# List of Judy Davis performances

The film career of Judy Davis spans over four decades and includes credits in both film and television. Davis first garnered acclaim for her performance in the period drama My Brilliant Career (1979), which earned her two BAFTA Awards. She garnered international attention for her performance in A Passage to India (1984), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
In 1990, Davis appeared in Alice, directed by Woody Allen, followed by a supporting role in David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch, as well as Joel Coen's Barton Fink (both 1991). She subsequently starred in Allen's drama Husbands and Wives (1992), which saw her nominated for the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, as well as a BAFTA for Best Actress. She subsequently co-starred with Glenn Close in the television drama film Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995) before reuniting with Allen to appear in Deconstructing Harry (1997) and Celebrity (1998).
Davis starred as Lillian Hellman in the Kathy Bates-directed television film Dash and Lilly (1999), followed by Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001), a critically acclaimed miniseries in which she portrayed Judy Garland. She again portrayed another real-life character, Nancy Reagan, in the television film The Reagans (2003). Subsequent film roles include the romantic comedy The Break-Up (2006), Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette (2006), and The Dressmaker. In 2017, Davis co-starred with Jessica Lange and Susan Sarandon on the network series Feud, in which she portrayed journalist Hedda Hopper.

## Film

Key :
| † | Denotes films works that have not yet been released |
| Year | Title | Role | Director(s) | Notes |
| 1977 | High Rolling | Lynn | Igor Auzins | Alternate title: High Rolling in a Hot Corvette |
| 1979 | My Brilliant Career | Sybylla Melvyn | Gillian Armstrong | |
| 1981 | Hoodwink | Sarah | Claude Whatham | |
| 1981 | Winter of Our Dreams | Lou | John Duigan | |
| 1982 | Heatwave | Kate Dean | Phillip Noyce | |
| 1982 | Who Dares Wins | Frankie Leith | Ian Sharp | Alternate title: The Final Option |
| 1984 | A Passage to India | Adela Quested | David Lean | |
| 1986 | Kangaroo | Harriet Somers | Tim Burstall | |
| 1987 | High Tide | Lilli | Gillian Armstrong | |
| 1988 | Georgia | Nina Bailley/Georgia White | Ben Lewin | |
| 1990 | Alice | Vicki | Woody Allen | |
| 1991 | Barton Fink | Audrey Taylor | Joel Coen | |
| 1991 | Impromptu | George Sand | James Lapine | |
| 1991 | Where Angels Fear to Tread | Harriet Harriton | Charles Sturridge | |
| 1991 | Naked Lunch | Joan Lee/Joan Frost | David Cronenberg | |
| 1991 | On My Own | The Mother | Antonio Tibaldi | |
| 1992 | Husbands and Wives | Sally | Woody Allen | |
| 1993 | Dark Blood | Buffy | George Sluizer | Incomplete and unreleased until 2012 |
| 1994 | The Ref | Caroline Chasseur | Ted Demme | Alternate title: Hostile Hostages |
| 1994 | The New Age | Katherine Witner | Michael Tolkin | |
| 1996 | Children of the Revolution | Joan Fraser | Peter Duncan | |
| 1997 | Deconstructing Harry | Lucy | Woody Allen | |
| 1997 | Absolute Power | Gloria Russell | Clint Eastwood | |
| 1997 | Blood and Wine | Suzanne Gates | Bob Rafelson | |
| 1998 | Celebrity | Robin Simon | Woody Allen | |
| 2001 | The Man Who Sued God | Anna Redmond | Mark Joffe | |
| 2001 | Gaudi Afternoon | Cassandra Reilly | Susan Seidelman | |
| 2003 | Swimming Upstream | Dora Fingleton | Russell Mulcahy | |
| 2006 | The Break-Up | Marilyn Dean | Peyton Reed | |
| 2006 | Marie Antoinette | Comtesse de Noailles | Sofia Coppola | |
| 2011 | The Eye of the Storm | Dorothy de Lascabanes | Fred Schepisi | |
| 2012 | To Rome with Love | Phyllis | Woody Allen | |
| 2013 | The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet | Jibsen | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | |
| 2015 | The Dressmaker | Molly Dunnage | Jocelyn Moorhouse | |
| 2021 | Nitram | "Mum" | Justin Kurzel | |

## Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1980 | Water Under the Bridge | Carrie Mazzini | Miniseries |
| 1982 | A Woman Called Golda | Golda Myerson/Meir | Television film |
| 1983 | The Merry Wives of Windsor | Mistress Ford | BBC Television Shakespeare |
| 1985 | The Mike Walsh Show | Guest - Herself | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1986 | Rocket to the Moon | Cleo Singer | American Playhouse |
| 1991 | One Against the Wind | Mary Lindell | Television film |
| 1995 | Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story | Dianne | Television film |
| 1998 | The Echo of Thunder | Gladwyn Ritchie | Television film |
| 1999 | Dash and Lilly | Lillian Hellman | Television film |
| 1999 | A Cooler Climate | Paula Tanner | Television film |
| 2001 | Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows | Judy Garland | Miniseries |
| 2003 | The Reagans | Nancy Reagan | Television film |
| 2003 | Coast to Coast | Maxine Pierce | Television film |
| 2006 | A Little Thing Called Murder | Sante Kimes | Television film |
| 2007 | The Starter Wife | Joan McAllister | Miniseries |
| 2007 | Masters of Science Fiction: A Clean Escape | Dr. Deanna Evans | 2 episodes |
| 2011 | Page Eight | Jill Tankard | Television film |
| 2009 | Diamonds | Senator Joan Cameron | 2 episodes |
| 2014 | Salting the Battlefield | Jill Tankard | Television film |
| 2017 | Feud: Bette and Joan | Hedda Hopper | 8 episodes |
| 2018 | Mystery Road | Emma James | 6 episodes |
| 2020 | Ratched | Betsy Bucket | Main role |
| 2022 | Roar | Rosey | Episode: "The Woman Who Ate Photographs" |