Judy Davis

Gender: Female
Born: 23rd April 1955 (currently 57 years old)
Nationality: Australia
TV programs: The Starter Wife, Diamonds (US), Masters of Science Fiction, The Starter Wife
Movies: A Passage to India, Absolute Power, Barton Fink, Celebrity, Deconstructing Harry, Husbands and Wives, Impromptu, Naked Lunch, The Ref, Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Man Who Sued God, Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows, A Woman Called Golda, Who Dares Wins, Marie Antoinette, Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story, Echo of Thunder, Coast to Coast, Alice, Blood and Wine, A Little Thing Called Murder, Swimming Upstream, Children of the Revolution, My Brilliant Career, Gaudi Afternoon, The Reagans, Kangaroo, High Tide, Heatwave, Dark Blood, Winter of Our Dreams, The Break-Up, On My Own, Georgia, Diamonds (US), The Merry Wives of Windsor, Dash and Lilly, High Rolling in a Hot Corvette, The Eye of the Storm, A Cooler Climate, The New Age, To Rome with Love, Hoodwink, High Rolling, Diamonds, Page Eight

Judy Davis (born 23 April 1955) is an Australian actress best known for her roles in Husbands and Wives, Barton Fink, A Passage to India and in the TV miniseries Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows.

Davis first came to attention for her role as the fiery Sybylla Melvyn in the 1979 film My Brilliant Career. She has won many acting awards, including two Golden Globe Awards, three Emmy Awards, one BAFTA and seven AFI Awards. She has also been nominated twice for an Academy Award.

Davis was born in Perth and had a strict Catholic upbringing. She was educated at Loreto Convent and the Western Australian Institute of Technology, and graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1977. She has been married to actor and fellow NIDA graduate Colin Friels since 1984. They have two children.

First coming to prominence for her role as Sybylla Melvyn in the coming-of-age saga My Brilliant Career (1979), for which she won BAFTA Awards for Best Actress and Best Newcomer, she also played the lead in such Australian New Wave classics as Winter of Our Dreams (1981) (as the waif-like heroin addict) and Heatwave (1982) (as the radical tenant organizer).

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