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![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: April 23, 1955 in Perth, Australia Biography:Known for her intense intelligence and the range of unconventional characters she has brought to life, Australian actress "Judy Davis" has had a fairly brilliant career. Born in Perth, Western Australia, on April 23, 1955, "Davis" rebelled against her Catholic upbringing by leaving home at the age of 17 to join a rock band, which toured across Asia for six months. Upon her return to Australia, she soon gave up her singing career to attend the Western Australia Institute of Technology and then concentrated on another branch of performing at the National Institute of Dramatic Art. At NIDA she trained with the likes of "Mel Gibson", with whom she starred in a school production of Romeo and Juliet.
In her subsequent stage work, "Davis" gravitated toward characters whose significant traits alternated between steel-like strength and vacillating vulnerability: She played the title roles in Lulu and Piaf.... Full Biography
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