Judy Buxton

Ursula Westerby

Judy trained at the Rose Bruford College and started her acting career in repertory in Chesterfield. She has since worked extensively in both theatre in television.

Her West End stage credits include Baggage and A Murder Is Announced both at the Vaudeville Theatre. She also played in The Ghost Train at the Old Vic, School For Scandal playing ‘Lady Teazle’ opposite Sir Donald Sinden at the Haymarket, Last of the Red Hot Lovers at the Strand and ‘Mary Smith’ in Run For Your Wife at the Whitehall.

She made her debut with the Royal Shakespeare Company as ‘Iphigenia’ in John Barton’s acclaimed production of The Greeks at the Aldwych and then went on to play ‘Juliet’ in Romeo and Juliet at Stratford-upon-Avon. Whilst there she also played ‘Jessica’ in The Merchant of Venice, the ‘Sweet Girl’ in La Ronde and ‘principal boy’ in the RSC’s pantomime The Swansdown Gloves. She has worked at the Vienna’s English Theatre in Harold Pinter’s The Lover which transferred to the Young Vic. She also toured the Far and Middle East in several different plays for Derek Nimmo’s Dinner Theatre.

She has worked extensively with Ray Cooney in many of his productions and is glad to add There Goes the Bride to her list.

Her many televisions include By the Sword Divided, Lovejoy, Bergerac, Blake’s Seven, Diary of a Nobody, Rising Damp, Next of Kin and three series as Dennis Waterman’s wife ‘Ruth’ in On the Up.

Films include The Big Sleep, The Likely Lads, Aces High and Get Real.

This will be Judy’s third visit to Vienna’s English Theatre having first appeared in 1976 in The Constant Wife with Adele Leigh and then in 1987 in Harold Pinter’s The Lover with Peter McEnery, part of a double bill with A Slight Ache. She is delighted to be back again in this beautiful theatre.