Lindy Davies
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Lindy Davies is an Australian actress, director and drama teacher. From 1995–2007 she was the Dean of the School of Drama at the Victorian College of Arts in Melbourne.
As far as her acting career is concerned, followers of Australian cinema will recall her role in the film Malcolm alongside Colin Friels
and John Hargreaves
, but she is probably best remembered to television enthusiasts for her performance as the evil drug baroness Ruth Ballinger in Prisoner
.
She has worked as a Performance Advisor/Consultant on many films including:
Lindy Davies has written an integrated curriculum for the training of the Autonomous Artist.
She is presently writing a book on her approach to Performance called The Autonomous Actor
As far as her acting career is concerned, followers of Australian cinema will recall her role in the film Malcolm alongside Colin Friels
Colin Friels
-Background and training:Friels was born in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland. His mother was a mill worker and his father a joiner. He lived in Kilbirnie until 1963, when his family moved to Australia, arriving in Darwin, Northern Territory before settling in the Melbourne suburb of Broadmeadows...
and John Hargreaves
John Hargreaves (Australian actor)
John Hargreaves was an Australian actor. He won three Australian Film Institute Awards and was nominated six times.-Background:...
, but she is probably best remembered to television enthusiasts for her performance as the evil drug baroness Ruth Ballinger in Prisoner
Prisoner (TV series)
Prisoner is an Australian television soap opera which was set in the Wentworth Detention Centre, a fictional women's prison. The series was produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation and ran on Network Ten for 692 episodes from 27 February 1979 to 11 December 1986.The series was inspired by the 1970s...
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As Director
- Moscow Maly Theatre, Old Times.
- Wyndham's Theatre West End, Old Times (with Julie Christie Leigh Lawson and Harriet Walter).
- Theatr Clywd, Old Times (with Julie Christie and Leigh Lawson)
- Chichester Festival Theatre, Hedda GablerHedda GablerHedda Gabler is a play first published in 1890 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. The play premiered in 1891 in Germany to negative reviews, but has subsequently gained recognition as a classic of realism, nineteenth century theatre, and world drama...
(with Harriet WalterHarriet WalterDame Harriet Mary Walter, DBE is a British actress.-Personal life:She is the niece of renowned British actor Sir Christopher Lee, as the daughter of his elder sister Xandra Lee. On her father's side she is a great-great-great-granddaughter of John Walter, founder of The TimesShe was educated at...
Nicholas Le PrevostNicholas Le PrevostNicholas Le Prevost is an English actor. He was educated at Shaftesbury Grammar School, Shaftesbury, Dorset from 1957 to 1961 and at Kingswood School, Bath from 1961 to 1964...
and Phyllida LawPhyllida Law-Personal life:Law was born in Glasgow, the daughter of William and Megsie Law, who divorced after World War II. She was married to Eric Thompson from 1957 until his death in 1982. Their two children Emma and Sophie Thompson are both actresses...
), - Chichester Festival Theatre, Suzannah Andler (with Julie Christie)
- Sydney Theatre CompanySydney Theatre CompanyThe Sydney Theatre Company is one of Australia's best-known theatre companies operating from The Wharf Theatre near The Rocks area of Sydney, as well as the Sydney Theatre and the Sydney Opera House Drama Theatre....
, Three Days of Rain, A Month in the Country (Opera House), Old Times - Bell Shakespeare CompanyBell Shakespeare CompanyBell Shakespeare is an Australian theatre company specialising in the works of William Shakespeare. It was founded in 1990 by John Bell..Bell Shakespeare is Australia's only national touring theatre company. Its current practice is to tour three mainstage productions to each Australian state in...
:, As You Like ItAs You Like ItAs You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or early 1600 and first published in the folio of 1623. The play's first performance is uncertain, though a performance at Wilton House in 1603 has been suggested as a possibility...
(Opera House); - Belvoir St Company BCompany BCompany B may refer to:*Company B - a dance-pop trio.**Company B , Company B's 1987 debut album.*Company B - a theatre company.Company B - A marketing and Public Relations firm in Milwaukee, WI...
, Scenes from an Execution (nominated for a Sydney Theatre Award for Best Director) - State Theatre Company of South Australia, Room to Move
- PlayboxPlayboxPlaybox was a TV programme for pre-school children aged 2-5, which ran during the late 1980s and early 1990s in the United Kingdom on ITV and was produced by Central Independent Television. It was the first ragdoll show to be made by ITV...
, Fool for LoveFool for Love (play)Fool for Love is a play written by American playwright/actor Sam Shepard.-Plot:The "fools" in the play are battling lovers at a Mojave Desert motel. May is hiding out at said motel when an old childhood friend and old flame, Eddie. Eddie tries to convince May to come back home with him and live in... - Victorian College of the Arts, The Rover, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Women Beware Women (Middleton/Barker), The Cherry OrchardThe Cherry OrchardThe Cherry Orchard is Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's last play. It premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre 17 January 1904 in a production directed by Constantin Stanislavski. Chekhov intended this play as a comedy and it does contain some elements of farce; however, Stanislavski insisted on...
, hree Sisters/i>, LysistrataLysistrataLysistrata is one of eleven surviving plays written by Aristophanes. Originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC, it is a comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end The Peloponnesian War...
. - N.I.D.ANational Institute of Dramatic ArtThe National Institute of Dramatic Art is an Australian national training institute for students of theatre, film, and television, based in the Sydney suburb of Kensington. It is supported by the federal Office for the Arts, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. NIDA is located adjacent...
, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; ElectraElectraIn Greek mythology, Electra was an Argive princess and daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra. She and her brother Orestes plotted revenge against their mother Clytemnestra and stepfather Aegisthus for the murder of their father Agamemnon...
; Miss Sarah Sampson.
Actor trainer performance advisor/consultant
Lindy Davies has developed a unique Approach to Performance: a process which codifies the art of transformation.She has worked as a Performance Advisor/Consultant on many films including:
- Sarah Polley’s Away from Her for which Julie Christie won
- the Golden Globe AwardGolden Globe AwardThe Golden Globe Award is an accolade bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign...
for Best Actress; - the National Board of Review Award for Best Actress;
- the Critic’s Circle Award and the
- Screen Actors GuildScreen Actors GuildThe Screen Actors Guild is an American labor union representing over 200,000 film and television principal performers and background performers worldwide...
Award for Best Actress. - Julie has also been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.
- the Golden Globe Award
- Lindy also worked with Julie Christie on Neverland and Troy.
- Alan Rudolph's Afterglow; for which Julie Christie received a 1998 Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.
- Sally PotterSally PotterCharlotte Sally Potter is an English film director and screenwriter.-Career:Having left school at sixteen to become a filmmaker, Potter joined the London Film-Makers' Co-op and started making experimental short films, including Jerk and Play...
's The Tango Lesson. - Kenneth BranaghKenneth BranaghKenneth Charles Branagh is an actor and film director from Northern Ireland. He is best known for directing and starring in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays including Henry V , Much Ado About Nothing , Hamlet Kenneth Charles Branagh is an actor and film director from...
’s Hamlet with Julie Christie. - Dennis PotterDennis PotterDennis Christopher George Potter was an English dramatist, best known for The Singing Detective. His widely acclaimed television dramas mixed fantasy and reality, the personal and the social. He was particularly fond of using themes and images from popular culture.-Biography:Dennis Potter was born...
's Karaoke with Julie Christie. - Michael Whyte’s The Railway Stationman with Julie Christie.
- Pat O’Connor’s Fools of Fortune with Julie Christie.
- Australia: includes Looking For Alibrandi, Radiance, The Leaving of Liverpool, Talk, MDA
Lindy Davies has written an integrated curriculum for the training of the Autonomous Artist.
She is presently writing a book on her approach to Performance called The Autonomous Actor
Actress
- Belvoir St Company B, Scenes from an Execution (Galactea), (nominated for a Sydney Theatre Award for Best Actress)
- N.I.D.A. Company, Vassa, (Vassa) (nominated for a Sydney Theatre Award for Best Actress)
- State Theatre Company of South Australia, The SeagullThe SeagullThe Seagull is the first of what are generally considered to be the four major plays by the Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov. The Seagull was written in 1895 and first produced in 1896...
(Arkadina) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a play by Edward Albee that opened on Broadway at the Billy Rose Theater on October 13, 1962. The original cast featured Uta Hagen as Martha, Arthur Hill as George, Melinda Dillon as Honey and George Grizzard as Nick. It was directed by Alan Schneider...
(Martha), Wild Honey (Anna Petrovna). - Hunter Valley Theatre Company, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Martha), Condor Award for Best Actress.
- Playbox, Upside Down at the Bottom of the World, (Frida), World is Made of Glass (Magda), Buried Child (Haley).
- Rex Cramphorn's Actor's Development Stream, Antony and CleopatraAntony and CleopatraAntony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written sometime between 1603 and 1607. It was first printed in the First Folio of 1623. The plot is based on Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Lives and follows the relationship between Cleopatra and Mark Antony...
,(Cleopatra) BritannicusBritannicusTiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus was the son of the Roman emperor Claudius and his third wife Valeria Messalina. He became the heir-designate of the empire at his birth, less than a month into his father's reign. He was still a young boy at the time of his mother's downfall and Claudius'...
(Agrippina), HamletHamletThe Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...
(Gertrude) Not Suitable for Adults (Kate). - La MamaLa MamaLa Mama may refer to:* La Mama - a German disco group* La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in East Village, Manhattan, New York City, founded 1961* La Mama Theatre in Carlton, Victoria, Australia, founded 1967...
, Mishka and Nomagava.(Mishka) - The Pram Factory, Marvellous Melbourne; Marvellous Melbourne II; Chicago Chicago; Don's PartyDon's PartyDon's Party is a 1971 play by David Williamson set during the 1969 Australian federal election. The film based on the play was entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival.-Plot:...
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