Judith Chapman (born Judith Shepard on November 15, 1951) is an
American actress, best known for soap opera roles, particularly as
Natalie Bannon Hughes in As the World Turns, Charlotte Greer on Ryan's
Hope, Ginny Blake Webber on General Hospital, Sandra Montaigne on One
Life to Live, Anjelica Deveraux Curtis on Days of Our Lives, and
Gloria Abbott Bardwell on The Young and the Restless.Chapman was born
in Greenville, South Carolina. She is the daughter of retired United
States Air Force brigadier general Leland C. Shepard Jr.. Her older
sister Patty Shepard (born 1945) also worked as an actress. She
debuted at the age of 16 in the Spaghetti Western Sette donne per i
MacGregor. In 1977 she tested for the role of Pam Ewing on CBS
primetime soap opera, Dallas.Chapman has appeared on several daytime
dramas since the mid-1970s. Her first soap role was scheming Natalie
Bannon (one of Tom Hughes' wives) on As the World Turns from
1975-1978. A four-month stint as the mysterious Charlotte Greer on
Ryan's Hope in 1983 brought her critical acclaim. Her role had her
character as part of a revenge plot against the Ryan family after
lying to the press that she was Frank Ryan's ex-wife. She joined the
cast of General Hospital the following year as the devious Ginny Blake
who was the biological mother of Mike Webber, adopted by Rick and
Lesley. After Lesley's "death", Rick and Ginny married in an attempt
to share custody and fell in love after Ginny was found to be the
killer of D.L. Brock. After that stint ended, she had a brief role on
One Life to Live as Sandra Montaigne, a con-artist out to scam
ex-boyfriend Jonathan Russell. She was the third former General
Hospital actress to play the role of Anjelica Devereaux Curtis on Days
of Our Lives, playing that part from 1989-1990 and briefly in 1991.She
made her first appearance on The Young and the Restless after that,
briefly subbing for Jess Walton as Jill Abbott. She joined the cast of
The Young and the Restless full-time in January 2005, replacing Joan
Van Ark in the contract role of Gloria Fisher. In March 2011, it was
announced that Chapman had been taken off her contract and bumped to
recurring. In October 2014, it was announced that she would make a
guest appearance as Gloria on The Bold and the Beautiful. She appeared
in a few more episodes of The Young and the Restless in 2015 and 2016.
She played Diana Cooper on Days of Our Lives for two months in 2019,
then returned to Y&R.
American actress, best known for soap opera roles, particularly as
Natalie Bannon Hughes in As the World Turns, Charlotte Greer on Ryan's
Hope, Ginny Blake Webber on General Hospital, Sandra Montaigne on One
Life to Live, Anjelica Deveraux Curtis on Days of Our Lives, and
Gloria Abbott Bardwell on The Young and the Restless.Chapman was born
in Greenville, South Carolina. She is the daughter of retired United
States Air Force brigadier general Leland C. Shepard Jr.. Her older
sister Patty Shepard (born 1945) also worked as an actress. She
debuted at the age of 16 in the Spaghetti Western Sette donne per i
MacGregor. In 1977 she tested for the role of Pam Ewing on CBS
primetime soap opera, Dallas.Chapman has appeared on several daytime
dramas since the mid-1970s. Her first soap role was scheming Natalie
Bannon (one of Tom Hughes' wives) on As the World Turns from
1975-1978. A four-month stint as the mysterious Charlotte Greer on
Ryan's Hope in 1983 brought her critical acclaim. Her role had her
character as part of a revenge plot against the Ryan family after
lying to the press that she was Frank Ryan's ex-wife. She joined the
cast of General Hospital the following year as the devious Ginny Blake
who was the biological mother of Mike Webber, adopted by Rick and
Lesley. After Lesley's "death", Rick and Ginny married in an attempt
to share custody and fell in love after Ginny was found to be the
killer of D.L. Brock. After that stint ended, she had a brief role on
One Life to Live as Sandra Montaigne, a con-artist out to scam
ex-boyfriend Jonathan Russell. She was the third former General
Hospital actress to play the role of Anjelica Devereaux Curtis on Days
of Our Lives, playing that part from 1989-1990 and briefly in 1991.She
made her first appearance on The Young and the Restless after that,
briefly subbing for Jess Walton as Jill Abbott. She joined the cast of
The Young and the Restless full-time in January 2005, replacing Joan
Van Ark in the contract role of Gloria Fisher. In March 2011, it was
announced that Chapman had been taken off her contract and bumped to
recurring. In October 2014, it was announced that she would make a
guest appearance as Gloria on The Bold and the Beautiful. She appeared
in a few more episodes of The Young and the Restless in 2015 and 2016.
She played Diana Cooper on Days of Our Lives for two months in 2019,
then returned to Y&R.
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