Judith Anderson
Dame Judith Anderson ( born February 10, 1897 in Adelaide, South Australia, † January 3, 1992 in Santa Barbara, California ) was an Australian actress.
Life
After she has worked as an actress in Australia, she went to New York in 1918 and worked primarily as a stage actress. She played 1928 Nina Leeds in Strange Interlude and 1932 Eugene O'Neill O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra Lavinia. As highlights of her stage career Gertrude apply with John Gielgud as Hamlet in 1936, the Lady Macbeth in London (1937) and New York (1941 ) production of Macbeth and the title role of Robinson Jeffers Medea in 1947. She managed the curiosity, two Emmy Awards for the same role (Lady Macbeth) in two different productions of Macbeth to receive.
The major film roles in her career were the representation of the morbidly jealous Mrs. Danvers in Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca and the role of suspicious aunt Ann Treadwell in Laura. In 1960 she became Dame Commander of the British Empire.
Most recently, she lived in Santa Barbara, where in 1992, died of pneumonia at the age of 94 years.