Judy Davis (1982). In 1984, she was cast as Adela Quested in David Lean's final film "A Passage to India", an adaptation of E. M. Forster's novel, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. The film became a critics' favourite, opening to tremendous praise worldwide and "Variety" praised Davis for having "the rare gift of being able to look very plain (as the role calls for) at one moment and uncommonly beautiful at another. Likewise, "The Washington Post" wrote, "With makeup the color of smudged ivory, her pallor enhanced by the off-white linens she wears, Davis is
Judy Davis nominations. She won her first Emmy for portraying the woman who gently coaxes rigid militarywoman Glenn Close out of the closet in "", with subsequent nominations for her repressed Australian outback mother in "The Echo of Thunder" (1998), her portrayal of Lillian Hellman in "Dash and Lilly" (1999) and her frigid society matron in "A Cooler Climate" (1999). Davis earned a second Emmy for her portrayal of Judy Garland in the 2001 television biographical film "". In 2003, she earned another Emmy nomination for her interpretation of Nancy Reagan in the controversial biopic "The Reagans". In July 2006, she received