---
name: "Judy Cairo"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/judy-cairo"
fi1m_id: "judy-cairo"
imdb_id: "nm0003437"
tmdb_id: 1024835
wikidata_id: "Q106353558"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "11 May 1959"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-01T20:39:53.708394+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Judy Cairo

## Identity

Judy Cairo

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/judy-cairo
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** judy-cairo
- **IMDb ID:** nm0003437
- **TMDB ID:** 1024835
- **Wikidata ID:** Q106353558
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106353558, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003437/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1024835

Producer. Born 11 May 1959 in Forest City, North Carolina, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 11 May 1959, Forest City, North Carolina, USA
- **Also known as:** Judy Cairo-Simpson, Judy Woody Cairo
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106353558, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003437/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1024835

## Biography

Judy Cairo is an American film and television producer. She holds a B.A. in radio, television and motion pictures and religious studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From 1983 to 1993 she was executive producer of local programming at WSB-TV in Atlanta, where she produced documentaries and won 15 Regional Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award.

Since 1994 she has been a partner and producer at Cairo Simpson Entertainment and Informant Media in Los Angeles. Her feature credits include *Crazy Heart* (2009), *Hysteria* (2011), *Stuck in Love* (2013), *Boychoir* (2015), *Kidnapping Mr. Heineken* (2015), *Dirty Dancing* (2017) and *Candy Jar* (2018). She has also produced numerous television films.

Cairo is a professor of film and television at the Savannah College of Art and Design.

*Sources: scad.edu, en.wikipedia.org, metacritic.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Crazy Heart* (2009), Fi1m 71, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/crazy-heart.md)

## Complete filmography (26)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Pretenders* (2019), Producer
- *Candy Jar* (2018), Producer
- *Dirty Dancing* (2017), Producer
- *Boychoir* (2015), Producer
- *Kidnapping Mr. Heineken* (2015), Producer
- *Stuck in Love* (2013), Producer
- *Erased* (2012), Executive Producer
- *Hysteria* (2011), Producer
- *Crazy Heart* (2009), Producer — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/crazy-heart.md)
- *Queen Sized* (2008), Producer
- *The Staircase Murders* (2007), Producer
- *A Perfect Day* (2006), Producer
- *Mayday* (2005), Producer
- *Elvis* (2005), series, Producer
- *Infidelity* (2004), Executive Producer
- *Lucky 7* (2003), Producer
- *Student Seduction* (2003), Producer
- *The Pilot's Wife* (2002), Producer
- *Sex, Lies & Obsession* (2001), Producer
- *The Price of a Broken Heart* (1999), Executive Producer
- *What We Did That Night* (1999), Producer
- *Perfect Body* (1997), Producer
- *Twisted Desire* (1996), Producer
- *Her Deadly Rival* (1995), Producer
- *The Upside of Falling Down*, Producer
- *Siamese Dream*, Producer

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