My Brilliant Career was beautifully directed, but I had a bit of trouble with myself in it. It was a silly script, based on a book this 16-year-old girl wrote.

She co-starred with actor Kevin Spacey in the 1994 comedy film The Ref portraying a married couple whose relationship is on the rocks with actor-comedian Denis Leary as their marriage counsellor. In 1990 Judy Davis played a cameo in Woody Allen's Alice. In 1978 Judy Davis appeared in Visions by Louis Nowra at the Paris Theatre Company in Sydney.

She has won many acting awards including two Golden Globe awards three Emmy awards two BAFTA awards and seven AFI Awards. She has also been nominated twice for an Academy Award. Judy Davis (born 23 April 1955) is an Australian actress best known for her roles in Husbands and Wives Barton Fink A Passage to India and in the TV miniseries Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows.