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.
The Matrix Reloaded
(Maggie)
Girl with a Pearl Earring
(Catharina Bolnes Vermeer)
Blackrock
(Det. Gilhooley)
Australia
(Katherine)
Isolation
(Orla)
Charlotte's Web
(Mrs. Arable)
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
(Marella (voice))
Sweeney Todd
(Mrs Lovett)
Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger
(Grace Blueburger)
South Solitary
(Alma Stanley)
Burning Man
(Karen)
After the Deluge
(Beth)
The Wedding Party
(Jane)
The Pact
(Helene Davis)
The Ripper
(Evelyn Bookman)
The Babadook
(Amelia Vanek)
Lilian's Story
(Zara)
A Poet in New York
(Caitlin Thomas)
The Custodian
(Jilly)
River Street
(Wendy Davis)
Code 46
(Doctor)
They Call Him Mister Babadook: The Making of The Babadook
The Silence
(Juliet Moore)
Mindhorn
(Patricia Deville)
Assassin's Creed
(Mary Lynch)
Fungi: The Web of Life
(Narrator (voice))
True History of the Kelly Gang
(Ellen Kelly)
Babyteeth
(Anna)
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
(Phryne Fisher)
The Two-Wheeled Time Machine
(Young alice)
Dad and Dave: On Our Selection
The Sound of One Hand Clapping
(Jean)
The Matrix Revolutions
(Maggie)
The Justice of Bunny King
(Bunny King)
Nitram
(Helen)
Alien: Earth - On Set Dispatches
(Self)
The Last Post
(Martha Franklin)
After the Deluge
(Beth)
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
(Phryne Fisher)
Cloudstreet
(Dolly Pickles)
The Slap
(Anouk)
Alien: Earth
(Dame Sylvia)
Game of Thrones
(Lady Crane)
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
(Vera Herrick)
Kings in Grass Castles
(Mary Costello)
One Day
(Alison)
Faraway Downs
(Cath Carney)
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
(Nancy Bradley)
Play School
(Self)
Lambs of God
(Sister Iphigenia)
Halifax f.p.
(Alison Blount)
Young Lions
(Julie Morgan)
The White Princess
(Elizabeth Woodville)
Apple Cider Vinegar
(Natalie Dal-Bello)
