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Judith Anderson (February 10, 1897 – January
3, 1992) was an Australian stage and film
actor|actress.

Born Frances Margaret Anderson-Anderson in
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, Anderson
began acting in Australia before moving to New
York in 1918. She established herself as a
dramatic actress of note making several appearance
in the plays of William Shakespeare.

Preferring the stage, she did not appear in many
films, and in Hollywood she was considered a
character actress who was difficult to cast
because of her striking features. She received an
Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting
Actress for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's
Rebecca. As the housekeeper Mrs Danvers, Anderson
was required to mentally torment a young bride
played by Joan Fontaine, even encouraging her to
commit suicide and the character is widely
considered to be one of the screen's most
memorable female villains.

This led to several film appearances during the
40s in such films as Kings Row (1943), Laura (1944
movie)|Laura (1944), The Diary of a Chambermaid
and And Then There Were None (both 1946). She
continued returning to the New York stage, playing
the role of Lady Macbeth (Shakespeare)|Lady
Macbeth twice and winning a Tony Award in 1948 for
her role in Medea (play)|Medea.

She holds the unusual distinction of winning two
separate Emmy Awards for playing the same role -
Lady MacBeth - in two separate productions of
MacBeth.

Her stage and film work continued and by the 50s
she was also appearing in television productions.

In her later years she played two more prominent
roles in productions that took her as far away
from her Shakespearean origins as possible. In
1984 she appeared in Star Trek III: The Search for
Spock as the Vulcan (Star Trek)|Vulcan High
Priestess, and the same year commenced a three
year stint as matriarch Minx Lockridge on the
popular soap opera Santa Barbara (television
series)|Santa Barbara of which she had professed
to be a fan.

She also loved the city of Santa Barbara,
California and spent the remainder of her life
there, dying of pneumonia in 1992.

Anderson was created a Order of the British
Empire|DBE in 1959 and thereafter was often billed
as Dame Judith Anderson.

==References==
* Eric Pace.  "Dame Judith Anderson Dies at 93; An
Actress of Powerful Portrayals."  The New York
Times.  January 4, 1992.  27.