
Julia Davis
- Recitazione
- 25 agosto 1966 · 60 anni
- Guildford, Surrey, England, UK
Julia Charlotte L. Davis is an English actress, comedian, director and writer. A nine-time BAFTA TV Award nominee, she won Best Comedy Writing for Hunderby in 2013 and the 2018 British Academy Television Award for Best Scripted Comedy for Sally4Ever. She has also received two RTS Awards and three British Comedy Awards. In addition to acting in her own works, she has appeared in a variety of other British television comedies, most notably portraying Dawn Sutcliffe in Gavin & Stacey (2007–2009, 2019, 2024). Her film roles include Love Actually (2003), Cemetery Junction (2010), Four Lions (2010), and Phantom Thread (2017). Julia Davis was born in Guildford, Surrey on August 25, 1966 Her mother was a secretary, and her father a civil servant. She grew up in Guildford, Surrey, before moving at the age of 14 to Bath in Somerset. She was raised in the Church of England. After studying for a degree in English and drama at the College of Ripon and York St John, she returned to Bath working "dead-end jobs", starting a comedy double-act The Sisters of Percy with her friend Jane Roth at a local theatre group. It grew into an improv troupe with Welsh radio DJ Rob Brydon and Ruth Jones. Davis decided to become a comedian after a long illness. She secured her first comedy commission, Five Squeezy Pieces, from BBC Radio 4 in 1998. The series was an all-female sketch comedy show, with Meera Syal, Arabella Weir, Maria McErlane, and Claire Calman. She first appeared on television in 1998 in the BBC sketch show Comedy Nation. During their radio sketch series Five Squeezy Pieces, Arabella Weir introduced Davis to Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan who cast her as a regular cast member in the television sketch show Big Train (1998). Her career gained a further boost in 1998 after she sent a tape of various characters to Steve Coogan, who invited her to write for and participate in his shows during his 1998 national tour. Chris Morris, director of the Big Train pilot, cast her for his 1997–1999 radio series Blue Jam, its successor March–April 2000 TV show Jam, and Brass Eye. Davis went on to appear in many comedy television shows including I'm Alan Partridge, I Am Not an Animal, Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible, Ideal and Nathan Barley. In 2004 and 2005, Davis wrote and starred in two series of the BBC Three dark comedy Nighty Night. The show is centred on her character of peroxide "blonde" sociopathic beauty therapist Jill Tyrell. In 2015, Davis and Marc Wootton created and starred in BBC Radio 4 comedy series Couples, about couples in therapy. It was reported in 2015 that Davis had been commissioned for a new series, Robin's Test, which was later renamed Camping. In 2016, Davis wrote, directed and starred as shallow nymphomaniac "Fay" in Camping on Sky Atlantic. This was her directorial debut. At the 2017 BAFTA TV Awards, Camping was nominated for Best Scripted Comedy. In 2017, Davis was featured in the Paul Thomas Anderson film Phantom Thread as Lady Baltimore.
Titoli più noti
Filmografia46
- 2025
- 2024
- 2022
My Massive CockFilm5.8
- 2021
A Very British ScandalSerie TV6.7

The OutlawsSerie TV7.4
- 2019
- 2018
The Shivering TruthSerie TV7.5
Sally4EverSerie TV4.7
Stath Lets FlatsSerie TV6.7
- 2017

Philip K. Dick's Electric DreamsSerie TV7.0
- 2014
Inside No. 9Serie TV8.1
- 2013
PsychobitchesSerie TV6.8
It's KevinSerie TV7.2
- 2012
Uncle Wormsley's ChristmasFilm6.0
Playhouse PresentsSerie TV6.0
- 2011
Black MirrorSerie TV8.3

- 2010
Little CrackersSerie TV6.8
Four LionsFilm7.0

- 2009
10 Minute TalesSerie TV7.5
- 2007
Gavin & StaceySerie TV7.5

- 2006
Born EqualFilm5.0
Fear of FannyFilm7.1
ConfettiFilm5.4
- 2005
Nathan BarleySerie TV7.3
IdealSerie TV7.8
- 2004
AD/BC: A Rock OperaFilm6.3
I Am Not an AnimalSerie TV8.6

Sex Lives of the Potato MenFilm4.5
The Alan Clark DiariesSerie TV7.3
Nighty NightSerie TV7.7
- 2003

Hello, FriendFilm6.8
- 2002
- 2001
Dr Terrible's House of HorribleSerie TV7.0

- 2000
JamSerie TV8.1
- 1999
People Like UsSerie TV8.2
- 1998
Big TrainSerie TV7.3
- 1997
I'm Alan PartridgeSerie TV7.4




