Judy Gold (born November 15, 1962) is an American stand-up comic. She won two Daytime Emmy Awards for her work as a writer and producer on The Rosie O'Donnell Show. She has also been involved in many projects in various roles, including the television series All-American Girl and HBO At the Multiplex segments where she asks humorous questions of unexpecting moviegoers.She first did stand-up on a dare while a music student at Rutgers University. She is a lesbian, who shared a relationship with her former partner, Sharon, for almost 20 years. She has two children (Henry, 1996, and Ben, 2001), facts she frequently referenced in her comments on the show Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn. Gold is very active in both LGBT and Jewish communities. She was active in support of the 2004 and 2008 Democratic presidential campaign.Her one-woman show 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, co-written with Kate Moira Ryan, is based on a series of interviews with more than 50 Jewish mothers in the United States. Their stories are interspersed with anecdotes about her own mother and her life as a lesbian mother of two sons. It ran at the Ars Nova Theater in New York City in early 2006 and reopened on October 12, 2006, at St. Luke's Theater.Judy Gold also appears as a commentator on truTV's TruTV Presents: World's Dumbest....In 2007 she was featured in the film Making Trouble, a tribute to female Jewish comedians, produced by the Jewish Women’s Archive.In 2011, Gold was named a Givenik Ambassador.
Ruth Gold, Harold Gold, New York, NY, United States, Philadelphia, PA, United States, Owings Mills, MD, United States
Siblings
Jane Gold, Alan Gold, New York, NY, United States, Philadelphia, PA, United States, Owings Mills, MD, United States
Partner
Elysa Halpern, Elysa Halpern
Awards
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show, GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding New York Theater: Broadway and Off-Broadway, New York, NY, United States, Philadelphia, PA, United States, Owings Mills, MD, United States
Nominations
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance, Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Writing, Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Solo Performance, New York, NY, United States, Philadelphia, PA, United States, Owings Mills, MD, United States
Movies
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple, Stand-Up 360: Edition 4, All Aboard! Rosie's Family Cruise, Stand-Up 360: Inside Out, New York, NY, United States, Philadelphia, PA, United States, Owings Mills, MD, United States
TV Shows
New York, NY, United States, Philadelphia, PA, United States, Owings Mills, MD, United States, truTV Presents: World's Dumbest..., Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, The City, All-American Girl, Wisecrack, Relative Madness
Star Sign
Scorpio
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Fact
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She and her partner, Wendy, live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with their sons, Henry (born 1998) and Ben (born 2003) [September 2008]
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She graduated from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1984.
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She was raised in Clark, New Jersey by her parents, Harold and Ruth Gold.
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She has one sister, Jane, and a brother, Alan.
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She and her partner have two sons. Her partner gave birth to their first, Henry, and Judy gave birth to their second, Ben.