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Judy Davis

Judy Davis

Highest Rated: 93% Nitram (2021)

Lowest Rated: 29% Gaudi Afternoon (2001)

Birthday: Apr 23, 1955

Birthplace: Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Judy Davis found her passion for acting as she grew up in Australia and attended the National Institute of Dramatic Art. Graduating the Sydney school in 1977, she started to work in Australian cinema, earning plaudits for her role in "My Brilliant Career" (1979), which netted her a BAFTA Award. Heralded as a promising young actress in her home country, Davis began her international march to stardom with her Emmy-nominated turn in "A Woman Named Golda" (1982). Shortly after, she garnered even more international prestige as her performance in David Lean's "A Passage to India" (1984) was nominated for Best Actress at the Academy Awards. For the rest of 1980s, she mostly worked in Australia before working with auteurs in the early '90s. She drew critical acclaim for her work in the Coen Brothers' "Barton Fink" (1991), David Cronenberg's "Naked Lunch" (1991), and Woody Allen's "Husbands and Wives" (1992), including another Oscar nomination for her work in the latter. Outside of film, Davis was also prolific on television, drawing Golden Globe and Emmy attention for her work in a variety of made-for-TV movies and mini-series, including "Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story" (1995), "Dash and Lilly" (1999), and perhaps most famously, "Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows" (2001), in which she played the legendary actress. By the early 2000s, Davis' pace slowed down, but she still appeared in TV mini-series such as "The Reagans" (Showtime 2003) and even popped up in films such as "The Break-Up" (2006) and "Marie Antoinette" (2006). She netted Emmy notoriety for "The Starter Wife" (USA 2007) and "Feud: Bette and Joan" (FX 2017).

Highest rated movies

93% 78% Nitram
93% 64% Page Eight
93% 87% Husbands and Wives
93% 83% High Tide
90% 89% Barton Fink
86% 67% My Brilliant Career
80% 62% Dark Blood
79% 72% Children of the Revolution

Filmography

Movies

Credit
93% 78% Nitram Mum (Character) - 2021
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hanging Millstone Board Member (Character) - 2019
59% 66% The Dressmaker Molly Dunnage (Character) $2.0M 2015
No Score Yet 50% Salting the Battlefield Jill Tankard (Character) - 2014
78% 70% The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet Jibsen (Character) $176.1K 2013
47% 40% To Rome With Love Phyllis (Character) $16.7M 2012
80% 62% Dark Blood Buffy Fletcher (Character) - 2012
61% 46% The Eye of the Storm Dorothy de Lascabanes (Character) $67.0K 2011
93% 64% Page Eight Jill Tankard (Character) - 2011
No Score Yet No Score Yet Diamonds Unknown (Character) - 2009
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mask and Memory: Sidney Nolan Narrator - 2009
No Score Yet 36% A Little Thing Called Murder Sante Kimes (Character) - 2006
58% 56% Marie Antoinette Comtesse de Noailles (Character) $16.0M 2006
34% 46% The Break-Up Marilyn Dean (Character) $118.7M 2006
No Score Yet 21% Coast to Coast Maxine Pierce (Character) - 2004
61% 80% Swimming Upstream Dora Fingleton (Character) $47.2K 2003
71% 59% The Man Who Sued God Anna Redmond (Character) - 2001
29% 47% Gaudi Afternoon Cassandra (Character) - 2001
No Score Yet 86% Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows Unknown (Character) - 2001
No Score Yet 67% Dash and Lilly Lillian Hellman (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet 45% A Cooler Climate Paula (Character) - 1999
42% 42% Celebrity Robin Simon (Character) $5.0M 1998
No Score Yet 75% The Echo of Thunder Gladwyn Ritchie (Character) - 1998
56% 52% Absolute Power Gloria Russell (Character) $50.0M 1997
73% 82% Deconstructing Harry Lucy (Character) $10.7M 1997
63% 36% Blood and Wine Suzanne (Character) $1.1M 1996
79% 72% Children of the Revolution Joan (Character) $830.6K 1996
No Score Yet 71% Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story Diane (Character) - 1995
67% 38% The New Age Katherine Witner (Character) $203.6K 1994
74% 73% The Ref Caroline Chasseur (Character) $11.3M 1994
93% 87% Husbands and Wives Sally (Character) $9.3M 1992
No Score Yet No Score Yet On My Own The Mother (Character) - 1992
72% 77% Naked Lunch Joan Frost/Joan Lee (Character) $2.2M 1991
64% 52% Where Angels Fear to Tread Harriet Herriton (Character) $1.4M 1991
90% 89% Barton Fink Audrey Taylor (Character) $5.7M 1991
74% 71% Impromptu George Sand/Aurora (Character) $128.6K 1991
No Score Yet 86% One Against the Wind Countess Mary Lindell (Character) - 1991
71% 57% Alice Vicki (Character) $6.8M 1990
No Score Yet No Score Yet Georgia Nina Bailey (Character) - 1988
93% 83% High Tide Lillie (Character) $15.1K 1987
No Score Yet 50% Kangaroo Harriet Somers (Character) - 1986
77% 79% A Passage to India Adela (Character) - 1984
No Score Yet 38% Heatwave Kate Dean (Character) - 1982
No Score Yet 71% The Final Option Frankie Leith (Character) - 1982
No Score Yet 17% The Winter of Our Dreams Lou (Character) - 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hoodwink Sarah (Character) - 1981
86% 67% My Brilliant Career Sybylla Melvyn (Character) - 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet High Rolling Lynn (Character) - 1977
No Score Yet 29% High Rolling in a Hot Corvette Lynn (Character) - 1977

TV

Credit
86% 79% Feud Hedda Hopper (Character) 2017 2024
62% 69% Ratched Nurse Betsy Bucket (Character) 2020
100% 75% Mystery Road Emma James (Character) 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Starter Wife Joan McAllister (Character) 2008
No Score Yet No Score Yet Stephen Hawking's Sci Fi Masters Deanna (Character) 2007
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Starter Wife Joan McAllister (Character) 2007
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Reagans Nancy Reagan (Character) 2003