Essie Davis
36 movies · 18 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jan 19, 1970 (age 56)
- Place of birth
- Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
- Also known as
- Essie Davies · Esther Davis
Biography
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.
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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
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★ 8.5 Game of Thrones
2011 · TV
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★ 7.1 The Matrix Reloaded
2003 · Film
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★ 6.8 The Matrix Revolutions
2003 · Film
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★ 5.4 Assassin's Creed
2016 · Film
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★ 6.5 The Babadook
2014 · Film
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★ 6.8 Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
2010 · Film
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★ 6.6 Australia
2008 · Film
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★ 6.6 Girl with a Pearl Earring
2003 · Film
Essie Davis: movies and TV shows
Acting (53)
- Upcoming Unspeakable
as Judith
- 2025
- 2025
- 2025
- 2024
- 2023
- 2023 Fungi: The Web of Life
as Narrator (voice)
- 2022
- 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
- 2017
- 2017
- 2017
- 2016 Assassin's Creed
as Mary Lynch
- 2016 Mindhorn
as Patricia Deville
- 2014 The Babadook
as Amelia Vanek
- 2014 A Poet in New York
as Caitlin Thomas
- 2012
- 2011
- 2011 Burning Man
as Karen
- 2011
- 2011
- 2010 South Solitary
as Alma Stanley
- 2010 Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
as Marella (voice)
- 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
- 2003 The Matrix Reloaded
as Maggie
- 2003 The Pact
as Helene Davis
- 2002
- 1998 The Sound of One Hand Clapping
as Jean
- 1998
- 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
- 1994
- 1994 The Custodian
as Jilly
Behind the camera (2)
- 2020 Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
Associate Producer
- 2019 Emu Runner
Thanks
Talk shows and appearances (2)
- 2015
- 1966 Play School
2 episodes