List of Judy Davis performances

Judy Davis filmography

Judy Davis in 2012
Film	34
Television series	21

The film career of Judy Davis spans over four decades and includes credits in both film and television. Davis first garnered acclaim for her performance in the period drama My Brilliant Career (1979), which earned her two BAFTA Awards. She garnered international attention for her performance in A Passage to India (1984), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. ^[1]

In 1990, Davis appeared in Alice , directed by Woody Allen, followed by a supporting role in David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch , as well as Joel Coen's Barton Fink (both 1991). She subsequently starred in Allen's drama Husbands and Wives (1992), which saw her nominated for the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, as well as a BAFTA for Best Actress. She subsequently co-starred with Glenn Close in the television drama film Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995) before reuniting with Allen to appear in Deconstructing Harry (1997) and Celebrity (1998).

Davis starred as Lillian Hellman in the Kathy Bates-directed television film Dash and Lilly (1999), followed by Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001), a critically acclaimed miniseries in which she portrayed Judy Garland. She again portrayed another real-life character, Nancy Reagan, in the television film The Reagans (2003). Subsequent film roles include the romantic comedy The Break-Up (2006), Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette (2006), and The Dressmaker . In 2017, Davis co-starred with Jessica Lange and Susan Sarandon on the network series Feud , in which she portrayed journalist Hedda Hopper.

Film

Key

†	Denotes films works that have not yet been released

Year	Title	Role	Director(s)	Notes	Ref.
1977	High Rolling	Lynn	Igor Auzins	Alternate title: High Rolling in a Hot Corvette	[2]
1979	My Brilliant Career	Sybylla Melvyn	Gillian Armstrong		[3]
1981	Hoodwink	Sarah	Claude Whatham		[4]
1981	Winter of Our Dreams	Lou	John Duigan		[4]
1982	Heatwave	Kate Dean	Phillip Noyce		[4]
1982	Who Dares Wins	Frankie Leith	Ian Sharp	Alternate title: The Final Option	[4] [5]
1984	A Passage to India	Adela Quested	David Lean		[4]
1986	Kangaroo	Harriet Somers	Tim Burstall		[1]
1987	High Tide	Lilli	Gillian Armstrong		[6]
1988	Georgia	Nina Bailley/Georgia White	Ben Lewin		[7]
1990	Alice	Vicki	Woody Allen		[8]
1991	Barton Fink	Audrey Taylor	Joel Coen		[8]
1991	Impromptu	George Sand	James Lapine		[6]
1991	Where Angels Fear to Tread	Harriet Harriton	Charles Sturridge		[9]
1991	Naked Lunch	Joan Lee/Joan Frost	David Cronenberg		[10]
1991	On My Own	The Mother	Antonio Tibaldi		[11]
1992	Husbands and Wives	Sally	Woody Allen		[12]
1993	Dark Blood	Buffy	George Sluizer	Incomplete and unreleased until 2012	[9]
1994	The Ref	Caroline Chasseur	Ted Demme	Alternate title: Hostile Hostages	[8]
1994	The New Age	Katherine Witner	Michael Tolkin		[13]
1996	Children of the Revolution	Joan Fraser	Peter Duncan		[9]
1997	Deconstructing Harry	Lucy	Woody Allen		[9]
1997	Absolute Power	Gloria Russell	Clint Eastwood		[8]
1997	Blood and Wine	Suzanne Gates	Bob Rafelson		[8]
1998	Celebrity	Robin Simon	Woody Allen		[14]
2001	The Man Who Sued God	Anna Redmond	Mark Joffe		[15]
2001	Gaudi Afternoon	Cassandra Reilly	Susan Seidelman		[16]
2003	Swimming Upstream	Dora Fingleton	Russell Mulcahy		[17]
2006	The Break-Up	Marilyn Dean	Peyton Reed		[18]
2006	Marie Antoinette	Comtesse de Noailles	Sofia Coppola		[19]
2011	The Eye of the Storm	Dorothy de Lascabanes	Fred Schepisi		[20]
2012	To Rome with Love	Phyllis	Woody Allen		[21]
2013	The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet	Jibsen	Jean-Pierre Jeunet		[22] [23]
2015	The Dressmaker	Molly Dunnage	Jocelyn Moorhouse		[24]
2021	Nitram	"Mum"	Justin Kurzel		[25]
2026	Holy Days	Sister Agnes	Nathalie Boltt		[26]
TBA	Butterfly Stroke†	Ruth	Denis Rabaglia		[27]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1980	Water Under the Bridge	Carrie Mazzini	Miniseries
1982	A Woman Called Golda	Golda Myerson/Meir	Television film	[6]
1983	The Merry Wives of Windsor	Mistress Ford	BBC Television Shakespeare
1985	The Mike Walsh Show	Guest - Herself	TV series, 1 episode
1986	Rocket to the Moon	Cleo Singer	American Playhouse	[28]
1991	One Against the Wind	Mary Lindell	Television film	[11]
1995	Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story	Dianne	Television film	[8]
1998	The Echo of Thunder	Gladwyn Ritchie	Television film	[29]
1999	Dash and Lilly	Lillian Hellman	Television film	[9]
1999	A Cooler Climate	Paula Tanner	Television film	[30]
2001	Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows	Judy Garland	Miniseries	[31]
2003	The Reagans	Nancy Reagan	Television film	[32]
2003	Coast to Coast	Maxine Pierce	Television film	[33]
2006	A Little Thing Called Murder	Sante Kimes	Television film	[31]
2007	The Starter Wife	Joan McAllister	Miniseries	[34]
2007	Masters of Science Fiction: A Clean Escape	Dr. Deanna Evans	2 episodes	[30]
2011	Page Eight	Jill Tankard	Television film	[35]
2009	Diamonds	Senator Joan Cameron	2 episodes	[30]
2014	Salting the Battlefield	Jill Tankard	Television film
2017	Feud: Bette and Joan	Hedda Hopper	8 episodes	[30]
2018	Mystery Road	Emma James	6 episodes	[36]
2020	Ratched	Betsy Bucket	Main role	[37]
2022	Roar	Rosey	Episode: "The Woman Who Ate Photographs"	[38]

Theatre

Year	Production	Role(s)	Playwright	Venue	Refs.
1977	Romeo and Juliet	Juliet	William Shakespeare	National Institute of Dramatic Art	[39]
1978	Visions	—N/a	Louis Nowra	Paris Theatre Company, Sydney	[40]
1980	Piaf	Edith Piaf	Pam Gems	Playhouse Theatre, Perth	[41]
1982	Insignificance	The Actress	Terry Johnson	Royal Court Theatre, London	[42]
1983	Miss Julie	Miss Julie	August Strindberg	Nimrod Theatre Company, Sydney	[43]
1984	King Lear	Cordelia / The Fool	William Shakespeare	Nimrod Theatre Company, Sydney
1984	The Bear	Popova	Anton Chekhov	Nimrod Theatre Company, Sydney
1984	Inside the Island	—N/a	Louis Nowra	Nimrod Theatre Company, Sydney
1984	Hedda Gabler	Hedda Gabler	Henrik Ibsen	Sydney Theatre Company, Sydney	[44]
1989	Hapgood	"Mother"	Tom Stoppard	Doolittle Theatre, Los Angeles	[45]
2011	The Seagull	Irina Arkadina	Anton Chekhov	Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney	[46]
2025	The Spare Room	Helen	Helen Garner	Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney	[47]

References

1. Mills, Nancy (April 4, 1987). "Judy Davis is Back on the U.S. Scene with 'Kangaroo'". Los Angeles Times . Los Angeles, California.
2. Callahan 2019, p. 179.
3. Maslin, Janet (October 6, 1979). "Film: Australian 'Brilliant Career' by Gillian Armstrong:The Cast". The New York Times . New York City, New York. Archived from the original on September 20, 2018.
4. Callahan 2019, p. 180.
5. McFarlane & Mayer 1992, p. 64.
6. Callahan 2019, p. 182.
7. "Georgia (1988)". Rotten Tomatoes .
8. Dretzka, Gary (May 12, 1997). "Hard Work Helps Judy Davis Find Her Motivation". Chicago Tribune . Chicago, Illinois.
9. Callahan 2019, p. 187.
10. Mitchell, Sean (September 13, 1992). "The Sudden Spotlight: Judy Davis has delivered great performances in mostly small films, but now finds herself in the year's most talked-about movie". Los Angeles Times . Los Angeles, California.
11. Callahan 2019, p. 185.
12. Callahan 2019, p. 186.
13. Variety Staff (December 31, 1993). "The New Age". Variety . Archived from the original on October 12, 2015.
14. O'Sullivan, Michael (November 20, 1998). "'Celebrity,' Illusion and Reality". The Washington Post . Washington, D.C.
15. Russell, Jamie (August 1, 2003). "The Man Who Sued God (2003)". BBC . Archived from the original on June 29, 2019.
16. Rabin, Nathan (October 11, 2002). "Gaudi Afternoon". The A.V. Club . Archived from the original on November 23, 2019.
17. Stratton, David (November 5, 2002). "Swimming Upstream". Variety . Archived from the original on July 2, 2017.
18. Travers, Peter (June 1, 2006). "The Break-Up". Rolling Stone .
19. "Who's Who in Marie Antoinette". The Guardian . London, England. Archived from the original on January 15, 2020.
20. Bulbeck, Pip (August 9, 2011). "'The Eye Of The Storm' Wins at Melbourne International Film Festival". The Hollywood Reporter .
21. Ebert, Roger (June 27, 2012). "To Rome with Love". Chicago Sun-Times . Chicago, Illinois.
22. Bradshaw, Peter (June 12, 2014). "The Young and Prodigious TS Spivet review – like mixing melted chocolate and bleach". The Guardian . London, England.
23. "Worricker: Salting the Battlefield". PBS .
24. Ebiri, Bilge (September 20, 2016). "Judy Davis on Letting Go of Judy Garland: 'She Would Have Taken Possession of Me'". The Village Voice .
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26. Vlessing, Etan. "Judy Davis' 'Holy Days' Headed to U.S. Theaters Via Blue Fox (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved March 3, 2026.
27. Barraclough, Leo. "Judy Davis, 'Bridgerton's' Florence Hunt Star in 'Butterfly Stroke'". Variety . Retrieved March 3, 2026.
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29. Joyner, Will (April 18, 1998). "A Matter of Love, Trust And, in Short, Family". The New York Times . New York City, New York. Archived from the original on May 27, 2015.
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32. Morrison, Patt (November 30, 2003). "What's Striking About 'The Reagans' Film Is What Isn't There". Los Angeles Times . Los Angeles, California.
33. Hernandez, Ernio (March 10, 2004). "Sly Fox Star Richard Dreyfuss and Judy Davis Star in Showtime "Coast to Coast," April 4". Playbill . Archived from the original on January 15, 2020.
34. Abernethy, Michael (October 9, 2008). "The Starter Wife: Season Premiere". PopMatters .
35. Rooney, David (September 14, 2011). "Page Eight: Toronto Review". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved January 15, 2020.
36. Clarke, Stuart (June 19, 2018). "'Mystery Road,' Judy Davis and Aaron Pedersen Drama Series, Heads to Acorn TV in the U.S." Variety .
37. Petski, Denise (January 14, 2019). "'Ratched': Sharon Stone, Cynthia Nixon Among 10 Cast In Ryan Murphy's Netflix Series". Deadline Hollywood .
38. Scherer, Jenna (April 22, 2022). "'Roar' Is Spoon-Fed Women's Empowerment That's Tough to Swallow". Rolling Stone. Retrieved May 31, 2022.
39. "Judy Davis Bio". acmi. Retrieved March 5, 2026.
40. "Judy Davis in The Eye of the Storm" . Retrieved March 5, 2026.
41. Ebiri, Bilge. "Judy Davis on the Art of Acting — and Being Judy Davis". Houston Press. Retrieved March 5, 2026.
42. Ebiri, Bilge. "Judy Davis on the Art of Acting — and Being Judy Davis". Houston Press. Retrieved March 5, 2026.
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46. Ng, David (July 16, 2011). "Judy Davis returns to stage in Australian production of 'The Seagull'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 6, 2026.
47. Tongue, Cassie (June 13, 2025). "The Spare Room review – Judy Davis is electric in thrilling adaptation of Helen Garner novel". The Guardian. Retrieved March 6, 2026.

Sources

• Callahan, Dan (2019). The Art of American Screen Acting, 1960 to Today. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. ISBN   978-1-476-67695-1.
• McFarlane, Brian; Mayer, Geoff (1992). New Australian Cinema: Sources and Parallels in American and British Film . Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-0-521-38768-2.

External links

• Judy Davis filmography at IMDb