FILMOGRAPHY
2006]
A Little Thing Called Murder (TV)
2006] Marie-Antoinette
2004] Coast to Coast (TV)
2003] The Reagans (TV)
2003] Swimming Upstream
2001] The Man Who Sued God
2001] Gaudi Afternoon
2001] Life with Judy Garland: Me & My Shadows (TV)
2000] Rosamunde Pilcher - Zerrissene Herzen (TV)
1999] A Cooler Climate (TV)
1999] Dash and Lilly (TV)
1998] Celebrity
1998] The Echo of Thunder (TV)
1997] Deconstructing Harry
1997] Absolute Power
1996] Blood and Wine
1996] Children of the Revolution
1995] Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (TV)
1994] The New Age
1994] The Ref
1993] Dark Blood
1992] On My Own
1992] Husbands and Wives
1991] Naked Lunch
1991] One Against the Wind (TV)
1991] Where Angels Fear to Tread
1991] Barton Fink
1991] Impromptu
1990] Alice
1988] Georgia
1987] High Tide
1986] Kangaroo
1986] Rocket to the Moon (TV)
1984] A Passage to India
1982] The Merry Wives of Windsor (TV)
1982] Who Dares Wins
1982] A Woman Called Golda (TV)
1982] Heatwave
1981] Hoodwink
1981] Winter of Our Dreams
1980] Water Under the Bridge (TV)
1979] My Brilliant Career
1977] High Rolling
1976] Clean Straw for Nothing
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Born 23 April 1955 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Married to Australian actor Colin Friels. They studied at NIDA together & have co-starred together in 4 films: High Tide (1987) - Hoodwink (1981) - Kangaroo (1986) - The Man Who Sued God (2001). They have a son, Jack & a daughter, Charlotte.
Trained at NIDA (National Institute of Dramatic Arts). Her fellow students included Colin Friels, Dennis Olsen & Mel Gibson whom she played opposite in Romeo & Juliet.
Davis left home and sang with a band that toured Taiwan and Japan. After three months of this, she returned home and studied at Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art.
Scored 2 oscar nominations: first in 1985 for Best Actress in a Leading Role for: 'A Passage to India' & then in 1993 for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for: 'Husbands and Wives'
In 1981 she won 2 BAFTA awards for her work in My Brilliant Career winning both Best Actress & Best Newcomer
She's won 2 Emmy's: first in 1995 for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Special for: 'Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story' with which she tied with Shirley Knight for Indictment: The McMartin Trial (TV), & then recently she won Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her stunning turn in: 'Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows' for which she also won a Golden Globe. She has also been nominated 5 times for an Emmy.
She has a total of 6 AFI (Australian Film Institute) Awards.
Judy on Woody Allen:
"I’d always wanted to work with Woody. I think the first Woody Allen film 1 saw was "Annie Hall". "Manhattan" too, I love. And "Stardust Memories", which is also to do with celebrity and how people view it. Every time I’ve worked with him, l’ve learnt something monumental about comedy and how to pitch it. For example, there’s a scene [in Celebrity] where Joe Mantegna takes me to a film preview and I see my former husband, freak out and try to hide. Woody kept wanting me to pitch it higher; I kept thinking, ‘I can’t play it any higher, I'm reaching the edge’. But if I go with him and trust him, he pushes me into dangerous and challenging territory, which is very exciting."