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.
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,...
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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.
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.
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...
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