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
Peggy Su! Peggy Su! Peggy Su! is a 1998 film written by Anglo-Chinese playwright Kevin Wong. His own experience and background being the son of Chinese immigrants working in the laundry business was used. It was directed by Trinidadian Frances-Anne Solomon who had previously worked on "What My Mother Told Me" in 1994 and "Bideshi" in 1996. This romantic comedy set in Liverpool in 1962. It is about the Chinese community there and 19-year-old Peggy who lives above a family laundry business with her brother and his wife. it centers on Peggy played by Pamela Oei, her attempts to find a husband