Judith Anderson was born in Adelaide, Australia, on February 10, 1898.
At the age of 17 he began to perform in the theaters of the city of Sydney, Australia, beginning to stand out for his dramatic performances and having very good reviews in that city.
In 1918, he moved to New York City, where he acted in the play “Electra is fine with mourning”, a play that was on the billboard for many years and in which she played the role of Lavinia.
Shortly after, she played the role of Gertrude, in William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” In that same year he also took part in “Seagull” Y “Three sisters “.
In 1939, director Alfred Hitchcock saw her act in one of the plays in which Judith was taking part, and decided to hire her to play the role of Mrs. Danvers, the perverse governess in the film Rebecca, an interpretation that has become history and for which she was nominated for an Oscar for best supporting actress.
Within the 1940s, Judith Anderson would come up with countless roles to play in many movies. Thus, the prestigious director Otto Preminger chose her to interpret the film Laura. Other films of his from this decade are “The strange love of Martha Ivers”, “The Spectrum of Rose” or “The Diary of a Chambermaid”, among other titles.
Meanwhile, the actress continued to achieve success in the world of theater, obtaining a Tony Award for Performance for her role in the classic tragedy “Medea”.
The 1950s was especially remarkable for Judith Anderson, since from then on she would not only work in film and theater, but also on television, the new medium, and in film she continued to intervene in such memorable films like The Ten Commandments, a superproduction by Cecil B. DeMille, along with actors of the stature of Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Yvonne De Carlo, Anne Baxter or Edgard G. Robinson, among others.
In that same decade, she appeared in the film, The Cat on the Tin Roof, in the role of Ida Pollitt, along with the actors Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor, among others.
In the 60s and 70s he focused more on the world of theater, winning an Emmy award, parking television and film in a certain way, although he continued to intervene in films such as A man called a horse, playing the role of the mother of Richard Harris.
In the 80s he intervened in “Star Trek” and in the television series “Saint Barbara”.
Judith Anderson died on January 3, 1992, in Santa Barbara, California, at the age of 94.