Judy Wilson is an American casting director known for her work on soap operas. Between 1981 and 1987 she was casting director of Ryan's Hope. In 1988, she started work on One Life to Live until she was moved to All My Children in 1991 till the soap's end in 2011. Later that year she became the casting director of The Young and the Restless.
Wilson has won three consecutive Daytime Emmy Awards for "Outstanding Achievement in Casting for a Drama Series" for her work with All My Children. She has been responsible for casting some of the most popular names in that show's history, including a young Sarah Michelle Gellar as Kendall Hart in 1993.
Wilson has won 6 Arios Awards from the Casting Society of America.
In 2005 she was the casting director of the short film Exit in which she cast actors from her previous soaps, Kassie DePaiva, who plays Blair on One Life to Live, and Jack Scalia, who played Christopher Stamp on All My Children.
She is the sister of actress Maggie Blye.
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