Judith Anderson

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1897-02-10 (95 years old)

Deathday

1992-01-03

Place of Birth

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Judith Anderson

Biography

Dame Frances Margaret Anderson, AC, DBE (February 10, 1897 – January 3, 1992), known professionally as Judith Anderson, was an Australian actress who had a successful career in stage, film and television. Considered one of the greatest classical stage actors of the 20th century, she has two Emmy Awards and a Tony Award to her name, as well as a nomination for a Grammy Award and an Academy Award each. She began her acting career in Australia but her ambition brought her to New York in 1918. She established herself as one of the greatest theatrical actresses and was a major star on Broadway throughout the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. Her notable st...

Acting

1984

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

as Vulcan High Priestess

1940

Rebecca

as Mrs. Danvers

1958

1944

Laura

as Ann Treadwell

1945

1947

The Red House

as Ellen Morgan

1975

Inn of the Damned

as Caroline Straulle

1947

Pursued

as Mrs. Callum

1953

Salome

as Queen Herodias

1950

The Furies

as Flo Burnett

1933

Blood Money

as Ruby Darling

1970

A Man Called Horse

as Buffalo Cow Head

1946

The Diary of a Chambermaid

as Madame Lanlaire

1943

Stage Door Canteen

as Judith Anderson

1960

Cinderfella

as Wicked Stepmother

1942

Kings Row

as Harriet Gordon

1943

Edge of Darkness

as Gerd Bjarnesen

1946

Specter of the Rose

as Madame La Sylph

1947

Tycoon

as Miss Ellen Braithwaite

1941

1940

Forty Little Mothers

as Madame Granville

2018

1969

The File on Devlin

as Elizabeth Devlin

1961

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

as 'Rebecca' (archive footage) (uncredited)

1959

Medea

as Medea

1986

Impure Thoughts

as The Sister of Purgatory (voice)

1973

The Borrowers

as Aunt Sophie

1983

Medea

as Nurse

1961

Don't Bother to Knock

as Maggie Shoemaker

1964

Macbeth

as Lady Macbeth

1941

Free and Easy

as Lady Joan Culver

1991

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

as actress 'Laura' (archive footage) (uncredited)

1974

1959

A Christmas Festival

as Narrator of the final offering

1968

Elizabeth the Queen

as Queen Elizabeth

1954

Macbeth

as Lady Macbeth

2003

The Making of The Ten Commandments

as Self (archive footage)

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