Judith Hoag
{{short description|American actress (born 1963)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Judith Hoag
| image = Judith Hoag Photo Op GalaxyCon Raleigh 2024 (cropped).jpg
| caption = Hoag at GalaxyCon Raleigh in 2024
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1963|06|29}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izqme_ziPM4&t=192s|title=Wake Up Wednesday Live: Let's Get Real|date=January 26, 2022|access-date=January 26, 2022|website=Judith Hoag - Goddess On Fire (YouTube)}}
| birth_place = Newburyport, Massachusetts, U.S.
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| occupation = Actress
| yearsactive = 1986–present
| spouse = {{plainlist|
- {{marriage|Vince Grant|1988|2016|reason=divorced}}
- {{marriage|Phillip Stone|2021}}
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| children = 2
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Judith Hoag ({{IPAc-en|h|oʊ|g}}; born June 29, 1963{{better source needed|reason=WP:YOUTUBE.|date=April 2023}}) is an American actress. She is known for playing April O'Neil in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) and Gwen Cromwell Piper in the Disney Channel television film series Halloweentown, from 1998 to 2006.{{cite web|url=http://www.oct31st.org/2011/10/27/halloweentown-an-interview-with-judith-hoag/|title=Halloweentown: An Interview with Judith Hoag|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130615134350/http://www.oct31st.org/2011/10/27/halloweentown-an-interview-with-judith-hoag/|archivedate=June 15, 2013|website=oct31st.org|date=October 27, 2011|author=Adam}}
Hoag is also known for her recurring roles as Cindy Dutton Price in the HBO drama series Big Love (2006–2011), Tandy Hampton in the ABC musical drama series Nashville (2012–2018), and Stephanie Quinn in the Syfy fantasy drama series The Magicians (2016–2020).
Early life
Hoag was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts.{{citation needed |date=July 2023}} As a teen, Hoag attended Walnut Hill School in Natick, Massachusetts, where she concentrated on acting. She graduated in 1981.{{cite web|url=https://walnuthillarts.org/arts/theater/walnuts-in-the-world|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160319052340/https://walnuthillarts.org/arts/theater/walnuts-in-the-world|archive-date=March 19, 2016|title=Walnuts in the World - Walnut Hill School for the Arts|accessdate=November 4, 2022}}
Career
Hoag has acted professionally since 1986. That year, she got one of her first roles as a series regular in the ABC daytime soap opera Loving; she played the role of Charlotte 'Lotty' Bates Alden.{{citation needed |date=July 2023}} After leaving Loving in 1988, Hoag began her career in primetime television, and in next year won female lead role on CBS comedy series Wolf. The series was canceled after a single season. In 1990, she starred in films A Matter of Degrees and Cadillac Man.
Hoag is most well known for her role as April O'Neil in the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film.{{cite web|url=http://www.hollywood.com/celebrity/1334100/Judith_Hoag|title=Judith Hoag|website=Hollywood.com|access-date=June 3, 2016|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090630074054/www.hollywood.com/celebrity/1334100/Judith_Hoag|archivedate=June 30, 2009}} The film turned out to be a huge success at the box office, eventually making over $135 million in North America, and over $66 million outside North America, for a worldwide total of over $200 million, making it the ninth highest-grossing film of 1990 worldwide.{{cite web|title=Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)|work=Box Office Mojo|url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=teenagemutantninjaturtles.htm|access-date=September 24, 2006}} After Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fame, Hoag starred in a number of pilots not picked up as a series, and appeared in several television films, including Fine Things by Danielle Steel, and Switched at Birth opposite Bonnie Bedelia.
Hoag received further recognition as Gwen Cromwell Piper in the Disney Channel Halloweentown franchise, appearing in Halloweentown (1998), Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge (2001), Halloweentown High (2004) and Return to Halloweentown (2006). In a 2020 Galaxy Con question-and-answer panel, Hoag revealed she had a meeting with the head of Walt Disney Television where she read for the part and got cast in the role after it was revealed that the head's son was a die-hard Ninja Turtle fan as Hoag had previously played April O'Neil in 1990's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.{{YouTube|id=QSYfGj06b84|time=8m40s|title='Halloweentown' GalaxyCon Q&A Panel 2020 (8m40s Timestamp)}}
She also appeared in the films Armageddon (1998), Flying By (2009), I Am Number Four (2011) and Hitchcock (2012),{{cite web|url=http://movies.nytimes.com/person/32578/Judith-Hoag/filmography|title=Judith Hoag Movies & TV|website=The New York Times|access-date=2021-04-12|archive-date=2012-07-10|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120710231136/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/32578/Judith-Hoag/filmography|url-status=bot: unknown}} and has made over 60 guest appearances on television shows, including Quantum Leap, Melrose Place, Roseanne, The Nanny, Murder, She Wrote, Chicago Hope, The X-Files, Six Feet Under, Ghost Whisperer, NYPD Blue, Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice, CSI: NY, Criminal Minds, Sons of Anarchy, Castle, The Middle, Grimm and among other notable television series.{{citation needed |date=July 2023}}
From 2006 to 2011, Hoag also appeared as Cindy Price on the HBO drama series Big Love.
File:Judith Hoag Photo Op GalaxyCon Raleigh 2019.jpg Raleigh in 2019.]]
In 2012, Hoag was cast in a recurring role in the ABC drama series Nashville created by Academy Award winner Callie Khouri.{{cite web|url=http://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/nashville-2012/|title=Nashville (2012)|website=TVSeriesFinale|date=October 7, 2012}} She plays the poised and driven Tandy Hampton, daughter and protégé of Lamar Wyatt. She referees sister Rayna (Connie Britton) and Lamar's (Powers Boothe) contentious relationship, trying to calm the waters.{{cite web|url=http://digitaljournal.com/article/350745|title=A conversation with Judith Hoag: Nashville's Tandy Wyatt|publisher=Digital Journal|date=May 24, 2013|access-date=June 29, 2013|first=Mindy|last=Peterson|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130615005238/digitaljournal.com/article/350745|archivedate=June 15, 2013}} She appeared total in 40 episodes, include almost every episode during the first two seasons.
In 2015, Hoag filmed a cameo for the 2016 film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows,{{cite news|last1=Perry|first1=Spencer|title=New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 Set Photos Reveal Surprise Appearance|url=https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/439055-new-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-2-set-photos-reveal-surprise-appearance|access-date=May 12, 2015|work=comingsoon.net|date=May 11, 2015|archive-date=August 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813153651/https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/439055-new-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-2-set-photos-reveal-surprise-appearance|url-status=dead}} but the scene with her was cut from the final film.{{cite web|url=https://www.cinemablend.com/new/Cool-Cameo-Was-Cut-Out-Teenage-Mutant-Ninja-Turtles-2-134417.html|title=The Cool Cameo That Was Cut Out Of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2|website=CinemaBlend|date=May 31, 2016|access-date=June 3, 2016|first=Adam|last=Holmes|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160601103604/www.cinemablend.com/new/Cool-Cameo-Was-Cut-Out-Teenage-Mutant-Ninja-Turtles-2-134417.html|archivedate=June 1, 2016}} Her scene later appeared in the film's home media release.{{cite web|url=https://yahoo.com/entertainment/megan-fox-her-predecessor-collide-000000224.html|title=Megan Fox and the Original April O'Neil Collide in 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows' Deleted Scene (Exclusive!)|website=Yahoo! Entertainment|date=September 6, 2016|first=Nick|last=Schager|accessdate=November 4, 2022}}
From 2016 to 2020, Hoag appeared in a recurring role as Olivia Taylor Dudley's character mother in the Syfy fantasy series The Magicians, and played a supporting role in the 2018 romantic drama film Forever My Girl.{{Cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/forever_my_girl|title=Forever My Girl (2018)|via=Rotten Tomatoes}}
Personal life
In 1988, she married actor Vince Grant.{{citation needed |date=July 2023}} They have two children, a son and a daughter. The couple divorced in 2016.{{Cite web|url=http://www.odssf.com/biography/judith-hoag|title=Judith Hoag biography, married, husband, vince grant, net worth|website=www.odssf.com}} On February 13, 2021, she married Phillip Stone.{{cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/CLVeaGLAtKG/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/s/instagram/CLVeaGLAtKG |archive-date=2021-12-24 |url-access=registration|title=The Gleeful Elopers!|website= @judithhoagofficial's Instagram|date=February 15, 2021|access-date=April 17, 2021}}{{cbignore}}
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable"| Notes |
|---|
| 1990
| Kate Blum | |
| 1990
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | |
| 1990
| Molly | |
| 1997
| Here Dies Another Day | Charlotte | |
| 1998
| Denise Chappel | |
| 1999
| Bad City Blues | Callilou Carter | |
| 2006
| Salt | Rebecca | |
| 2009
| Vicki | |
| 2010
| Doctor | Uncredited |
| 2011
| Wish Wizard | Mrs. Casey | |
| 2011
| Sarah's Mom | |
| 2012
| Lillian | |
| 2013
| Petal Dubois | |
| 2014
| Destroyer | Debbie | Short film |
| 2016
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows | Rita | Cameo; Scenes deleted |
| 2017
|Fishbowl |Macy | |
| 2017
|DC Noir |Mary Sullivan | |
| 2018
|Dr. Whitman | |
| 2020
|Laugh. Love. Karaoke. |Ruby | |
| 2021
|Jennifer Sinclair | |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable"| Notes |
|---|
| 1986
| Kevin's Friend | Episode: "The Little Sister" |
| 1986–1987
| Loving | Charlotte 'Lotty' Bates Alden | Unknown episodes |
| 1988
| Eileen Kingsley | Episode: "Skeletons in the Closet" |
| 1989
| {{n/a}} | Episode: "Elysian Fields" |
| 1989–1990
| Wolf | Melissa Shaw Elliott | 11 episodes |
| 1990
| Ellen | Episode: "The Littlest Cowboy" |
| 1990
| The Knife and Gun Club | Dr. Annie Falk | Television film |
| 1990
| Molly | Television film |
| 1991
| Barbara Mays | Television film |
| 1991
| Murder in High Places | Meg Faithorn | Television film |
| 1991
| Lenny | Megan | Episode: "My Boyfriend's Black and There Gonna Be Trouble" |
| 1992
| Julie Miller | Episode: "Nowhere to Run - August 10, 1968" |
| 1992
| Roseanne | Kerry | Episode: "Looking for Loans in All the Wrong Places" |
| 1992
| Sarah Goldstein | 2 episodes |
| 1992
| Gretchen Price | Episode: "Programmed for Murder" |
| 1993
| The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. | Iphigenia Poole | Episode: "Socrates' Sister" |
| 1993
| Lainie Flanders | Episode: "Family Matters" |
| 1993
| Gail Black | Television film |
| 1994
| Dream On | Pamela | Episode: "Hey, Nanny Nanny" |
| 1994
| Katherine Porter / Kathy Marie O'Malley | Episode: "Material Fran" |
| 1994
| Nancy Godfrey | Episode: "To Kill a Legend" |
| 1994
| Hardball | Barbara | Episode: "My Name Is Hard B." |
| 1994
| Doris | Episode: "The Ride Home" |
| 1995
| Cory Shaw | Episode: "Baby Mine" |
| 1995
| A Mother's Gift | Sarah Lutz | Television film |
| 1997
| Dr. Meredith Schrager | 2 episodes |
| 1997
| Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction | {{n/a}} | Episode: "From the Agency" |
| 1997
| Dr. Gabrielle | Episode: "One Flew Over the Cuda's Nest" |
| 1997
| Judy | 2 episodes |
| 1997
| Valerie | Television film |
| 1998
| Maureen Hunt | Episode: "We Are Not Alone" |
| 1998
| Claire Broderick | Episode: "Payback" |
| 1998
| Gwen Cromwell Piper | Television film |
| 1998–2000
| Captain Angela Wiley | 2 episodes |
| 1999
| Regina Tyler | Episode: "Down Came the Rain" |
| 1999
| Susan Marcus | Episode: "Pig in Providence" |
| 1999
| Tina Hofmeister | Episode: "Kiss of Death" |
| 1999
| Dr. Mindy Rinehart | Episode: "Hungry" |
| 2000
| Janet | Episode: "A House Divided" |
| 2001
| Bonnie Manning | Episode: "Redheaded Stepchild" |
| 2001
| Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge | Gwen Cromwell Piper | Television film |
| 2002
| Beth Thomas | Episode: "Chapter Thirty-Five" |
| 2002
| Dawn | Episode: "Out, Out, Brief Candle" |
| 2002
| ER | Mrs. Brenner | Episode: "Next of Kin" |
| 2003
| Carol Miller | Episode: "Maple Street" |
| 2003
| Alice Ross | Episode: "Conspiracy" |
| 2003
| Miss Jolene | Episode: "Black Blizzard" |
| 2003
| Ria Lewicki | Episode: "Hazel Park" |
| 2004
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Merill Maguire | Episode: "Getting Off" |
| 2004
| {{n/a}} | Episode: "Love and Games" |
| 2004
| Mrs. Johnson | Episode: "High and Dry" |
| 2004
| Paige Matheson | Episode: "I Love My Wives, But Oh You Kid" |
| 2004
| Gwen Cromwell Piper | Television film |
| 2005
| JAG | Mildred Evans | Episode: "Fair Winds and Following Seas" |
| 2005
| Terry the Madam | Episode: "Suburban Prostitution" |
| 2006
| Syndi Saltzman | Episode: "Wind Beneath My Wing" |
| 2006
| Bones | Helen Granger | Episode: "The Superhero in the Alley" |
| 2006
| Melanie Goldman | Episode: "Still Graduating" |
| 2006
| Angela Morrison | Episode: "Drowned Lives" |
| 2006
| Gwen Cromwell Piper | Television film |
| 2006–2011
| Big Love | Cindy Dutton Price | 13 episodes |
| 2007
| Rhada Douglas | 2 episodes |
| 2007
| Mrs. Cole | Episode: "Keeping Up Appearances" |
| 2007
| Marie Gilford | Television film |
| 2007
| Dr. Raine Van Aiken | Episode: "Welcome to the Club" |
| 2008
| Alison | Episode: "Adapt to Adopt" |
| 2008
| Rita Pierce | Episode: "Friends with Benefits" |
| 2008
| Karen Oswald | Episode: "Fun Town" |
| 2008
| Sandra Boatwright | Episode: "Red Hair and Silver Tape" |
| 2009
| Charlotte Dent | Episode: "Diamond Jane" |
| 2010
| CSI: NY | Mrs. Reynolds | Episode: "Criminal Justice" |
| 2010
| Angie McConnell | 3 episodes |
| 2010
| Weeds | Dana | Episode: "Fran Tarkenton" |
| 2011
| Courtney Noland | Episode: "Noland v. Galloway Pharmaceuticals" |
| 2011
| Margie Packard | Episode: "There's a Lot to Miss About the Jungle" |
| 2011
| Sharon Harris | Episode: "Meet the Shannons" |
| 2011
| Castle | Mrs. Hamilton | Episode: "Head Case" |
| 2011
| Grimm | Mrs. Jessup | Episode: "Danse Macabre" |
| 2011
| The Craigslist Killer | Patricia Banks | Television film |
| 2012
| Diana Mitchell | Episode: "Unknown Subject" |
| 2012
| Mrs. Jennings | Episode: "Get Your Business Done" |
| 2012
| Donna | Episode: "Swimmers and Losers" |
| 2012
| Patricia Reid | Television film |
| 2012–2018
| Tandy Hampton | 41 episodes |
| 2016–2020
| Stephanie Quinn | 5 episodes |
References
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