Essie Davis
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.
Fotos
Películas (37)
Fungi: The Web of Life
2023 · Narrator (voice)
Nitram
2021 · Helen
The Justice of Bunny King
2021 · Bunny King
Babyteeth
2020 · Anna
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
2020 · Phryne Fisher, Associate Producer
True History of the Kelly Gang
2019 · Ellen Kelly
Emu Runner
2019 · Thanks
Assassin's Creed
2016 · Mary Lynch
Mindhorn
2016 · Patricia Deville
They Call Him Mister Babadook: The Making of The Babadook
2015 · Self
The Babadook
2014 · Amelia Vanek
A Poet in New York
2014 · Caitlin Thomas
Burning Man
2011 · Karen
South Solitary
2010 · Alma Stanley
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
2010 · Marella (voice)
The Wedding Party
2010 · Jane
Australia
2008 · Katherine
Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger
2008 · Grace Blueburger
Charlotte's Web
2006 · Mrs. Arable
The Silence
2006 · Juliet Moore
Sweeney Todd
2006 · Mrs Lovett
Isolation
2005 · Orla
Girl with a Pearl Earring
2003 · Catharina Bolnes Vermeer
The Matrix Revolutions
2003 · Maggie
Code 46
2003 · Doctor
After the Deluge
2003 · Beth
The Matrix Reloaded
2003 · Maggie
The Pact
2003 · Helene Davis
The Sound of One Hand Clapping
1998 · Jean
The Ripper
1997 · Evelyn Bookman
River Street
1997 · Wendy Davis
The Two-Wheeled Time Machine
1997 · Young alice
Blackrock
1997 · Det. Gilhooley
Lilian's Story
1996 · Zara
Dad and Dave: On Our Selection
1995
The Custodian
1994 · Jilly
Unspeakable
· Judith
Series (19)
Alien: Planeta Tierra
2025 · Dame Sylvia
El camino estrecho al norte profundo
2025 · Lynette Maison
Vinagre de manzana
2025 · Natalie Dal-Bello
Siempre el mismo día
2024 · Alison
Faraway Downs
2023 · Cath Carney
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
2022 · Nancy Bradley
Lambs of God
2019 · Sister Iphigenia
The Last Post
2017 · Martha Franklin
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
2017 · Vera Herrick
The White Princess
2017 · Elizabeth Woodville
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
2012 · Phryne Fisher
The Slap
2011 · Anouk
Cloudstreet
2011 · Dolly Pickles
Juego De Tronos
2011 · Lady Crane
After the Deluge
2003 · Beth
Young Lions
2002 · Julie Morgan
Kings in Grass Castles
1998 · Mary Costello
Halifax f.p.
1994 · Alison Blount
Play School
1966 · Self