Judith Hoag

Judith Hoag (born June 29, 1968) is an American actress.
In regards to Disney, she is best known for playing Gwen Piper in the Halloweentown Franchise.
== Early Life ==
Hoag was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts. As a teen, Hoag attended Walnut Hill School in Natick, Massachusetts where she concentrated on acting.
== 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 in the role of Charlotte 'Lotty' Bates Alden. 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 cancelled 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. 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. 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). She also appeared in the films Armageddon (1998), Flying By (2009), I Am Number Four (2011) and Hitchcock (2012).
Hoag has made over 60 guest appearances on television shows, including Quantum Leap, Melrose Place, Roseanne, The Nanny, Murder, She Wrote, 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. From 2006 to 2011, Hoag also appeared as Cindy Price on the HBO drama series Big Love.
In 2012, Hoag was cast in a recurring role in the ABC drama series Nashville created by Academy Award winner Callie Khouri. 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. She appeared total in 40 episodes, include almost every episode during the first two seasons. Hoag later filmed a cameo in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, but the scene with her was cut from the final film. Hoag later went to appear in a recurring role as Olivia Taylor Dudley's character mother in the Syfy fantasy series The Magicians, and played supporting role in the romantic drama film Forever My Girl. 
== Personal Life ==
In 1988, she married actor Vince Grant. They have two children, a son, and a daughter. The couple divorced in 2016. On February 13, 2021, she married Phillip Stone.
== Filmography ==
=== Film ===
Year	Title 	Role
1990	A Matter of Degrees 	Kate Bum
1990	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 	April O'Neil
1990	Cadillac Man 	Molly
1997	Here Dies Another Day 	Charlotte
1998	Armageddon 	Denise Chappel
1998	Halloweentown 	Gwen Piper
1999	Bad City Blues 	Callilou Carter
2001	Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge 	Gwen Piper
2004	Halloweentown High 	Gwen Piper
2006	Salt 	Rebecca
2006	Return to Halloweentown 	Gwen Piper
2009	Flying By 	Vicki
2010	A Nightmare On Elm Street 	Doctor
2011	Wish Wizard 	Mrs. Casey
2011	I Am Number Four 	Sarah's Mom
2012	Hitchcock 	Lillian
2013	Bad Words 	Petal Dubois
2014	Destroyer 	Debbie
2016	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows	Rita
2017	Fishbowl 	Macy
2017	DC Noir 	Mary Sullivan
2018	Forever My Girl 	Dr. Whitman
2020	Laugh. Love. Karaoke. 	Ruby
2021	Finding You 	Jennifer Sinclair
=== Television ===
Year 	Title 	Role
1986 	American Playhouse 	Kevin's Friend
1986-1987	Loving 	Charlotte "Lotty" Bates Alden
1988 	Spenser: For Hire 	Eileen Kingsley
1989 	CBS Summer Playhouse 	
1989-1990	Wolf 	Melissa Shaw Elliott
1990 	The Young Riders 	
1990 	The Knife and Gun Club 	Dr. Annie Falk
1990 	Fine Things 	Molly
1991 	Switched at Birth 	Barbara Mays
1991 	Murder in High Places 	Meg Faithon
1991 	Lenny 	Megan
1992 	Quantum Leap 	Julie Miller
1992 	Roseanne 	Kerry
1992 	Melrose Place 	Sarah Goldstein
1992 	Murder, She Wrote 	Gretchen Price
1993 	The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.	Iphigenia Poole
1993 	Walker, Texas Ranger 	Lainie Flanders
1993 	Acting on Impulse 	Gail Black
1994 	Dream On 	Pamela
1994 	The Nanny 	Katherine Porter/Kathy Marie O'Malley
1994 	Murder, She Wrote 	Nancy Godfrey
1994 	Mad About You 	Doris
1995 	Sweet Justice 	Cory Shaw
1995 	A Mother's Gift 	Sarah Lutz
1997 	The Burning Zone 	Dr. Meredith Schrager
1997 	Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction 	
1997 	Nash Bridges 	Dr. Gabrielle
1997 	Nothing Sacred 	Judy
1997 	Breast Men 	Valerie
1998 	Pensacola: Wings of Gold 	Maureen Hunt
1998 	Soldier of Fortune, Inc. 	Claire Broderick
1998-2000	The Pretender 	Captain Angela Wiley
1999 	Strange World 	Regina Tyler
1999 	Providence 	Susan Marcus
1999 	Pig in Providence 	Tina Hofmeister
1999 	The X-Files 	Dr. Mindy Rinehart
2000 	Touched by an Angel 	Janet
2001 	Judging Amy 	Bonnie Manning
2002 	Boston Public 	Beth Thomas
2002 	Six Feet Under 	Dawn
2002 	ER 	Mrs. Brenner
2003 	Without a Trace 	Carol Miller
2003 	Crossing Jordan 	Alice Ross
2003 	Carnivàle 	Miss Jolene
2003 	The Guardian 	Ria Lewicki
2004 	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 	Merill Maguire
2004 	Century City 	
2004 	7th Heaven 	Mrs. Johnson
2004 	NYPD Blue 	Paige Matheson
2005 	JAG 	Mildred Evans
2005 	Close to Home 	Terry the Madam
2006 	Commander in Chief 	Syndi Saltzman
2006 	Bones 	Helen Granger
2006 	Still Standing 	Melanie Goldman
2006 	Ghost Whisperer 	Angela Morrison
2006-2011	Big Love 	Cindy Dutton Price
2007 	Grey's Anatomy 	Rhada Douglas
2007 	Notes from the Underbelly 	Mrs. Cole
2007 	Women's Murder Club 	Dr. Raine Van Aiken
2007 	Final Approach 	Marie Gilford
2008 	Swingtown 	Rita Pierce
2008 	Sons of Anarchy 	Karen Oswald
2008 	The Mentalist 	Sandra Boatwright
2009 	The Forgotten 	Charlotte Dent
2010 	CSI: NY 	Mrs. Reynolds
2010 	Private Practice 	Angie McConnell
2010 	Weeds 	Dana
2011 	The Defenders 	Courtney Noland
2011 	Off the Map 	Margie Packard
2011 	In Plain Sight 	Sharon Harris
2011 	Castle 	Mrs. Hamilton
2011 	Grimm 	Mrs. Jessup
2011 	The Craigslist Killer 	Patricia Banks
2012 	Criminal Minds 	Diana Mitchell
2012 	The Middle 	Mrs. Jennings
2012 	Happily Divorced 	Donna
2012 	Sexting in Suburbia 	Patricia Reid
2012-2018	Nashville 	Tandy Hampton
2016-2020	The Magicians 	Stephanie Quinn
Category:Actresses
Category:American Actresses
Category:Halloweentown
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