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Judy Davis is a Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning Australian actress who will star as "Margot," a villain and the widow of a notorious terrorist, in 24: Live Another Day. Initially described as a "fierce" German arms dealer in press releases, the character description was later corrected, as the role had evolved during production.

Born in Perth, Western Australia, Davis was educated at Loreto Convent and the Western Australian Institute of Technology, graduating from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1977. Since 1984, she has been married to actor Colin Friels, with whom she has a son, Jack, and a daughter, Charlotte.

Davis first came to prominence for her role as Sybylla Melvyn in the 1979 coming-of-age saga My Brilliant Career, for which she earned a BAFTA Award for Best Actress and Best Newcomer. Her international film career began with her role as Golda Meir in the TV movie A Woman Called Golda in 1981, followed by a role as a terrorist in Who Dares Wins in 1982. In 1984, Davis earned her first Academy Award nomination for her leading role in David Lean's A Passage to India, based on the novel by E.M. Forster. Davis is one of few actors in 24 to receive an Oscar nomination, along with Shohreh Aghdashloo, James Cromwell, John Hawkes, Dennis Hopper, Mare Winningham, and Jon Voight. Her second nomination, this time for Best Supporting Actress, came in 1991 for her role in Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives. Davis has since appeared in numerous films directed by Allen, including Deconstructing Harry (1997), Celebrity (1998), and To Rome With Love (2012, with Dominic Comperatore).

Davis' notable film roles since the 1990s include the Coen Brothers' Barton Fink (1991), David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch (1991, with Louis Ferreira, Julian Sands, and Peter Weller), Impromptu (1991, with Julian Sands), The Ref (1994), Children of the Revolution (1996), Absolute Power (1997, with Dennis Haysbert and Penny Johnson Jerald), The Break-Up (2006), and The Eye of the Storm (2011).

In television, Davis has earned a total of nine Emmy Award nominations, winning three for her roles in Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995, with Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001), and her starring role in The Starter Wife (2007, opposite Chris Diamantopoulos). Other television work includes One Against the Wind (1991), The Echo of Thunder (1998), Dash and Lilly (1999, with Zeljko Ivanek), A Cooler Climate (1999, with Paul McGillion, Carly Pope, and Rick Ravanello), The Reagans (2003, with Zeljko Ivanek and Bill Smitrovich), A Little Thing Called Murder (2006), and Page Eight (2011).

Throughout her career, Davis has received or been nominated for the Academy Award, Emmy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA Award, Satellite Award, and numerous others.