Judith Hoag

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Judith Hoag (born June 29 1968) is an American actress and acting teacher. She is perhaps best known for portraying April O'Neil in the first "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" film. She has also co-starred in the Disney Channel Original Movie (DCOM) "Halloweentown" films.

Biography

Early life

Hoag was born Newburyport, Massachusetts. She started doing theater at a small theater in her hometown. She was only 13 when she started skipping school to go hang out at the theater, and was subsequently enrolled in a private Performing Arts High School in Natick, Massachusetts, called Walnut Hill School of Performing Arts.

Career

Hoag moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she became involved in local theater, and later to New York, where about a month after her arrival she was approached by a playwright about doing his new play "The Times & Appetites of Toulouse Lautrec". Shortly thereafter she was offered the part of Lotty Bates on the soap opera "Loving".

Her contract ended after a year and a half. Next she decided to try commercials. That proved to be a successful endeavor. She has since done dozens of commercials. She then acted in her first film, "A Matter of Degrees", which also starred Tom Sizemore and Arye Gross. Her next film was "Cadillac Man" in which she co-starred with Robin Williams and Tim Robbins. It was during this time that she read for the movie "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles". She began working bi-coastally around this time and finally the work in Los Angeles outweighed the work in New York so she and her husband, actor Vince Grant, moved west.

Hoag began to shoot a series of television pilots. One of her favorite parts was on the "X-Files", where she was nearly devoured by a cannibalistic mutant. Her most recent work includes the Disney Channel Halloweentown series, where she plays part-time witch, full-time mom Gwen Piper, who helps fight forces of evil. She worked on the American pilot of "Wild at Heart" with British singer Calvin Goldspink. However in June 2007 her part was re-cast, and she will no longer be part of the show or the CW.

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