Who is Jayne Houdyshell?
Jayne Houdyshell must surely be noted for her work in the series "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" in her part as Judge Ruth Linden. Over several appearances as a judge in the New York Family Court she certainly conveyed lawyer-like rigidity and judgmental firmness, but combined that with an underlying motherly understanding exactly appropriate to Family Court.
Trivia
- Won 2016 Tony Award for her performance in "The Humans.".
- Won the Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play Tony Award for "The Humans" on June 12, 2016.
- In 2017, she received her 4th Tony Award nomination in 10 years. Her award-winning Broadway performances include "Well," "Follies," "The Humans," and "A Doll's House, Part 2.".
- She was awarded the 2005 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Supporting Role in a Play for "The Pain and the Itch", at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois.
- She spent most of the 2016-2017 season simultaneously co-starring with Sarah Steele for several months on Broadway in the Tony Award-winning production of "The Humans," and on CBS television in "The Good Wife" spin-off "The Good Fight.".