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Judy Davis (born April 23, 1955) is an Australian
actor|actress.

==Career==

Born in Perth, Western Australia|Perth, she was
educated at Loreto Convent and graduated from the
National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1977.
She has been nominated for Academy Awards twice;
first, for best actress in A Passage to India
(1984) and second, for best supporting actress in
Husbands and Wives (1992). She has won an
extraordinary range of other American and
Australian awards, year after year.

Best known for her role as Sybylla Melvyn in My
Brilliant Career (1979), she also played the lead
in such Australian New Wave classics as Heatwave
(movie)|Heatwave (1982) (Davis is the radical
tenant organizer) and The Winter of Our Dreams
(1981) (she's the waif-like heroin addict). Some
critics believe her finest performance was in High
Tide (1987), the story of an alcoholic mother who
attempts to reunite with her teenage daughter who
is being raised by the paternal grandmother. A
later memorable Davis role was the lifelong
Australian Communist Party member reacting to the
downfall of the Soviet Union in Children of the
Revolution (1996).  

Davis' unwillingness to move to Hollywood has
probably limited her career in some respects, but
she is known in the industry as an "actor's
actor."  Like Patty Duke, she has developed a
second career in made-for-TV movies, where she
displays an uncanny ability to turn a sow's ear
into a silk purse by subverting schlocky scripts
(as for instance in her portrayals of Judy Garland
and Lillian Hellman). Even in her early acting
years, Davis rarely appeared in conventional
action films—she works best with
sophisticated scripts aimed at grown-up audiences,
playing against intelligent leading men such as
Peter Weller, Sam Neill, Richard Dreyfuss,
Geoffrey Rush, and Woody Allen. 

She has been married to actor and fellow NIDA
graduate Colin Friels since 1984. They have two
children.

==Films==
*Alice
*Celebrity
*Children of the Revolution
*Deconstructing Harry
*Georgia (movie)|Georgia
*Heatwave (movie)|Heatwave
*High Rolling
*High Tide 
*Husbands and Wives
*The Man Who Sued God
*Marie-Antoinette
*My Brilliant Career
*Naked Lunch (movie)|Naked Lunch
*The New Age
*The Ref
*A Passage to India
*Swimming Upstream
*Where Angels Fear to Tread
*Who Dares Wins (film)|Who Dares Wins
*The Winter of Our Dreams

==Television==
*The Reagans
*Coast to Coast
*Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows
*A Cooler Climate
*The Echo of Thunder
*Dash and Lilly
*One Against the Wind
*Rocket to the Moon
*The Merry Wives of Windsor (BBC Shakespeare
plays)