Judi Beecher

Biography

Judi is a multi-award winning International actress with dual nationality and is fluent in English,French and Italian. She is a talented singer-songwriter who writes and performs in three languages. A NY theatrically trained actress, Judi's first professional acting job in America was with Woody Allen in "Coop Italia", a string of TV commercials for the Italian market. She's modeled in France, Italy and New York, has sung in the south of France, next to the Gypsy Kings and appeared in Cologne and Barcelona as a chanteuse. She has performed in more than eleven Off-Broadway original theater productions, starred in numerous SAG independent films. She's had recurring roles on the "Bold and the Beautiful" & "As the World Turns." has co-guest starred on "Law and Order," "Jag," "The Shield" and "Once and Again", starred in dozens of commercials and had a recurring roles in the anime TV series "Digimon". Judi is well known for her work in the highly acclaimed video game for Sony, "Heavy Rain" where she created the popular lead character "Madison Paige" (voice over and motion capture). Nominated Best Supporting Actress at the Saint Tropez International Film Festival, for her work in the feature film "The Warrior and The Savior" and winner of the "Best Actress" award, for her work as nerdy Samantha, in the Romantic Comedy "Only in Paris" at the NY Independent Film Festival, in both New York and Los Angeles. This film, which she also produced, also received Best Romantic Comedy and Best Short Film Awards. Judi's talents were also show-cased when she starred in a short film at the Cannes Film Festival- "Perfect Pitch" which won best film amid tough competition. Judi is a leading lady that is able to transform herself into women of many different cultures and situations, starring in "Tango Shalom" (Lainie Kazan, Renee Taylor, Joe Bologna and Karina Smirnoff) directed by Gabe Bologna, produced by Joel Zwick, Judi plays the role of Raquel the Hassdic wife of Moshe Yehuda, a rabbi that get's a calling to dance the Tango, a psychopathic Mother in "A Cry from Within", a French neighbor in "Larchmont", a Detective with a proclivity for bondage, opposite "Pruitt Taylor Vince" in "Cameraman", a mother who buys children on the black market, in "The Warrior and the Savior" and a trophy wife, stranded in the dessert ,in "Four Weeks, Four Hours". On the other side of the camera, Judi most recently put her creativity and quirkiness on the line as she directed and produced "The Can Cannes", "The Gourmet Dinner" which screened at the "No Dance Film Festival" at Sundance, As a result of trying to find the "right" sound track for the film, "Only in Paris", Judi became a singer/song-writer, composing and performing all the music in the film. Her New York training includes acting masters as Uta Hagen, Bill Hickey, Bobby Lewis, Elaine Strich, (Master class), Stella Adler Conservatory and Kathryn Gately: 2yr Meisner program. In Los Angeles, she has studied with Larry Moss and Gordon Hunt. Today she works between New York, Los Angeles and Paris