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- In addition to her other achievements, she 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.- IMDb Mini Biography By: AkiCork
- SpouseSteve Shaffer(December 1974 - 1980) (divorced)
- ParentsGalen 'Buzz' HoudyshellLouella Taylor Houdyshell
- RelativesSibling(Sibling)
- 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.
- Graduate of the Academy of Dramatic Art in Rochester, Michigan. Other alumni include Curtis Armstrong, Robert Englund and Richard Riehle.
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