27 Facts About Judy Davis

Judith Davis was born on 23 April 1955 and is an Australian actress in film, television, and on stage.

Judy Davis is the most awarded recipient for the AACTA Award with nine accolades and has received numerous accolades, including three Emmy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards, and two nominations for Academy Awards.

Judy Davis is a 1977 graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art, where she starred opposite Mel Gibson in Romeo and Juliet.

Judy Davis earned a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress nomination for the 1982 London production of Insignificance.

Judy Davis returned to the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 2017 to direct the play Love and Money.

Judy Davis has won BAFTA Awards for both Best Actress and Most Promising Newcomer for the film My Brilliant Career, two Australian Film Institute Awards as Best Actress for Winter of Our Dreams and Supporting Actress for Hoodwink, and later received Academy Award nominations for A Passage to India and Husbands and Wives.

Judy Davis was born in Perth, Western Australia in the suburb of Floreat Park and had a strict Catholic upbringing.

Judy Davis was educated at Loreto Convent and the Western Australian Institute of Technology and graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Sydney, Australia in 1977.

Judy Davis has been married to actor and fellow NIDA graduate Colin Friels since 1984; they have two children, son Jack and daughter Charlotte.

Judy Davis then played a terrorist in the British film Who Dares Wins.

Judy Davis returned to Australian cinema for her next two films, Kangaroo, as a German-born writer's wife, and High Tide, as a foot-loose mother attempting to reunite with her teenage daughter who is being raised by the paternal grandmother.

The film's emotional suggestiveness makes it almost a primal woman's picture: Judy Davis has been compared with Jeanne Moreau, and that's apt, but she's Moreau without the cultural swank, the high-fashion gloss.

Judy Davis had a cameo in Woody Allen's Alice, her first appearance in an Allen-directed film.

Sand, who's the locus of this blissfully high-spirited romp about the circle of writers and musicians in 1830s Paris, never does anything halfway; her life is an experiment in full-throttle, passionate immersion, and that's why Judy Davis is the ideal actress for the part.

Husbands and Wives was well received, and Judy Davis's performance drew high praise.

Judy Davis next co-starred with Kevin Spacey in the comedy film The Ref, portraying a married couple whose relationship is on the rocks, with Denis Leary playing a thief who counsels their marriage.

Judy Davis won her first Emmy for portraying the woman who gently coaxes a rigid military woman, Glenn Close, out of the closet in Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story, with subsequent nominations for her repressed Australian outback mother in The Echo of Thunder, her portrayal of Lillian Hellman in Dash and Lilly and her frigid society matron in A Cooler Climate.

Judy Davis appeared as Jill Tankard in a television drama film, Page Eight, for which she was nominated for an Emmy.

Judy Davis played Dorothy de Lascabanes in The Eye of the Storm, an adaptation of Patrick White's novel of the same title, for which she won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

Judy Davis had a major role as Woody Allen's psychiatrist wife in his To Rome with Love.

Judy Davis reprised her role of Jill Tankard in Salting the Battlefield and costarred with Kate Winslet in The Dressmaker, for which she won an AACTA Award for Best Supporting Actress.

In 2017, Judy Davis received a Primetime Emmy nomination for her supporting performance as gossip columnist Hedda Hopper in Ryan Murphy's anthology television series Feud.

Judy Davis is so firmly identified in the American mind with intense, often neurotic city-dwelling characters that it takes an episode or two to get used to her climbing in and out of a police car in the dusty, empty landscapes, wearing a baggy blue uniform that swallows her tiny frame.

Judy Davis played both Cordelia and the Fool in a 1984 staging of King Lear by the Nimrod Theatre Company, and starred in its productions of Strindberg's Miss Julie, Chekhov's The Bear, Louis Nowra's Inside The Island and, in 1986, the title role of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler for the Sydney Theatre Company.

Judy Davis created the role of The Actress in Terry Johnson's Insignificance at the Royal Court in London, receiving an Olivier Award nomination, and appeared in a brief 1989 Los Angeles production of Tom Stoppard's Hapgood.

Judy Davis has received numerous accolades including nine AACTA Awards, two BAFTA Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, an Independent Spirit Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

Judy Davis received nominations for two Academy Awards and a Laurence Olivier Award.