Judy Buxton (born 1950 in Croydon), is an English actress.
After graduating from the Rose Bruford drama school Buxton worked initially as a speech and drama teacher. She joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1979, where she played principal roles until 1982. Her “memorable...and exceptional” performance of Iphigenia in The Greeks and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet were particularly notable. Time magazine critic T.E. Kalem wrote of her “unforgettable” portrayal of Iphigenia: “...as Buxton reaches the heartbreaking conclusion that the one life she has to give for Hellas is the noblest life to have lived, she radiates a great and unforgettable purity of spirit.”
She later worked mainly in television, playing Ruth in the television comedy On the Up, nurse Katy Shaw in General Hospital and Susan Protheroe in 1983's production of By The Sword Divided. In 2006 she was in the cast of a well-received UK touring production of Noel Coward’s Star Quality.
Buxton is married to Jeffrey Holland, best known as Spike in Hi-de-Hi!.
She was a speech and drama teacher.
