Essie Davis
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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
Credits
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
as Maggie
The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
as Maggie
Assassin's Creed (2016)
as Mary Lynch
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)
as Marella (voice)
The Babadook (2014)
as Amelia Vanek
Charlotte's Web (2006)
as Mrs. Arable
Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
as Catharina Bolnes Vermeer
Australia (2008)
as Katherine
Code 46 (2003)
as Doctor
True History of the Kelly Gang (2019)
as Ellen Kelly
Babyteeth (2020)
as Anna
Nitram (2021)
as Helen
Mindhorn (2016)
as Patricia Deville
Burning Man (2011)
as Karen
Sweeney Todd (2006)
as Mrs Lovett
South Solitary (2010)
as Alma Stanley
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears (2020)
as Phryne Fisher
Isolation (2005)
as Orla
The Custodian (1994)
as Jilly
A Poet in New York (2014)
as Caitlin Thomas
The Justice of Bunny King (2021)
as Bunny King
Fungi: The Web of Life (2023)
as Narrator (voice)
Blackrock (1997)
as Det. Gilhooley
They Call Him Mister Babadook: The Making of The Babadook (2015)
as Self
The Wedding Party (2010)
as Jane
Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger (2008)
as Grace Blueburger
Unspeakable (—)
as Judith
The Ripper (1997)
as Evelyn Bookman
After the Deluge (2003)
as Beth
The Silence (2006)
as Juliet Moore
Lilian's Story (1996)
as Zara
The Sound of One Hand Clapping (1998)
as Jean
Dad and Dave: On Our Selection (1995)
Actor
The Pact (2003)
as Helene Davis
River Street (1997)
as Wendy Davis
The Two-Wheeled Time Machine (1997)
as Young alice