Who is Judy Davis?
Judy Davis is an Australian actor, born in Perth in 1955, known for intense performances in films such as My Brilliant Career and A Passage to India. She has received two Academy Award nominations.
Davis trained at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, where Mel Gibson was a classmate. Her film breakthrough came in 1979 with My Brilliant Career, playing the independent Sybylla Melvyn, which won her BAFTA awards.
She received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress for A Passage to India in 1984, directed by David Lean, and another for Best Supporting Actress for Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives in 1992.
Television and stage
Davis has won several Emmy Awards for television roles, including playing Judy Garland in Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows. She also played gossip columnist Hedda Hopper in the series Feud: Bette and Joan.
Her other films include Barton Fink, Naked Lunch and The Dressmaker, in which she played the cranky mother of Kate Winslet's character.
Davis is known for her privacy and her reluctance to do publicity. She is married to actor Colin Friels.
Did You Know?
My Brilliant Career was directed by Gillian Armstrong, one of the leading figures of the Australian New Wave.