Judy Morris

Judy Morris is an Australian character actress, screenwriter and director who began performing as a child, making her first appearance at ten in a Family Theater television episode and later appearing on American shows such as The Loretta Young Show and The Chevy Mystery Show. Born in Queensland, she returned to Australia and worked steadily in television from 1967, including Bellbird, Division 4, Matlock Police and Certain Women. Her film work includes The Plumber (1979), in which she had top billing as Jill Cowper, Phar Lap (1983) as Bea Davis, and Razorback (1984), and she won the 1973 Australian Film Industry award for best actress in a lead role for Libido: The Child. She later wrote and directed Luigi's Ladies, co-wrote Babe: Pig in the City and Happy Feet, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and brought her an Annie Award nomination, and wrote The Eye of the Storm.