Judy Davis

Q: Has Judy Davis won any major awards?

Yes, Judy Davis has won several awards, including multiple AACTA Awards and a BAFTA Award. She has also received nominations for Academy Awards.

Q: What was Judy Davis's first film?

Judy Davis made her film debut in 'The Love Letters from Teralba Road' in 1977. This marked the beginning of her successful acting career.

Q: What is Judy Davis's net worth?

Judy Davis's estimated net worth is around $10 million, reflecting her successful career in film and television.

Q: How many children does Judy Davis have?

Judy Davis has two children, Charles Friels and Julia Friels, with her husband Colin Friels. They have maintained a private family life.

Q: What is Judy Davis's acting style?

Judy Davis is known for her intense and emotional acting style. She often portrays complex characters, bringing depth and authenticity to her roles.

Q: What television shows has Judy Davis appeared in?

Judy Davis has appeared in several television shows, including 'The Starter Wife' and 'Catherine the Great'. Her performances have earned her additional accolades.

Q: Is Judy Davis involved in theater?

Yes, Judy Davis has a strong background in theater. She has performed in various stage productions, showcasing her versatility as an actress.

Known for

Marie Antoinette (2006)

IMDb 6.5 / 10

2006 / Biography, Drama / 123 min

The retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as...

Name

Judy Davis

Height

5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)

Born

23 April 1955, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Spouses

Colin Friels (1984–present)

Children

2, Charles Friels, Julia Friels

Parents

Daphne Davis, James Davis

Estimated Net Worth

$10 million

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2026	Movie Holy Days When young Brian discovers plans to close a convent of delightfully eccentric nuns, he sets off with them on a...	Sister Agnes	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2022	TV Roar Featuring an all-star cast, this genre-bending anthology series weaves together eight darkly comedic feminist fables that take unexpected approaches to...	Rosey	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2021	Movie Nitram Based on true events, "Nitram" lives with his parents in suburban Australia in the mid-90s. He lives a life of...	Mother	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2020	TV Ratched In 1947, Mildred Ratched begins working as a nurse at a leading psychiatric hospital. But beneath her stylish exterior lurks...	Betsy Bucket	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2018	TV Mystery Road When there is a mysterious disappearance on an outback cattle station, Detective Jay Swan is assigned to investigate. Working with...	Emma James	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2018	TV Mystery Road When there is a mysterious disappearance on an outback cattle station, Detective Jay Swan is assigned to investigate. Working with...	Detective Emma James	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2017	Movie David Stratton: A Cinematic Life A compelling personal journey with David Stratton, as he relates the fascinating development of our cinema history. David guides us...	Self	TMDB 4.3 / 10
2017	TV FEUD Anthology series of famous feuds with the first season based on the legendary rivalry between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford...	Hedda Hopper	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2015	Movie The Dressmaker In 1950s Australia, beautiful, talented dressmaker Tilly returns to her tiny hometown to right wrongs from her past. As she...	Molly Dunnage	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2014	Movie Riding a Train of Thoughts A documentary directed by Julien Lecat.	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2014	Movie Salting the Battlefield David Hare concludes his trilogy of films about MI5 renegade Johnny Worricker with another fugue on power, secrets and the...	Jill Tankard	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2013	Movie The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet A 10-year-old child prodigy cartographer secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and...	G.H. Jibsen	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2012	Movie Dark Blood Filmed in 1993 but never completed due to River Phoenix's death, Dark Blood tells the story of Boy, a young...	Buffy Fletcher	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2012	Movie To Rome with Love Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young man whose romantic woes...	Phyllis	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2011	Movie The Eye of the Storm In a Sydney suburb, two nurses, Maria and Flora, a housekeeper, Lotte, and a solicitor, Arnold, attend to Elizabeth Hunter...	Dorothy de Lascabanes	TMDB 4.8 / 10
2011	Movie Page Eight Johnny is a long-serving MI5 officer. His boss dies suddenly, leaving behind an inexplicable file which threatens the stability of...	Jill Tankard	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2010	Movie Kuru: The Science and the Sorcery Australian scientist Michael Alpers dedicated over 50 years to researching Kuru, an obscure and incurable brain disease unique to the...	Self - Narrator (voice)	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2009	Movie Mask and Memory: Sidney Nolan A documentary about the great 20th century Australian painter Sidney Nolan, and how his life was shaped by the three...	Self (Narrator)	Not rated
2009	TV Diamonds The once mighty Denmont Corporation with headquarters in South Africa is on the verge of collapse, threatened by upstart rivals...	Unknown character	Not rated
2009	Movie Diamonds Complex tale about small and big players in the African diamond business wrapped around a murder of US senator's daughter.	Joan Cameron	TMDB 4.7 / 10
2008	TV The Starter Wife Molly Kagan, the ex-wife of a Hollywood entertainment mogul, transitions into a fabulous independent life after her divorce.	Joan McAllister	Not rated
2007	TV Masters of Science Fiction Masters of Science Fiction is an American television anthology series with each hour long episode taking the form of a...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2007	Movie The Making of Marie Antoinette A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette (2006).	Self	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2007	TV The Starter Wife The events of one woman's life following her divorce after years of marriage to a Hollywood studio executive. Based on...	Joan McAllister	TMDB 4.4 / 10
2006	Movie The Break-Up Pushed to the breaking-up point after their latest 'why can't you do this one little thing for me?' argument, Brooke...	Marilyn Dean	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2006	Movie Marie Antoinette A retelling of the story of France’s iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette - from her betrothal and marriage to...	Comtesse de Noailles	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2006	Movie A Little Thing Called Murder Fast forgery without mistakes. Shoplifting under pressure. Effective body disposal. The ability to multitask various felonies. These are just a...	Sante Kimes	TMDB 4.8 / 10
2004	Movie Coast to Coast Barnaby and Maxine Pierce, an embattled married couple in Connecticut, are on the verge of divorce. Their son is getting...	Maxine Pierce	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2003	TV The Reagans The Reagans is a 180-minute television miniseries about U.S. President Ronald Reagan and his family which CBS had planned to...	Nancy Reagan	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2003	Movie The Reagans The miniseries featured James Brolin as Ronald Reagan and Judy Davis as Nancy Reagan, and covers the period in time...	Nancy Reagan	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2003	Movie Swimming Upstream A young man aspiring for recognition of his talents battles against his estranged father's sentiment towards him as the father...	Dora Fingleton	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2001	Movie The Man Who Sued God A lawyer becomes a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and...	Anna Redmond	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2001	Movie Gaudi Afternoon Barcelona hasn’t turned out to be the romantic dreamland fledgling translator Cassandra thought it would be. But just when she’s...	Cassandra	TMDB 4.9 / 10
2001	TV Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows Chronicles the life of Judy Garland, from her first public performance in 1924 until her death.	Judy Garland	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1999	Movie A Cooler Climate Iris is broke after her divorce and takes a job working as a housekeeper for a wealthy woman named Paula....	Paula	TMDB 4.8 / 10
1999	Movie Dash and Lilly Biographical look at the bombastic love affair that writers Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman shared in 1940 and 50's Hollywood....	Lillian Hellman	TMDB 8.7 / 10
1998	Movie Celebrity The career and personal life of writer Lee are at a standstill, so he divorces his bashful wife, Robin, and...	Robin Simon	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1998	Movie The Echo of Thunder Scenic settings in Australia enhance this Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation, a simple yet engaging tale about a teenage girl's...	Gladwyn Ritchie	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1997	Movie Deconstructing Harry Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people...	Lucy	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1997	TV The View ABC Daytime's morning chatfest, currently featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Ana Navarro...	Self	TMDB 4.4 / 10
1997	Movie Absolute Power A master thief coincidentally is robbing a house where a murder—in which the President of the United States is involved—occurs...	Gloria Russell	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1996	Movie Children of the Revolution A man (Richard Roxburgh) the Australian government blames for 1990s political woes blames his mother (Judy Davis), a communist Stalin...	Joan Fraser Welch	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1996	Movie Blood and Wine A man who has failed as a father and husband commits a heist to make money for his fledging business,...	Suzanne	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1995	Movie Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story After serving in the military for more than twenty years, including a tour of duty in Vietnam, Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer...	Diane	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1994	Movie The New Age Peter and Katherine Witner are Southern California super-yuppies with great jobs but no center to their lives. When they both...	Katherine Witner	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1994	Movie The Ref A cat burglar is forced to take a bickering, dysfunctional family hostage on Christmas Eve.	Caroline Chasseur	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1993	Movie On My Own Simon Henderson is at boarding school in Canada while his father works in Hong Kong, and his mother lives in...	The Mother	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1992	Movie Naked Making Lunch A 1992 documentary about the making of Naked Lunch.	Self	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1992	Movie Husbands and Wives When their best friends announce that they're separating, a professor and his wife discover the faults in their own marriage.	Sally	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1991	Movie Naked Lunch Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging...	Joan Frost	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1991	Movie One Against the Wind Mary Linden works for the French Red Cross in Occupied France during World War II and helps allied soldiers who...	Countess Mary Lindell	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1991	Movie Barton Fink A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of...	Audrey Taylor	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1991	Movie Where Angels Fear to Tread An English widow goes to Italy, falls in love with a dentist's son and marries him, against her straitlaced family's...	Harriet Herriton	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1991	Movie Impromptu In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name George Sand.	George Sand	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1990	Movie Alice Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for a handsome sax player, Joe....	Vicky	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1989	Movie Georgia A young woman investigates the death of her mother, who drowned when her daughter was still a baby. The question...	Nina Bailley / Georgia White	TMDB 3.3 / 10
1987	Movie High Tide A backup singer gets stranded in a small coastal town after losing her job in a band. She winds up...	Lillie	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1987	Movie A Pair of One Tells the story of Greta and Freda Chaplin, a pair of English identical twins who dress alike, try to walk...	Narrator (voice)	Not rated
1986	Movie Kangaroo A mild-mannered English conscientious objector moves to what he feels will be the relative calm of Australia after World War...	Harriet Somers	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1986	Movie Rocket to the Moon In 1938 New York City, a dentist finds his business and marriage failing as he embarks on a love affair...	Cleo	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1984	Movie A Passage to India Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to...	Adela Quested	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1982	Movie The Merry Wives of Windsor When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair...	Mistress Ford	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1982	Movie Who Dares Wins When SAS Captain Peter Skellen is thrown out of the service for gross misconduct due to unnecessary violence and bullying,...	Frankie Leith	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1982	Movie A Woman Called Golda The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early...	Young Golda	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1982	Movie Heatwave During a Christmas heatwave, a community activist attempts to stop a redevelopment project that is displacing residents in the Kings...	Kate Dean	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1982	TV American Playhouse American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.	Cleo	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1981	Movie Hoodwink Hoodwink is based on the true story of an Australian con artist who briefly won the hearts of the media...	Sarah	TMDB 4.9 / 10
1981	Movie Winter of Our Dreams When a womanizing bookshop owner hears about the suicide of a former girlfriend, he tries to find out more and...	Lou	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1980	TV Water Under the Bridge Water Under the Bridge is a 1980 mini series based on the 1977 novel by Sumner Locke Elliott.	Carrie Mazzini	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1980	Movie Ciné regards: Judy Davis Television documentary about Australian actress Judy Davis and her film debut MY BRILLIANT CAREER (1979).	Interviewee	Not rated
1979	Movie My Brilliant Career A young woman who is determined to maintain her independence finds herself at odds with her family who wants her...	Sybylla Melvyn	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1978	TV The BBC Television Shakespeare The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric...	Mistress Ford	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1977	Movie High Rolling Two fun-loving carnival workers take a vacation with the hope of finding plenty of sex and drugs. Their "quest" is...	Lynn	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1953	TV The Oscars An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1951	TV Hallmark Hall of Fame Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards,...	Gladwyn Ritchie	TMDB 8.8 / 10
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TBA	Movie Butterfly Stroke Ruth is an eccentric, determined woman who wants control over everything. Even death. So, she goes to Zurich for a...	Ruth	Not rated

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2011	Movie The Eye of the Storm In a Sydney suburb, two nurses, Maria and Flora, a housekeeper, Lotte, and a solicitor, Arnold, attend to Elizabeth Hunter...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 4.8 / 10

Holy Days

2026 / TMDB 6.3

Nitram

2021 / TMDB 6.9

David Stratton: A Cinematic Life

2017 / TMDB 4.3

The Dressmaker

2015 / TMDB 7.0

Riding a Train of Thoughts

2014 / TMDB 7.0

Salting the Battlefield

2014 / TMDB 6.3

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What are Judy Davis's most famous films?

Judy Davis is best known for films like 'My Brilliant Career', 'The Dressmaker', and 'A Passage to India'. These roles showcased her range and earned her critical acclaim.

Has Judy Davis won any major awards?

What was Judy Davis's first film?

What is Judy Davis's net worth?

How many children does Judy Davis have?

What is Judy Davis's acting style?

What television shows has Judy Davis appeared in?

Is Judy Davis involved in theater?

Known for

Marie Antoinette (2006)

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