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As the nurse who cares for Novalee at the hospital following her less-than-immaculate experience at Walmart, Judd’s single mom Lexie Coop keeps getting tangled up with losers but encourages Novalee to set her standards high.
Judd was around the top of her movie star game, having had a run in the 1990s that included Heat, Norma Jean & Marilyn (as pre-movie-stardom Norma Jean Baker), A Time to Kill, Kiss the Girls and Double Jeopardy, and after 2000 continued with Frida, High Crimes, Bug, De-Lovely and more. In the meantime she married Scottish IndyCar driver Dario Franchitti, but they divorced in 2013.
In October 2017, Judd was the first famous name to go on the record and be identified in the New York Times piece that blew the lid off of decades’ worth of sexual misconduct allegations against producer Harvey Weinstein. She has since become a face of the #MeToo movement and Time’s Up, and when Weinstein was convicted in February 2020 of third-degree rape and criminal sexual acts in the first degree, Judd tweeted, “For the women who testified in this case, and walked through traumatic hell, you did a public service to girls and women everywhere, thank you.”
Most recenlty, Judd starred in the 2019 movie A Dog’s Way Home and she was in the Twin Peaks reboot on Showtime and the Epix spy drama Berlin Station.