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