Judith Anderson's biography
Judith Anderson is 95 years old stage actor born at Adelaide. She was born on Wednesday 10th of February 1897. According to year of birth 1897 she belongs to Lost Generation. Birthday on 10th of February means she is Aquarius. Aquarius is an Airy sign. They are smart thinkers, social, communicative, independent and intelligent people.
She is citizen of Australia. Her primary profession is to be stage actor. You can know her also as film actor. She is recently known as television actor.
Judith Anderson's schools
Detailed informations about her schools
- Attended Norwood Morialta High School in Adelaide, South Australia, where her education ended before graduation. She moved to California, but without success for four months, then she moved to New York, with an equal lack of success.
Judith Anderson's career
Her main focus is to be stage actor.
How did Judith Anderson die
She died on on Friday 3rd of January 1992 when he was 95 years old at Santa Barbara. Judith Andersons death was caused by pneumonia. It happend like natural causes.
Awards and competitions
Judith Anderson's Awards
- She was awarded Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1960 Queen's New Years Honours List for her services to the performing arts.
- Received the Women's International Center (WIC) Living Legacy Award (1986).
- She was awarded the AC (Companion of the Order of Australia) in the 1991 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to the performing arts. The ceremony took place on June 10, 1991.
- She has appeared in four films that have been nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award: Rebecca (1940), Kings Row (1942), The Ten Commandments (1956) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), with only the first being a winner in the category.
- A top classical actress, her Broadway appearances include "The Dove", "Stange Interlude", "As You Desire Me", "Hamlet" (with John Gielgud and Lillian Gish) and "Macbeth", which she repeated twice on television wining an Emmy Award both times.
- She was awarded an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role as the housekeeper Mrs. Danvers in Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940).
- An adaptation of Euripides' tragedy "Medea" written especially for her won the New York Drama Critics Award and was also produced for television.
Judith Anderson's Nominations
- She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for work Rebecca in 1940
What Judith Anderson has done for a first time
- She has appeared in four films that have been nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award: Rebecca (1940), Kings Row (1942), The Ten Commandments (1956) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), with only the first being a winner in the category.
Judith Anderson's quotes
- I have not myself a very serene temperament.
- All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically, nature is my genius loci, or the place where my spirit resides.
- I am inspired by many mediums and use them to express varied aspects of my philosophies and life observations.
- Personally, I believe it is important for mankind to respect nature - for homeostasis - and I have volunteered with environmental organizations, I do not attempt to have an environmental leaning regarding my artwork.
- There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.
- I may play demons, but I've never played a wimp!
- When I do a part, it's never hard work because I love it.
- If you're born in the theater and wedded to it, the lights go down and your pulse goes up and your stomach won't stay still, and there's nothing like it.
- I know it's fashionable now to say that Mrs. Danvers in Rebecca was a spiteful lesbian. Spiteful, undoubtedly. But whoever in the picture called her a lesbian? Tell me that?
- [in 1924] There are so many strange, alluring, hateful, lovable, weird, tender, ugly women of history and of life. I want to delineate all of them, or as many of them as my life span will permit.
Judith Anderson's body shape
Lets describe how Judith Anderson looks. We will focus on her body shape. Body build is average.