List of Judy Davis performances

Last updated

Judy Davis filmography
Judy Davis - Eye of The Storm.jpg
Judy Davis in 2012
Film34
Television series21

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]

Contents

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
YearTitleRoleDirector(s)NotesRef.
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 LilliGillian 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 MotherAntonio Tibaldi [11]
1992 Husbands and Wives SallyWoody 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 LucyWoody Allen [9]
1997 Absolute Power Gloria Russell Clint Eastwood [8]
1997 Blood and Wine Suzanne Gates Bob Rafelson [8]
1998 Celebrity Robin SimonWoody Allen [14]
2001 The Man Who Sued God Anna Redmond Mark Joffe [15]
2001 Gaudi Afternoon Cassandra ReillySusan 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 PhyllisWoody 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]

Television

YearTitleRoleNotesRef.
1980 Water Under the Bridge Carrie MazziniMiniseries
1982 A Woman Called Golda Golda Myerson/MeirTelevision film [6]
1983 The Merry Wives of Windsor Mistress Ford BBC Television Shakespeare
1985 The Mike Walsh Show Guest - HerselfTV series, 1 episode
1986 Rocket to the Moon Cleo Singer American Playhouse [26]
1991 One Against the Wind Mary LindellTelevision film [11]
1995 Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story DianneTelevision film [8]
1998 The Echo of Thunder Gladwyn RitchieTelevision film [27]
1999 Dash and Lilly Lillian Hellman Television film [9]
1999 A Cooler Climate Paula TannerTelevision film [28]
2001 Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows Judy Garland Miniseries [29]
2003 The Reagans Nancy Reagan Television film [30]
2003 Coast to Coast Maxine PierceTelevision film [31]
2006 A Little Thing Called Murder Sante Kimes Television film [29]
2007 The Starter Wife Joan McAllisterMiniseries [32]
2007 Masters of Science Fiction: A Clean EscapeDr. Deanna Evans2 episodes [28]
2011 Page Eight Jill TankardTelevision film [33]
2009DiamondsSenator Joan Cameron2 episodes [28]
2014 Salting the Battlefield Jill TankardTelevision film
2017 Feud: Bette and Joan Hedda Hopper 8 episodes [28]
2018 Mystery Road Emma James6 episodes [34]
2020 Ratched Betsy BucketMain role [35]
2022 Roar RoseyEpisode: "The Woman Who Ate Photographs" [36]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Judy Garland</span> American actress and singer (1922–1969)

Judy Garland was an American actress, singer, and dancer. She attained international stardom and critical acclaim: as an actress in both musical and dramatic roles; as a recording artist; and on the concert stage. Renowned for her versatility, she received a Golden Globe Award, a Special Tony Award and was one of twelve in history to receive an Academy Juvenile Award. Garland won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year for her 1961 live recording, Judy at Carnegie Hall; she was the first woman to win that award.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Liza Minnelli</span> American actress, singer, and dancer (born 1946)

Liza May Minnelli is an American actress, singer, dancer, and choreographer. Known for her commanding stage presence and powerful alto singing voice, Minnelli has received numerous accolades, and is one of the few performers awarded a non-competitive EGOT. Minnelli is a Knight of the French Legion of Honour.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Susan Hayward</span> American actress (1917–1975)

Susan Hayward was an American actress best known for her film portrayals of women that were based on true stories.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Renée Zellweger</span> American actress (born 1969)

Renée Kathleen Zellweger is an American actress. The recipient of various accolades, including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards, she was one of the world's highest-paid actresses by 2007.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Geena Davis</span> American actor and activist (born 1956)

Virginia Elizabeth "Geena" Davis is an American actor and activist. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Judy Davis</span> Australian film, television, and stage actress (born 1955)

Judith Davis is an Australian actress. In a career spanning over four decades of both screen and stage, she has been commended for her versatility and regarded as one of the finest actresses of her generation. Frequent collaborator Woody Allen described her as "one of the most exciting actresses in the world". Davis has received numerous accolades, including nine AACTA Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards.

<i>9 to 5</i> (film) 1980 American comedy film directed by Colin Higgins

9 to 5 is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Colin Higgins, who wrote the screenplay with Patricia Resnick. It stars Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton as three working women who live out their fantasies of getting even with and overthrowing the company's autocratic, "sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot" boss, played by Dabney Coleman.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John Callahan (actor)</span> American actor (1953–2020)

John Kevin Callahan was an American actor, known for his work as Edmund Grey on the daytime soap opera All My Children.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Regina King</span> American actress and director (born 1971)

Regina Rene King is an American actress and director. She has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and four Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2019, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Judy Greer</span> American actress (born 1975)

Judith Therese Evans, known professionally as Judy Greer, is an American actress. She is primarily known as a character actress who has appeared in a wide variety of films. She rose to prominence for her supporting roles in the films Jawbreaker (1999), What Women Want (2000), 13 Going on 30 (2004), Elizabethtown (2005), 27 Dresses (2008), and Love & Other Drugs (2010).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tessa Thompson</span> American actress (born 1983)

Tessa Lynne Thompson is an American actress. She began her professional acting career with the Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company while studying at Santa Monica College, appearing in productions of The Tempest and Romeo and Juliet. Following her role in Veronica Mars (2005–2006), her breakthrough came with leading roles in Tina Mabry's independent drama film Mississippi Damned (2009) and Tyler Perry's For Colored Girls (2010).

<i>A Star Is Born</i> (1937 film) 1937 film by William A. Wellman

A Star Is Born is a 1937 American Technicolor drama film produced by David O. Selznick, directed by William A. Wellman from a script by Wellman, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker, and Alan Campbell, and starring Janet Gaynor as an aspiring Hollywood actress, and Fredric March as a fading movie star who helps launch her career. The supporting cast features Adolphe Menjou, May Robson, Andy Devine, Lionel Stander, and Owen Moore. At the 10th Academy Awards, it became the first color film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

<i>A Star Is Born</i> (1954 film) 1954 film by George Cukor

A Star Is Born is a 1954 American musical drama film directed by George Cukor, written by Moss Hart, and starring Judy Garland and James Mason. Hart's screenplay is an adaptation of the original 1937 film, based on the original screenplay by Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell, and from the same story by William A. Wellman and Carson, with uncredited input from six additional writers—David O. Selznick, Ben Hecht, Ring Lardner Jr., John Lee Mahin, Budd Schulberg and Adela Rogers St. Johns.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Viola Davis</span> American actress and producer (born 1965)

Viola Davis is an American actress and film producer. Known for her work across screen and stage, her accolades include both the Triple Crown of Acting and the EGOT. Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2012 and 2017. In 2020, The New York Times ranked her ninth on its list of the greatest actors of the 21st century.

Tammy Blanchard is an American actress. She rose to prominence for her role as teenage Judy Garland in the critically acclaimed television film Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001), for which she received a Golden Globe Award nomination and a Primetime Emmy Award. Her other notable film roles were in The Good Shepherd (2006), Sybil (2007), Into the Woods (2014) and The Invitation (2015).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Anne Edwards</span> American author (1927–2024)

Anne Edwards was an American writer best known for her biographies, including those of celebrities such as Maria Callas, Judy Garland, Katharine Hepburn, Vivien Leigh, Margaret Mitchell, Ronald Reagan, Barbra Streisand, Shirley Temple and royalty including Matriarch Queen Mary of Teck, Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Margaret, Princess Diana and Countess Sonya Tolstoy.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kiernan Shipka</span> American actress (b. 1999)

Kiernan Brennan Shipka is an American actress, best-known for her roles as Sally Draper in the AMC drama series Mad Men (2007–2015), and Sabrina Spellman in the Netflix fantasy series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018–2020) and the sixth season of The CW series Riverdale (2021–2022).

<i>Mara Maru</i> 1952 film by Gordon Douglas

Mara Maru is a 1952 American noir action film starring Errol Flynn, Ruth Roman and Raymond Burr. Directed by Gordon Douglas, it was the last movie Flynn made for Warner Bros where he had started out in Hollywood in 1935.

<i>Never Rarely Sometimes Always</i> 2020 drama film by Eliza Hittman

Never Rarely Sometimes Always is a 2020 drama film written and directed by Eliza Hittman. It stars Sidney Flanigan, Talia Ryder, Théodore Pellerin, Ryan Eggold, and Sharon Van Etten. It had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 2020. It was also selected to compete for the Golden Bear in the main competition section at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize. The film was released in the United States on March 13, 2020, by Focus Features. It received widespread acclaim from critics, with praise for Flanigan's performance and Hittman's direction and screenplay.

References

  1. 1 2 Mills, Nancy (April 4, 1987). "Judy Davis is Back on the U.S. Scene with 'Kangaroo'". Los Angeles Times . Los Angeles, California. Archived from the original on January 15, 2020.
  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. 1 2 3 4 5 Callahan 2019, p. 180.
  5. ↑ McFarlane & Mayer 1992, p. 64.
  6. 1 2 3 Callahan 2019, p. 182.
  7. ↑ "Georgia (1988)". Rotten Tomatoes . Archived from the original on January 15, 2020.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Dretzka, Gary (May 12, 1997). "Hard Work Helps Judy Davis Find Her Motivation". Chicago Tribune . Chicago, Illinois. Archived from the original on January 15, 2020.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 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. Archived from the original on January 15, 2020.
  11. 1 2 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. Archived from the original on January 15, 2020.
  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 . Archived from the original on January 15, 2020.
  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 . Archived from the original on January 15, 2020.
  21. ↑ Ebert, Roger (June 27, 2012). "To Rome with Love". Chicago Sun-Times . Chicago, Illinois. Archived from the original on January 15, 2020.
  22. ↑ Bradshaw, Peter (June 12, 2014). "The Young and Prodigious TS Spivet review – like mixing melted chocolate and bleach". The Guardian . London, England. Archived from the original on January 15, 2020.
  23. ↑ "Worricker: Salting the Battlefield". PBS . Archived from the original on January 15, 2020.
  24. ↑ Ebiri, Bilge (September 20, 2016). "Judy Davis on Letting Go of Judy Garland: 'She Would Have Taken Possession of Me'". The Village Voice . Archived from the original on January 15, 2020.
  25. ↑ Grater, Tom; N'Duka, Amanda (March 27, 2021). "Justin Kurzel Sets Caleb Landry Jones, Judy Davis & Essie Davis For Port Arthur Massacre Film 'Nitram'". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved March 27, 2021.
  26. ↑ Callahan, Dan (February 5, 2007). "5 for the Day: Judy Davis". Slant Magazine . Archived from the original on January 15, 2020.
  27. ↑ 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.
  28. 1 2 3 4 "Judy Davis Credits". TV Guide . Retrieved January 14, 2020.
  29. 1 2 Callahan 2019, p. 188.
  30. ↑ Morrison, Patt (November 30, 2003). "What's Striking About 'The Reagans' Film Is What Isn't There". Los Angeles Times . Los Angeles, California. Archived from the original on January 15, 2020.
  31. ↑ 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.
  32. ↑ Abernethy, Michael (October 9, 2008). "The Starter Wife: Season Premiere". PopMatters . Archived from the original on January 15, 2020.
  33. ↑ Rooney, David (September 14, 2011). "Page Eight: Toronto Review". The Hollywood Reporter . Archived from the original on October 21, 2015. Retrieved January 15, 2020.
  34. ↑ Clarke, Stuart (June 19, 2018). "'Mystery Road,' Judy Davis and Aaron Pedersen Drama Series, Heads to Acorn TV in the U.S." Variety . Archived from the original on January 15, 2020.
  35. ↑ Petski, Denise (January 14, 2019). "'Ratched': Sharon Stone, Cynthia Nixon Among 10 Cast In Ryan Murphy's Netflix Series". Deadline Hollywood . Archived from the original on January 15, 2020.
  36. ↑ Scherer, Jenna (April 22, 2022). "'Roar' Is Spoon-Fed Women's Empowerment That's Tough to Swallow". Rolling Stone. Retrieved May 31, 2022.

Sources

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.