Judy DavisFilmography

The Starter Wife

Actors: Debra Messing, Joe Mantegna, Judy Davis, Miranda Otto, Anika Noni Rose, Peter Jacobson

Synopsis: Based on the 2005 bestselling novel by Gigi Levangie Grazer, the six-part miniseries The Starter Wife starred former Will & Grace leading lady Debra Messing as Molly Kagan, an archetypal "Hollywood wife" who for ten years had enjoyed the perks and privileges of being married to powerful studio Read More

Masters of Science Fiction: A Clean Escape

Actors: Judy Davis, Sam Waterston

Marie Antoinette

Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Judy Davis, Rip Torn, Rose Byrne

Synopsis: Writer and director Sofia Coppola puts a new spin on the life and times of one of Europe's most infamous monarchs in this lavish historical drama which fuses a contemporary sensibility with painstaking recreations of the look of the 18th century. Born to Austrian nobility, Marie Antoinette (Kirsten Dunst Read More

The Break-Up

Actors: Vince Vaughn, Jennifer Aniston, Joey Lauren Adams, Ann-Margret, Jason Bateman

Synopsis: A once-loving Chicago couple whose happily-ever-after quickly turned into a never-again finds their crumbling romance complicated when both parties refuse to move out of the pair's recently purchased condo. The Break-Up is a romantic comedy that starts where all the others end. The future once Read More

A Little Thing Called Murder

Actors: Judy Davis, Jonathan Jackson, Chelcie Ross, Cynthia Stevenson, Jake M. Smith

Synopsis: This true-crime biopic explores the life of mother-and-son grifters Sante and Kenny Kimes, from Kenny's childhood apprenticeship in early-'80s Honolulu to Sante's murder trial in late-'90s New York City. Fortyish Sante Kimes (Judy Davis) uses her looks and her brazen disregard for the law to Read More

Swimming Upstream

Actors: Geoffrey Rush, Judy Davis, Jesse Spencer, Tim Draxl, David Hoflin

Synopsis: Based on the true story of a youth from Brisbane, Australia, who overcame family dysfunction to become a world-class athlete, director Russell Mulcahy's drama centers on young Tony Fingleton's (Jesse Spencer) relationship with his distant father, Harold (Geoffrey Rush), and the dedication it took Read More

Gaudi Afternoon

Actors: Judy Davis, Marcia Gay Harden, Lili Taylor, Juliette Lewis

Synopsis: An American abroad finds herself falling in with an eccentric group of fellow expatriates in Spain in this comedy. Cassandra (Judy Davis) is a nomadic American who finds herself stranded in Spain, where she's found temporary work translating books into English. However, Cassandra's limited Read More

The Reagans

Actors: Judy Davis, James Brolin

Synopsis: After being pulled from CBS amid a flurry of controversy, The Reagans was finally aired on Showtime and went on to earn Golden Globe nominations for its stars, James Brolin and Judy Davis. Directed by Robert Allan Ackerman (Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows) and based on a book by Carl Read More

Coast to Coast

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Judy Davis

Synopsis: Paul Mazursky's Coast to Coast features a couple whose marriage is on the rocks. Barnaby (Richard Dreyfuss) and Maxine (Judy Davis) are attempting to salvage what might be left of their broken marriage by taking a road trip together. As they stop at various places and interact with a variety of Read More

Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows

Actors: Judy Davis, Victor Garber, Hugh Laurie

Synopsis: From her gradual ascent to stardom in the 1930s to her death from a drug overdose at age 47 in 1969, former vaudeville baby Frances Ethel Gumm, aka Judy Garland, endured a string of personal and career ups and downs that continues to color her reputation as an icon whose tragedies outweighed her Read More

The Man Who Sued God

Actors: Billy Connolly, Judy Davis, Colin Friels, Bille Brown, Wendy Hughes

Synopsis: Directed by Mark Joffe, Australia's The Man Who Sued God centers around Steve (Billy Connelly), an ex-lawyer who is unable to collect insurance money for his destroyed boat. Deeming the accident an "act of God," Steve decides to sue the man at the root of his problem -- namely, God. Anna (Judy Davis Read More

A Cooler Climate

Actors: Sally Field, Judy Davis, Winston Rekert

Synopsis: Susan Seidelman directs this critically acclaimed made-for-cable TV movie based on the novel by Zena Collier. A nasty divorce leaves one-time housewife Iris Prue (Sally Field) in unstable financial circumstances, forcing her to accept a demeaning job as live-in housekeeper to the family of Read More

Dash and Lilly

Actors: Sam Shepard, Judy Davis, Bebe Neuwirth, Laurence Luckinbill, David Paymer

Synopsis: Oscar-winning actress Kathy Bates directed this made-for-cable feature inspired by the true story of one of America's greatest literary couples, Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett. Hellman (Judy Davis) was an award-winning playwright whose successes included The Children's Hour and The Little Read More

Celebrity

Actors: Kenneth Branagh, Judy Davis, Famke Janssen, Joe Mantegna, Melanie Griffith

Synopsis: Black-and-white Sven Nykvist cinematography highlights this Woody Allen comedy about fame and obscurity among Manhattan celebs. Journalist Lee Simon (Kenneth Branagh), makes a play for actress Nicole Oliver (Melanie Griffith), subject of his current story. Lee is separated from his wife Robin (Judy Davis Read More

The Echo of Thunder

Actors: Judy Davis, Jamey Sheridan, Lauren Hewett, Ernie Dingo, Emily Browning

Synopsis: When her husband's adolescent daughter arrives to live with them, an Australian farmer's wife is less than pleased. Her reaction creates considerable domestic disharmony. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Absolute Power

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Judy Davis

Synopsis: In this thriller, an aging cat burglar becomes a crusader embroiled in a deadly cat-and-mouse game involving murder and a government cover-up. Adapted by distinguished scenarist William Goldman from a novel by David Baldacci and featuring a powerful all-star cast, the story works at different Read More

Deconstructing Harry

Actors: Woody Allen, Kirstie Alley, Bob Balaban, Richard Benjamin, Billy Crystal

Synopsis: Woody Allen wrote, directed, and stars in this very dark comedy about a novelist, Harry Block, who says with admirable honesty, "I'm a guy who can't function well in life, but I can in art." So far, Harry has made his way through six psychiatrists and three marriages (one, conveniently enough Read More

Children of the Revolution

Actors: Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Richard Roxburgh, Geoffrey Rush, Rachel Griffiths

Synopsis: Children of the Revolution is an Australian film whose cinematic roots go back to the sardonic comedies of Billy Wilder. It is set in two time periods, the 1950s and 1990s, and goes back and forth between them. In the 1990s, Australian politician Joe Welch (Richard Roxburgh) is having some serious Read More

Blood and Wine

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Stephen Dorff, Jennifer Lopez, Judy Davis, Michael Caine

Synopsis: Jack Nicholson reunited with director Bob Rafelson, director of Five Easy Pieces and The King Of Marvin Gardens, for this violent, downbeat crime drama. Alex (Jack Nicholson) is a wine dealer whose business is going belly-up, along with his life. His step-son Jason (Stephen Dorff) hates him, his Read More

Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story

Actors: Glenn Close, Judy Davis, Jan Rubes, Wendy Makkena, Susan Barnes

Synopsis: Glenn Close won the "Outstanding Lead Actress" Emmy for her performance in this made-for-television drama about the rights of homosexuals in the military. Close stars as Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer, an Army medical officer with an eye on a promotion who is suddenly tossed into discharge Read More

The Ref

Actors: Denis Leary, Judy Davis, Kevin Spacey, Robert J. Steinmiller, Glynis Johns

Synopsis: Caroline and Lloyd (Judy Davis and Kevin Spacey) are a married couple constantly at each other's throats, masters at crafting acid-tongued barbs at the other's expense. Indeed, they are so obsessed with belittling each other that they never stop -- not even at gunpoint. Such is the premise of the Read More

The New Age

Actors: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Patrick Bauchau, Corbin Bernsen, Jonathan Hadary

Synopsis: A wealthy Beverly Hills husband and wife are forced to reevaluate their lives after losing their jobs in writer-director Michael Tolkin's aloof satire. Peter Witner (Peter Weller) and Katherine Witner (Judy Davis) have become so accustomed to their high-class, shallow lifestyle that they feel Read More

Husbands and Wives

Actors: Woody Allen, Judy Davis, Mia Farrow, Sydney Pollack, Juliette Lewis

Synopsis: One of Woody Allen's most seemingly biographical films, Husbands and Wives opens with upper-middle class Manhattan couple Sally (Judy Davis) and Jack (Sydney Pollack) announcing to their best friends, the Roths, that they are splitting up. Gabe Roth (Allen) and his wife Judy (Mia Farrow) are taken Read More

Where Angels Fear to Tread

Actors: Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis, Rupert Graves, Giovanni Guidelli, Barbara Jefford

Synopsis: A wealthy, upper-class British widow marries a much younger Italian man with disastrous results in this turn-of-the-century costume drama based on the E.M. Forster novel. After marrying into a wealthy family and then losing her husband, middle-aged Lilia Herriton (Helen Mirren) suffers under the Read More

On My Own

Actors: Judy Davis, Matthew Ferguson, David McIlwraith, Jan Rubes, Michele Melega

Synopsis: In this haunting and complex coming-of-age drama, a 15-year-old student at a boy's preparatory school grows up a little faster as he tries to deal with his own problems and those of his fragmented family. His parents are divorced and since the split, he has become estranged from his father. The Read More

Naked Lunch

Actors: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, Roy Scheider

Synopsis: This cinematic/literary hybrid fuses motifs from Beat writer William S. Burroughs's novel of the same name with elements of the author's biography and plenty of the cerebral alienation and biomorphic special effects fans of creepy cult director David Cronenberg have come to expect. Bill Lee (Peter Read More

Barton Fink

Actors: John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis, Michael Lerner, John Mahoney, Tony Shalhoub

Synopsis: The title character, played by John Turturro, is a Broadway playwright, based on Clifford Odets, lured to Hollywood with the promise of untold riches by a boorish studio chieftain (played by Michael Lerner as a combination of Louis B. Mayer and Harry Cohn). Despising the film capital and Read More

Impromptu

Actors: Judy Davis, Hugh Grant, Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Julian Sands

Synopsis: Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin, better known in the literary world as George Sand, not only took a man's name, but trotted around wearing pants and smoking cigars in public. No great shakes today, but in the 1800s she was perhaps the most famous (or infamous) woman in the world. One of the first Read More

One Against the Wind

Actors: Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Denholm Elliott, Anthony Higgins, Christien Anholt

Synopsis: This award-winning TV production tells the true story of a heroic woman's underground operation to spirit Allied soldiers out of Nazi-occupied France. Her name is Mary Lindell, a British-born Red Cross nurse living in France with her two teenage children, Maurice and Barbé, by Lindell's marriage Read More

Alice

Actors: Mia Farrow, Joe Mantegna, Alec Baldwin, Blythe Danner, Judy Davis

Synopsis: Woody Allen's character study of a well-kept, upscale Manhattan woman (Mia Farrow) takes the title character on a journey through a Wonderland of her own making, in which she learns some truths about herself, her relationships, and the universe in general. Alice leads a comfortable life, except Read More

Georgia

Actors: Judy Davis, John Bach, Julia Blake, Alex Menglet, Marshall Napier

Synopsis: The limitless talents of British actress Judy Davis are generously displayed throughout Georgia. Davis plays a dual role, as Nina, a brilliant attorney and (in flashbacks) Georgia, the attorney's mother. Haunted by her mother's long-ago death by drowning, Nina reopens the investigation. What she Read More

Kangaroo

Actors: Colin Friels, Judy Davis, John Walton, Julie Nihill, Hugh Keays-Byrne

Synopsis: Tim Burstall directed this adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's semi-autobiographical novel recalling his experiences in Australia in the early 1920s. The film, set at the height of World War I, begins at the English coastal home of writer Richard Somers (Colin Friels) and his German-born wife Harriet (Judy Davis Read More

High Tide

Actors: Judy Davis, Jan Adele, Claudia Karvan, Colin Friels, Frankie J. Holden, John Clayton

Synopsis: Gillian Armstrong directed this powerful and moving film containing a brilliant performance by Judy Davis. The story takes place in the small New South Wales seaside village of Eden. Davis is Lillie, who is renting a run-down trailer as she waits for her car to be repaired. One night, when Lillie Read More

The Global Assembly Line

Crew: Associate Producer

Synopsis: In an informative and shocking documentary that bangs America's dormant collective conscience on its head, director Lorraine Gray films underpaid foreign workers around the world to highlight the exploitative nature of American companies willing to pay next to nothing in wages in order to raise Read More

Rocket to the Moon

Synopsis: A middle-aged dentist who is frustrated and bored with his commonplace life looks for greater adventure. This appeared on the PBS "American Playhouse." ~ All Movie Guide Read More

A Passage to India

Actors: Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox, Alec Guinness

Synopsis: A Passage to India, director David Lean's final film (for which he also received editing credit), breaks no new ground cinematically, but remains an exquisitely assembled harkback to such earlier Lean epics as Doctor Zhivago and Ryan's Daughter. Based on the novel by E. M. Forster, the film is set Read More

The Winter of Our Dreams

Actors: Judy Davis, Bryan Brown

Synopsis: In this Australian film, the married, financially secure Rob (Bryan Brown) meets up with drug-addicted prostitute Lou (Judy Davis) and tries to help her crawl out of the dead-end life she's created for herself. However, when Rob's wife discovers who he's been spending his time with, his marriage Read More

Heatwave

Actors: Judy Davis, Richard Moir, Chris Haywood, Bill Hunter, John Gregg

Synopsis: Heatwave is the mildly interesting story of a woman's attempt to stop a redevelopment plot which she thought was the cover-up for fraud and other criminal activity. Kate (Judy Davis), through her own efforts, manages to find some evidence to support her claims and also have a romance. Davis gives Read More

Who Dares Wins

Actors: Lewis Collins, Judy Davis, Richard Widmark, Edward Woodward, Robert Webber

Synopsis: Released in the U.S. under the title The Final Option, this action thriller was produced and set in Great Britain. The British Special Air Services, an anti-terrorist group, is pitted against an organization of international terrorists who plan to take over the U.S. Embassy in London and hold Read More

A Woman Called Golda

Actors: Ingrid Bergman

Synopsis: A Woman Called Golda is a made-for-television account of the life and times of Golda Meir, Israel's powerful prime minister during the '60s and '70s. Judy Davis portrays Golda as a young woman, while Ingrid Bergman plays Meir as an older woman; Bergman won an Emmy for her performance. ~ Stephen Read More

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Actors: Ben Kingsley

Synopsis: Windsor is a peaceful town on the Thames where hardly a leaf falls to disturb the silence. And then England's most notorious mischief maker, Sir John Falstaff (Richard Griffiths), arrives from London with his hooligans -- Bardolph (Gordon Gostelow), Nym (Michael Robbins), and Pistol (Nigel Terry) Read More

Hoodwink

Actors: John Hargreaves, Judy Davis, Dennis Miller, Les Foxcroft, Wendy Strehlow

Synopsis: Hoodwink is based on the true story of an Australian con artist who briefly won the hearts of the media (if not the authorities). John Hargreaves stars as a criminal serving time in a New South Wales prison. He's not partial to the physical labor required of the convicts, so he hits upon a Read More

My Brilliant Career

Actors: Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes, Robert Grubb, Patricia Kennedy

Synopsis: Both actress Judy Davis and director Gillian Armstrong made a big splash on the international scene with this charming Australian film that examines late 19th century Australian society from the perspective of a headstrong woman who refuses to follow convention. The film charts the developing Read More

High Rolling in a Hot Corvette

Actors: Joseph Bottoms, Greg Taylor, Judy Davis, John Clayton, Wendy Hughes

Synopsis: In this Australian action comedy, Texas and Alby (Joseph Bottoms and Grigor Taylor) mostly work as roustabouts at carnivals, but they are bored with the kind of work they do and take to the road together, looking for some fun and adventure. They are picked up in a beautiful green Corvette owned by Read More