Essie Davis
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. She has recently completed filming the movie Australia with Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, directed by Baz Luhrmann. In 2008 Davis played Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof for the Melbourne Theatre Company. She returned to Tasmania to launch the "The Tasmanian Theatre Company" in 2008 and help support local theatre whilst encouraging youth to continue participating in the arts. Description above from the Wikipedia article Essie Davis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Credits
- 2024 · One Day as Alison
- 2023 · Faraway Downs as Cath Carney
- 2023 · Fungi: The Web of Life as Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities as Nancy Bradley
- 2021 · Nitram as Helen
- 2021 · The Justice of Bunny King as Bunny King
- 2020 · Babyteeth as Anna
- 2020 · Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears as Phryne Fisher
- 2019 · True History of the Kelly Gang as Ellen Kelly
- 2019 · Lambs of God as Sister Iphigenia
- 2017 · The Last Post as Martha Franklin
- 2017 · Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams as Vera Herrick
- 2017 · The White Princess as Elizabeth Woodville
- 2016 · Assassin's Creed as Mary Lynch
- 2016 · Mindhorn as Patricia Deville
- 2015 · They Call Him Mister Babadook: The Making of The Babadook as
- 2014 · The Babadook as Amelia Vanek
- 2014 · A Poet in New York as Caitlin Thomas
- 2012 · Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries as Phryne Fisher
- 2011 · The Slap as Anouk
- 2011 · Burning Man as Karen
- 2011 · Cloudstreet as Dolly Pickles
- 2011 · Game of Thrones as Lady Crane
- 2010 · South Solitary as Alma Stanley
- 2010 · Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole as Marella (voice)
- 2010 · The Last Time I Saw Michael Gregg as Lotte
- 2010 · The Wedding Party as Jane
- 2008 · Australia as Katherine
- 2008 · Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger as Grace Blueburger
- 2006 · Charlotte's Web as Mrs. Arable
- 2006 · The Silence as Juliet Moore
- 2006 · Sweeney Todd as Mrs Lovett
- 2005 · Isolation as Orla
- 2003 · Girl with a Pearl Earring as Catharina Bolnes Vermeer
- 2003 · The Matrix Revolutions as Maggie
- 2003 · Code 46 as Doctor
- 2003 · After the Deluge as Beth
- 2003 · After the Deluge as Beth
- 2003 · The Matrix Reloaded as Maggie
- 2003 · The Pact as Helene Davis
- 2002 · Young Lions as Julie Morgan
- 1998 · The Sound of One Hand Clapping as Jean
- 1998 · Kings in Grass Castles as Mary Costello
- 1997 · The Ripper as Evelyn Bookman
- 1997 · River Street as Wendy Davis
- 1997 · The Two-Wheeled Time Machine as Young alice
- 1997 · Blackrock as Det. Gilhooley
- 1996 · Lilian's Story as Zara
- 1995 · Dad and Dave: On Our Selection as
- 1994 · Halifax f.p. as Alison Blount
- 1994 · The Custodian as Jilly
- 1966 · Play School as Self
- 2024 · Alien: Earth as Dame Silvia