Judy Lewis

Judy Lewis was born and raised in Los Angeles, the child of actors Loretta Young and Clark Gable. At the time of her birth, Gable was married, and Young was unmarried. Young concealed her pregnancy, later claiming she had adopted the girl. Judy graduated from Marymount High School in 1953. She moved to New York and began her acting career, securing a small role on *Kraft Television Theatre* (1953). She appeared on Broadway in Jean Kerr's *Mary, Mary*, and became a featured performer on several daytime series, including *The Secret Storm* (1954) and *General Hospital* (1963). Judy also had a successful career behind the camera. She produced the daytime soap *Texas* (1980) and won a Writer's Guild award for her work on *Search for Tomorrow* (1951). In the 1980s, she earned a bachelor's degree and then a master's degree in clinical psychology at Antioch University, Los Angeles. She took a few years off to write. Her first book, the autobiographical *Uncommon Knowledge*, about her parents' affair and her childhood, made her an acclaimed author. She began working in the field she had long been interested in: psychology. She received her marriage and family–child counseling license (M.F.C.C.) in the early 1990s. She now uses her talent, her love of introspection, and her awareness of spirituality to help others. She has one daughter, Maria, and two grandsons, Michael and Gregory.