She shot to fame shortly after when she was cast as Beth Raines on Guiding Light, for which she won a Daytime Emmy Award at the age of 19.
In 1986, she left Guiding Light and immediately joined the cast of Days of Our Lives as Adrienne Johnson Kiriakis.
Judi Evans is a professional "soap-hopper" with multiple, successful appearances on four Daytime Soap Operas.
After the conclusion of Another World in 1999, Evans moved back to Los Angeles to begin recurring again on Days of Our Lives, this time taking on double duty as Bonnie Lockhart and Adrienne Johnson-Kiriakis.
[2] In 2020, nearly six months after losing her son, Evans contracted COVID-19 while at the hospital recovering from an accidental injury she incurred during horseback riding.
Doctors considered amputating both her legs as part of her treatment, but she, luckily, made a full recovery.