Essie Davis
Born
January 7, 1970 (55 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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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. 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.
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Known For
Alien: Earth
Dame Sylvia · (8 episodes)
2025
Apple Cider Vinegar
Natalie Dal-Bello · (6 episodes)
2025
One Day
Alison · (4 episodes)
2024
Faraway Downs
Cath Carney · (6 episodes)
2023
Fungi: The Web of Life
Narrator (voice)
2023
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
Nancy Bradley · (1 episode)
2022
Nitram
Helen
2021
The Justice of Bunny King
Bunny King
2021
Babyteeth
Anna
2020
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
Phryne Fisher
2020
True History of the Kelly Gang
Ellen Kelly
2019
Lambs of God
Sister Iphigenia · (4 episodes)
2019
The Last Post
Martha Franklin · (5 episodes)
2017
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
Vera Herrick · (1 episode)
2017
The White Princess
Elizabeth Woodville · (8 episodes)
2017
Assassin's Creed
Mary Lynch
2016
Mindhorn
Patricia Deville
2016
They Call Him Mister Babadook: The Making of The Babadook
2015
The Babadook
Amelia Vanek
2014
A Poet in New York
Caitlin Thomas
2014
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
Phryne Fisher · (34 episodes)
2012
The Slap
Anouk · (8 episodes)
2011
Burning Man
Karen
2011
Cloudstreet
Dolly Pickles · (3 episodes)
2011
Game of Thrones
Lady Crane · (3 episodes)
2011
South Solitary
Alma Stanley
2010
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
Marella (voice)
2010
The Wedding Party
Jane
2010
Australia
Katherine
2008
Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger
Grace Blueburger
2008
Charlotte's Web
Mrs. Arable
2006
The Silence
Juliet Moore
2006
Sweeney Todd
Mrs Lovett
2006
Isolation
Orla
2005
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Catharina Bolnes Vermeer
2003
The Matrix Revolutions
Maggie
2003
Code 46
Doctor
2003
After the Deluge
Beth
2003
After the Deluge
Beth · (2 episodes)
2003
The Matrix Reloaded
Maggie
2003
The Pact
Helene Davis
2003
Young Lions
Julie Morgan · (2 episodes)
2002
The Sound of One Hand Clapping
Jean
1998
Kings in Grass Castles
Mary Costello · (2 episodes)
1998
The Ripper
Evelyn Bookman
1997
River Street
Wendy Davis
1997
The Two-Wheeled Time Machine
Young alice
1997
Blackrock
Det. Gilhooley
1997
Lilian's Story
Zara
1996
Dad and Dave: On Our Selection
1995
Halifax f.p.
Alison Blount · (1 episode)
1994
The Custodian
Jilly
1994
Play School
Self · (2 episodes)
1966