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Dame Judith Anderson passed away on January 3, 1992, 38 days from what would have been her 95th birthday on February 10; her body was cremated.

She was awarded Companion of the Order of Australia in the 1991 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to the performing arts.

Received the Women's International Center (WIC) Living Legacy Award (1986).

Living in Santa Barbara in her later years, she also had a successful stint on the soap opera Santa Barbara (1984) and was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award in 1984.

In the same year, at age 87, she appeared in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) as the High Priestess, and was nominated for a Saturn Award for that role.

She appeared in the television version of Medea (1983) in the supporting character of the Nurse.

Anderson was awarded Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1960 Queen's New Year's Honours List for her services to the performing arts.

Her remarkable performance in a supporting role in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) fit in a stellar acting ensemble under director Richard Brooks.

The first and perhaps the only actress to win two Emmy Awards for playing the same role (Lady Macbeth) in two separate television productions of the same play, the Hallmark Hall of Fame production of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" on Macbeth (1954) and Macbeth (1960), with the same leading actor, Maurice Evans.

Anderson's long association with Euripides's "Medea" began with her acclaimed Tony Award-winning 1948 stage performance in the title role.

She worked with director Otto Preminger in Laura (1944), then with René Clair in And Then There Were None (1945).

Anderson made a film career as a supporting character actress in several significant films including Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940), for which she was Oscar nominated for Best Supporting Actress.

Anderson made her Hollywood film debut under director Rowland Brown in a supporting role in Blood Money (1933). Her striking, not conventionally attractive features were complemented with her powerful presence, mastery of timing and an effortless style.

There she established herself as one of the greatest theatrical actresses and was a major star on Broadway throughout the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.

Her notable stage works included the role of Lady Macbeth, which she played first in the 1920s, and gave an Emmy Award-winning television performance in Macbeth (1960).

She began her acting career in Australia before moving to New York in 1918.

Dame Judith Anderson was born Frances Margaret Anderson on February 10, 1897 in Adelaide, South Australia.