Essie Davis
Photoplayd Industry Rating
Not enough rated films yet to compute a weighted score.
Roles are weighted by involvement: director 1.0, screenwriter 0.7, lead 0.8, supporting 0.4, crew 0.1.
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
The Babadook (2014)
as Amelia Vanek
Charlotte's Web (2006)
as Mrs. Arable
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)
as Marella (voice)
Assassin's Creed (2016)
as Mary Lynch
Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
as Catharina Bolnes Vermeer
Australia (2008)
as Katherine
Code 46 (2003)
as Doctor
Isolation (2005)
as Orla
Nitram (2021)
as Helen
True History of the Kelly Gang (2019)
as Ellen Kelly
Sweeney Todd (2006)
as Mrs Lovett
Mindhorn (2016)
as Patricia Deville
Babyteeth (2020)
as Anna
Burning Man (2011)
as Karen
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears (2020)
as Phryne Fisher
The Custodian (1994)
as Jilly
The Ripper (1997)
as Evelyn Bookman
The Silence (2006)
as Juliet Moore
Lilian's Story (1996)
as Zara
Blackrock (1997)
as Det. Gilhooley
The Pact (2003)
as Helene Davis
A Poet in New York (2014)
as Caitlin Thomas
After the Deluge (2003)
as Beth
The Wedding Party (2010)
as Jane
River Street (1997)
as Wendy Davis
The Justice of Bunny King (2021)
as Bunny King
South Solitary (2010)
as Alma Stanley
The Sound of One Hand Clapping (1998)
as Jean
Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger (2008)
as Grace Blueburger
Dad and Dave: On Our Selection (1995)
Actor
The Two-Wheeled Time Machine (1997)
as Young alice
Fungi: The Web of Life (2023)
as Narrator (voice)
They Call Him Mister Babadook: The Making of The Babadook (2015)
as Self
Unspeakable (—)
as Judith