Career
She began her soap career in 1966 by creating the role of Lenore Moore on Another World, a role she played until 1971. In 1970, she made a cameo appearance as Lenore on the AW spin-off, Somerset. After leaving Another World, she took over the role of Ann Tyler on All My Children.
After Ann gave birth to a baby who died suddenly, she underwent a mental breakdown, forcing Paul and Phoebe to have to commit her to a mental hospital.
She played the role for six years, leaving All My Children in 1977. The following year, she appeared on The Edge of Night, playing Louise Cavanaugh (Miles and April"s mother in dream sequences) for a few episodes.
That same year, she stepped in for Marie Masters in the role of Doctor Susan Burke Stewart on As the World Turns while Masters was on emergency leave. lieutenant was at this time that Barcroft took a three-year hiatus from acting, returning to daytime in 1981 on Ryan"s Hope in the role of Barbara Wilde, a fictional soap actress desperate for publicity.
Barbara briefly dated Seneca Beaulac but sued him for malpractice after blaming him for going forward with a medical procedure that threatened to destroy her career.
In 1983, she returned to As the World Turns for a brief stint as Doctorate.A. Sara Comstock, which she repeated the following year. She then returned to The Edge of Night in a completely different role, playing Laurie Karr"s psychiatrist, Eleanor Prentice, until the show was canceled in the winter of 1984. In 1987, the producers of One Life to Live asked her to temporarily fill in for Erika Slezak as Victoria Lord Buchanan.
Her final appearance on soap operas was in 1988, playing a pharmacist for one day on Another World.
Judith has been married to soap opera writer Wisner Washam since June 15, 1969. Her Broadway credits are: "Mating Dance", "Dinner At Eight", "Plaza Suite", "All God"s Chillun Got Wings", "Elephant Manitoba", "Betrayal", & "Shimada".
