Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 19, 1970
Place of Birth
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Credits
56 titles
Essie Davis
Biography
Essie Davis is an Australian actress. Born and raised in Hobart, Tasmania, she is the daughter of locally famed artist George Davis. She emerged from the Old Nick Company at the University of Tasmania in the late 1980s and has gone on to appear in Hollywood movies. She is a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Sydney. Her career started after her role in the all Australian movie Dad and Dave: On Our Selection (1995), also starring other prestigious actors such as Geoffrey Rush, Leo McKern, and Joan Sutherland. Her most famous movie roles are in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, Richard Flanagan's 1998 Tasmanian film The Sound of One Hand Clapping, and Girl with a Pearl Earring. In 2003 she won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress for her UK performance in the Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire. In 2004 she starred in a Broadway production of Tom Stoppard's Jumpers, for which she earned a Tony nomination. In 2005 she appeared as Mrs. Nellie Lovett in the BBC production of Sweeney Todd with Ray Winstone. In the 2008 film Hey, Hey, It's Esther Blueburger she plays Esther's controlling mother.
Known For
Filmography
Alien: Earth
Dame Sylvia
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Lynette Maison
Apple Cider Vinegar
Natalie Dal-Bello
One Day
Alison
Faraway Downs
Cath Carney
Fungi: The Web of Life
Narrator (voice)
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
Nancy Bradley
Nitram
Helen
The Justice of Bunny King
Bunny King
Babyteeth
Anna
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
Phryne Fisher
True History of the Kelly Gang
Ellen Kelly
Emu Runner
Thanks
Lambs of God
Sister Iphigenia
The Last Post
Martha Franklin
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
Vera Herrick
The White Princess
Elizabeth Woodville
Assassin's Creed
Mary Lynch
Mindhorn
Patricia Deville
They Call Him Mister Babadook: The Making of The Babadook
Self
The Babadook
Amelia Vanek
A Poet in New York
Caitlin Thomas
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
Phryne Fisher
The Slap
Anouk
Burning Man
Karen
Cloudstreet
Dolly Pickles
Game of Thrones
Lady Crane
South Solitary
Alma Stanley
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
Marella (voice)
The Wedding Party
Jane
Australia
Katherine
Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger
Grace Blueburger
Charlotte's Web
Mrs. Arable
The Silence
Juliet Moore
Sweeney Todd
Mrs Lovett
Isolation
Orla
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Catharina Bolnes Vermeer
The Matrix Revolutions
Maggie
Code 46
Doctor
After the Deluge
Beth
After the Deluge
Beth
The Matrix Reloaded
Maggie
The Pact
Helene Davis
Young Lions
Julie Morgan
The Sound of One Hand Clapping
Jean
Kings in Grass Castles
Mary Costello
The Ripper
Evelyn Bookman
River Street
Wendy Davis
The Two-Wheeled Time Machine
Young alice
Blackrock
Det. Gilhooley