Essie Davis

Known for ActingBorn 1970-01-19 (age 56)Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Young Lions

Kings in Grass Castles

Game of Thrones

One Day

The White Princess

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities

Alien: Earth

The Justice of Bunny King

Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams

Nitram

Cloudstreet

The Matrix Reloaded

Faraway Downs

Babyteeth

South Solitary

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole

Apple Cider Vinegar

The Matrix Revolutions

The Last Post

Fungi: The Web of Life

The Slap

Australia

The Babadook

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Dad and Dave: On Our Selection

Sweeney Todd

The Silence

Charlotte's Web

Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears

Mindhorn

Code 46

Halifax f.p.

True History of the Kelly Gang

They Call Him Mister Babadook: The Making of The Babadook

Burning Man

Lambs of God

Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger

The Two-Wheeled Time Machine

Emu Runner

Assassin's Creed

The Ripper

Isolation

Blackrock

A Poet in New York

The Wedding Party

Lilian's Story

The Pact