A little, but she's been an extreme victim of typecasting.

Marilyn Milian, the longest-serving judge in the long-running court show, joined "The People's Court" in 2001.

The following year, perhaps to promote the news that she'd stepped into the big gown, she took her first of two acting roles, as a judge in "As the World Turns." Later, in 2007, she played to her strengths again, playing Judge Alvarez in two episodes of "George Lopez."

To Milian's credit, it's a role she knows well. Like previous "People's Court" judges, Milian was a real, off-screen judge prior to playing one on TV. (Though the cases she tries are real, what viewers of "The People's Court" see is actually an arbitration proceeding rather than a legal trial.)

While a bit of a reluctant celebrity at the beginning, showbiz eventually won her over: "I never, ever thought I'd be doing this when I first started out," she told the New York Post in 2005, "but I really love it."

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