Bio
Judy Davis is an Australian actress known for her roles in films such as A Passage to India, Naked Lunch and Deconstructing Harry; and for her Emmy-winning role as Joan McAllister in the 2007 mini-series The Starter Wife and its spin-off series of the same name, in 2008.
Davis trained for the stage at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney.
Upon graduation, she drew wide acclaim for her mature portrayal of the defiant heroine in Gillian Armstrong's 1978 classic My Brilliant Career. For her performance she received the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award for Best Actress.
In 1984, Davis received a Best Actress Academy Award nomination for her role as the enigmatic Adela Quested in A Passage To India, and again in 1992 for her performance as Sally in Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives.
Davis has worked with Allen several times, starring as Lucy in Deconstructing Harry, Robin Simon in Celebrity and Vicki in Alice.
Davis's other film credits include: Clint Eastwood's Absolute Power; the Coen Brothers cult hit Barton Fink; Naked Lunch, which was inspired by beat writer William S. Burroughs; Impromptu, with Hugh Grant; Gillian Armstrong's High Tide; Children Of The Revolution, opposite Sam Neill; the 1992 comedy The Ref, with Kevin Spacey and Denis Leary; the D. H. Lawrence adaptation Kangaroo; the E. M. Forster adaptation Where Angels Fear To Tread and her Emmy-nominated performance in Showtime's A Cooler Climate.
Theatre credits include Hedda Gabler for the Sydney Theatre Company and Insignificance for London's Royal Court Theatre.
Television credits for Davis include her Golden Globe and Emmy Award winning performance in Life With Judy Garland: Me And My Shadows and One Against The Wind.
Additional TV roles include Dash & Lily, for which she received an Emmy Award nomination, and Serving In Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story, for which she received both an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe nomination.
Davis also starred as Sante Kimes in A Little Thing Called Murder, for which she received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie.