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Judy Davis
Judith Davis is an Australian actress. Regarded as one of the finest actresses of her generation, she is known for her work across both screen and stage, often in roles of brittle, neurotic women in independent media. Her accolades include a record nine AACTA Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards and two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for two Academy…
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entertainment · Australian film, television, and stage actress (born 1955) · actor · stage actor · film actor · also Judy Davis, Judith Davis, Davis
Born 23 April 1955 · Q307882
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2026· 4 entries
The Guardian: The Office actor Lucy Davis says she has incurable stage four breast cancer
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The Guardian: Holy Days review – even Miriam Margolyes, Jacki Weaver and Judy Davis as nuns can’t save this film
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2020· 1 entry
Reunited with Ryan Murphy portraying Betsy Bucket in the drama series Ratched
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2017· 1 entry
Davis received a Primetime Emmy nomination for her supporting performance as gossip columnist Hedda Hopper in Ryan Murphy's anthology television series Feud
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2016· 1 entry
The Guardian: Faith Healer review – Judy Davis directs Colin Friels in near-perfect production
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2014· 1 entry
Commented that Davis gave "a rousing performance as bull-headed protagonist Sybylla Melvyn
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2013· 1 entry
The Guardian: Judy Davis: 'I never wanted celebrity'
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2011· 1 entry
Portrayed the role of fading actress Irina Arkadina in Anton Chekhov's The Seagull at Sydney's Belvoir St Theatre
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2008· 1 entry
The Guardian: Roy Greenslade on Australian damages award to Judy Davis
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2007· 2 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for The Starter Wife (2007).
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For Outstanding Supporting Actress in the U
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2004· 2 entries
Starred in and co-directed Howard Barker's play Victory, as a Puritan woman determined to locate her husband's dismembered corpse
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Co-starred with Richard Dreyfuss in Coast to Coast
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2003· 1 entry
Earned another Emmy nomination for her interpretation of Nancy Reagan in the controversial biopic The Reagans
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2001· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001).
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995).
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1993· 1 entry
Davis filmed Dark Blood with River Phoenix; it would be his last acting role before his death by drug overdose that year
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1986· 1 entry
The title role of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler for the Sydney Theatre Company
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1980· 1 entry
Portrayed French chanteuse Edith Piaf in Stephen Barry's production of the Pam Gems play Piaf at the Perth Playhouse
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1978· 1 entry
Appeared in Visions by Louis Nowra at the Paris Theatre Company in Sydney
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1955· 1 entry
Born 1955-04-23.
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