Judy Wilson

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Judy Wilson is an American casting director known for her work on soap operas. She started in 1981 as casting director of Ryan's Hope and served until 1987. She soon started work on One Life to Live in 1988. She stayed with this soap until she was moved to the popular All My Children in 1991.

She has won 3 consecutive Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Casting for a Drama Series for her work with AMC. She has been responsible for the casting some of the most popular names in that shows history. This includes a young Sarah Michelle Gellar as Kendall Hart in 1993. Many people in the industry have praised the quality of performance on this show over others of the genre.

She has won 6 Arios Awards from the Casting Society of America.

In 2005 she was the casting director of the short film Exit in which she cast popular actors from her previous soaps. Kassie DePaiva who plays Blair on One Life to Live and Jack Scalia who played Christopher Stamp on All My Children.