an American soap opera which debuted on July 15, 1968 and has been broadcast on the ABC television network. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature racially and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social...

, and Jack Scalia

Jack Scalia

Jack Scalia is an American actor. He has had many roles in television series , television movies, and feature films.-Early life:...

, who played Christopher Stamp on All My Children.

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