Biography

Judy Davis

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Davis was educated at Loreto Convent and the Western Institute of Technology and graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1977. She found international success with the role of Adela Quested in A Passage to India (1984). Her performance was nominated an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. She went on to receive another Academy Award nomination (this time for Best Actress in a Supporting Role) for her performance as Sally in Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives (1992). Davis and Allen would go on to be a longtime collaborators; Allen once described Davis as "one of the most exciting actresses in the world".
- IMDb mini biography by: Anthony Ronald Vario

Attended drama school with Mel Gibson. They played Romeo and Juliet together.
She was among the cast members of the George Sluizer film Dark Blood (2012) that was filmed in 1993 and was left unfinished by star River Phoenix's 1993 death.
To prepare for her role as Judy Garland in Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001), she pored over television footage, biographies and nearly all of Garland's 32 feature films. She also wore dark contact lenses for the role.
In a 1994 interview, she listed Robin Williams as the one actor she would like to work with but hadn't. In 1997, they both appeared in Deconstructing Harry (1997), but did not share any scenes.
Although most of her work is in American film and television, she has steadfastly refused to move to the United States and prefers to live in Sydney, Australia.

[on working with David Lean] There was a touch of the bully about him - he'd take it out on the people who were the weakest and most dependent.
When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was, I thought well, I suppose it is. It is if you get to play Macbeth or Hamlet. But who wants to play bloody Lady Macbeth or Ophelia? And it struck me that most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.
I was always terribly shy, so a great thing that acting has done for me has forced me out of myself and made me more generous.
I've never worked for the sake of working. There's probably enough crap out there for me not to add to it.
"It's like you're getting ready to go to Cinderella's ball. And then, when you lose, it's like you wake up and realize you're not Cinderella." (on being an Oscar nominee)

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