Australian film, television, and stage actress (born 1955)
Judy Davis
Davis in 2012
Born
Judith Davis
(1955-04-23) 23 April 1955 (age 69)
Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Education
Curtin University National Institute of Dramatic Art (BFA)
Occupation
Actress
Years active
1977–present
Works
Full list
Spouse
Colin Friels
(m. 1984)
Children
2
Awards
Full list
Judith Davis (born 23 April 1955) is an Australian actress. In a career spanning over four decades of both screen and stage, she has been commended for her versatility and regarded as one of the finest actresses of her generation. Frequent collaborator Woody Allen described her as "one of the most exciting actresses in the world".[1] Davis has received numerous accolades, including nine AACTA Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards.
After graduating from the National Institute of Dramatic Art, she began her career on the stage and had her film debut in 1977. She rose to international attention with her leading role in the period drama film My Brilliant Career (1979), winning two BAFTA Awards. This led to starring roles in Hollywood projects, receiving her first Emmy nomination for the docudrama A Woman Called Golda (1982). She received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress for starring in the historical film A Passage to India (1984) and Best Supporting Actress for Allen's comedy-drama Husbands and Wives (1992).
Davis won three Primetime Emmy Awards for starring in the television film Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995), and the miniseries Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001) and The Starter Wife (2007). Her subsequent films include Children of the Revolution (1996), Celebrity (1998), Marie Antoinette (2006), The Eye of the Storm (2011), To Rome with Love (2012), The Dressmaker (2015), and Nitram (2021).
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Peter Biskind (25 August 2016). Gods and Monsters: Thirty Years of Writing on Film and Culture. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781408882160.
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Powers, John (3 December 2009). "Judy Davis, Inspiring 'Brilliant Career's 30 Years Later [sic]". NPR.org. NPR. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
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McArdle in Rainbow (1978), Tammy Blanchard (young Judy) and JudyDavis (older Judy) in Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001), and Sigrid Thornton...
directed by Woody Allen. The film stars Allen, Mia Farrow, Sydney Pollack, JudyDavis, Lysette Anthony, Juliette Lewis, Liam Neeson and Blythe Danner. The film...
Arthur massacre in Tasmania. The film stars Caleb Landry Jones, JudyDavis, Essie Davis and Anthony LaPaglia. Nitram premiered at the Cannes Film Festival...
Bill Nighy, Rachel Weisz, Michael Gambon, Tom Hughes, Ralph Fiennes, and JudyDavis. The film was followed by Turks & Caicos (2014) and Salting the Battlefield...
in a released film was in Hoodwink (1981), alongside his future wife, JudyDavis. In 1986, he played the title role in Malcolm, about a shy mechanical...
American crime comedy film directed by Ted Demme, starring Denis Leary, JudyDavis, Kevin Spacey and Glynis Johns. On Christmas Eve in an affluent Connecticut...
at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, where he starred opposite JudyDavis in a production of Romeo and Juliet. During the 1980s, he founded Icon...
by George Sluizer, written by Jim Barton, and starring River Phoenix, JudyDavis, and Jonathan Pryce. The film was not completed due to the death of Phoenix...
supporting role in the television movie One Against the Wind starring JudyDavis and Sam Neill. The following year, she starred in the Blade Runner-inspired...
star in before her death. It also features Ned Beatty, Franklin Cover, JudyDavis, Anne Jackson, Robert Loggia, Leonard Nimoy, and Jack Thompson. A Woman...
directors trained at NIDA, including Cate Blanchett, Sarah Snook, Mel Gibson, JudyDavis and Baz Luhrmann. NIDA's main campus is based in the Sydney suburb of...
Rafelson and starring Jack Nicholson, Stephen Dorff, Jennifer Lopez, JudyDavis, and Michael Caine. The screenplay was written by Nick Villiers and Alison...
wise-cracking kid brother on the popular 1940s teen sitcom, A Date With Judy. Davis later served as an intelligence analyst with the United States Information...
miniseries titled Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows. It stars JudyDavis as the adult Judy, Tammy Blanchard as the teenage Judy, Hugh Laurie as Vincente...
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