1966-08-25 ( 58 years old ) in 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.
Movies
The Toxic Avenger
2025-08-29
Gavin & Stacey: A Fond Farewell
2025-01-01
Gavin & Stacey: The Making of the Finale
2024-12-24
Person of Interest
2024-12-02
Run Rabbit Run
2024-07-18
My Massive Cock
2022-10-24
Sing 2
2021-12-01
The Clearing
2021-09-30
Gavin & Stacey: A Special Christmas
2019-12-25
Fighting with My Family
2019-02-14
Phantom Thread
2017-12-25
Brakes
2017-11-24
Morning Has Broken
2014-07-10
The Bird
2014-04-13
The Understudy
2014-03-05
Uncle Wormsley's Christmas
2012-12-25
Bad Sugar
2012-08-26
Arthur Christmas
2011-11-10
The Angina Monologues
2010-12-10
The Mighty Boosh: Journey of the Childmen
2010-11-15
Come on Eileen
2010-10-06
Four Lions
2010-05-07
Cemetery Junction
2010-04-14
Lizzie and Sarah
2010-03-20
Steve Coogan: The Inside Story
2009-12-27
Persuasion
2007-04-01
For the Love of God
2007-02-28
Born Equal
2006-12-17
Fear of Fanny
2006-10-23
Confetti
2006-05-05
AD/BC: A Rock Opera
2004-12-21
Shaun of the Dead
2004-04-09
Sex Lives of the Potato Men
2004-02-20
Love Actually
2003-09-07
Appointment with Dr. Terrible
2003-08-04
Hello, Friend
2003-02-02
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
2002-11-08
The Parole Officer
2001-08-10
Steve Coogan: The Man Who Thinks He's It
1999-10-01
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