Person Biography:
Judi Beecher is a multi-award winning international actress, singer-songwriter, and filmmaker. Her career began as a print model and singer in France, Italy, and New York, where she sang alongside the Gipsy Kings in the south of France and performed in Cologne and Barcelona as a chanteuse.
Her first professional acting job was with Woody Allen in "Coop Italia," a string of TV commercials for the Italian market. This fueled her passion to train theatrically in New York City with acting masters such as Uta Hagen, Bill Hickey, Bobby Lewis, and Elaine Stritch at the Stella Adler Conservatory. She also completed a two-year Meisner and movement program before moving out to the west coast to study with acting greats such as Larry Moss and Gordon Hunt.
Judi performed in Off-Broadway original theater productions and starred in numerous SAG independent feature films. She was in Taken 3 with Liam Neeson and Dany Boon's top-grossing film, "La Ch'tite Famille" "Family is Family" produced by Pathé.
On television, Judi was a series regular in the popular French mini-series "La Garçonne", produced by Mother Productions who also produced "Call My Agent". La Garçonne is a 1919 period drama staring Laura Smet where she plays a bi-sexual, wealthy Marlene Dietrich type for France Television. She also recurred on the "Bold and the Beautiful" and "As the World Turns" as well as on "Law and Order," "Jag," "The Shield" and "Once and Again."
Judi is also well known for her voice-over and motion capture work in Sony's highly acclaimed video game, "Heavy Rain," where she performed the popular lead character Madison Paige, as well as on the popular children's anime TV series, "Digimon." In 2013, she was recognized by the magazine, The Complex, as one of the "25 Best Voice Over Performances of All Time."
Judi produced and starred in the Romantic Comedy, "Only in Paris" in which she received Best Actress, Best Romantic Comedy, and Best Short Film at both the New York and Los Angeles Independent Film Festivals in 2011.
