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.
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 stage works included the role of Lady Macbeth, which she played first in the 1920s, and gave an Emmy Award-winning television performance in Macbeth (1960). Anderson's long association with Euripides's "Medea" began with her acclaimed Tony Award-winning 1948 stage performance in the title role. She appeared in the television version of Medea (1983) in the supporting character of the Nurse.
Anderson made her Hollywood film debut under director Rowland Brown in a supporting role in Blood Money (1933). Her striking, not conventionally attractive features were complemented with her powerful presence, mastery of timing and an effortless style. Anderson made a film career as a supporting character actress in several significant films including Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940), for which she was Oscar nominated for Best Supporting Actress. She worked with director Otto Preminger in Laura (1944), then with René Clair in And Then There Were None (1945). Her remarkable performance in a supporting role in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) fit in a stellar acting ensemble under director Richard Brooks.
Anderson was awarded Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1960 Queen's New Year's Honours List for her services to the performing arts. Living in Santa Barbara in her later years, she also had a successful stint on the soap opera Santa Barbara (1984) and was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award in 1984. In the same year, at age 87, she appeared in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) as the High Priestess, and was nominated for a Saturn Award for that role. She was awarded Companion of the Order of Australia in the 1991 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to the performing arts. Anderson died at age 94 of pneumonia on January 3, 1992 in Santa Barbara, California.
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Filmography (Movies)
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:27/07/2018
The Making of The Ten Commandments
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:23/09/2003
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Character:actress 'Laura' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Release Date:28/10/1991
Impure Thoughts
Character:The Sister of Purgatory (voice)
Release Date:25/11/1986
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Character:Vulcan High Priestess
Release Date:01/06/1984
Medea
Character:Nurse
Release Date:01/01/1983
Inn of the Damned
Character:Caroline Straulle
Release Date:13/11/1975
The Underground Man
Character:Mrs. Snow
Release Date:06/05/1974
The Borrowers
Character:Aunt Sophie
Release Date:14/12/1973
A Man Called Horse
Character:Buffalo Cow Head
Release Date:01/05/1970
The File on Devlin
Character:Elizabeth Devlin
Release Date:21/11/1969
Elizabeth the Queen
Character:Queen Elizabeth
Release Date:31/01/1968
The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre
Character:Paulina
Release Date:21/10/1964
Macbeth
Character:Lady Macbeth
Release Date:16/03/1964
Don't Bother to Knock
Character:Maggie Shoemaker
Release Date:28/05/1961
Cinderfella
Character:Wicked Stepmother
Release Date:18/12/1960
A Christmas Festival
Character:Narrator of the final offering
Release Date:13/12/1959
The Moon and Sixpence
Character:Tiare
Release Date:30/10/1959
Medea
Character:Medea
Release Date:12/10/1959
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Character:Big Momma
Release Date:29/08/1958
The Ten Commandments
Character:Memnet
Release Date:05/10/1956
Macbeth
Character:Lady Macbeth
Release Date:28/11/1954
Salome
Character:Queen Herodias
Release Date:24/03/1953
The Furies
Character:Flo Burnett
Release Date:22/07/1950
Tycoon
Character:Miss Ellen Braithwaite
Release Date:27/12/1947
Pursued
Character:Mrs. Callum
Release Date:05/03/1947
The Red House
Character:Ellen Morgan
Release Date:04/02/1947
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Character:Mrs. Ivers
Release Date:19/08/1946
Specter of the Rose
Character:Madame La Sylph
Release Date:05/07/1946
The Diary of a Chambermaid
Character:Madame Lanlaire
Release Date:15/02/1946
And Then There Were None
Character:Emily Brent
Release Date:31/10/1945
Laura
Character:Ann Treadwell
Release Date:11/10/1944
Stage Door Canteen
Character:Judith Anderson
Release Date:24/06/1943
Edge of Darkness
Character:Gerd Bjarnesen
Release Date:09/04/1943
Kings Row
Character:Harriet Gordon
Release Date:02/02/1942
All Through the Night
Character:Madame
Release Date:10/01/1942
Lady Scarface
Character:Slade
Release Date:26/09/1941
Free and Easy
Character:Lady Joan Culver
Release Date:28/02/1941
Forty Little Mothers
Character:Madame Granville
Release Date:26/04/1940
Rebecca
Character:Mrs. Danvers
Release Date:23/03/1940
Blood Money
Character:Ruby Darling
Release Date:17/11/1933
Television Appearances
Santa Barbara
Character:Minx Lockridge
DuPont Show of the Month
Character:Marquesa de Montemayor
Wagon Train
Character:Felizia Kingdom
Tony Awards
Character:Self - Nominee
Climax!
Character:Rachel
The Motorola Television Hour
Character:Alicia
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character:Lady Macbeth
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character:
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character:The Prioress
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character:Elizabeth Devlin
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character:Queen Elizabeth I
The Ed Sullivan Show
Character:Self
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