- Born
- Birth nameJudith Chapman Shepard
- Height5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
- Judith Chapman was born on November 15, 1951 in Greenville, South Carolina, USA. She is an actress, known for The Young and the Restless (1973), The Sweetest Thing (2002) and 28 Days (2000). She was previously married to Neilan Tyree.
- SpouseNeilan Tyree(December 8, 1984 - 1986) (divorced)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Also teaches yoga.
- Hard drinking Vivien Leigh impersonator in San Diego production of "Orson's Shadow".
- 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.
- 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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