Essie Davis
Acting
Born 1970-01-19
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.
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Filmography
Game of Thrones
Alien: Earth
The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Revolutions
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
Halifax f.p.
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
Apple Cider Vinegar
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
The Babadook
Faraway Downs
Charlotte's Web
Assassin's Creed
The White Princess
One Day
Australia
Girl with a Pearl Earring
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Lambs of God
The Slap
The Last Post
Code 46
Young Lions
Play School
True History of the Kelly Gang
Babyteeth
Mindhorn
Nitram
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
Isolation
Burning Man
Kings in Grass Castles
After the Deluge
Cloudstreet
Blackrock
The Sound of One Hand Clapping
Sweeney Todd
Dad and Dave: On Our Selection
Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger
Unspeakable
The Wedding Party
They Call Him Mister Babadook: The Making of The Babadook
A Poet in New York
South Solitary
Emu Runner
The Custodian
Fungi: The Web of Life
The Ripper
Lilian's Story
The Justice of Bunny King
River Street
The Silence
The Two-Wheeled Time Machine
After the Deluge
The Pact
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