
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.

Kings in Grass Castles

Alien: Earth - On Set Dispatches

ゲーム・オブ・スローンズ

ホワイト・プリンセス エリザベス・オブ・ヨーク物語

ミス・フィッシャーの殺人ミステリー

One Day/ワン・デイ

ギレルモ・デル・トロの驚異の部屋

エイリアン:アース

ドライビング・バニー

マトリックス リローデッド

Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams

Cloudstreet

ニトラム/NITRAM

South Solitary

ベイビーティース

ガフールの伝説

ファラウェイ・ダウンズ

マトリックス レボリューションズ

真珠の耳飾りの少女

The Last Post

The Slap

アップルサイダービネガー

オーストラリア

ババドック ~暗闇の魔物~

Fungi: The Web of Life

Sweeney Todd

シャーロットのおくりもの

Halifax f.p.

Code 46

Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears

マインドホーン

The Silence

Burning Man

トゥルー・ヒストリー・オブ・ザ・ケリー・ギャング

Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger

Lambs of God

Isolation

アサシン クリード

Blackrock

A Poet in New York

The Ripper

They Call Him Mister Babadook: The Making of The Babadook

The Wedding Party

Dad and Dave: On Our Selection

The Two-Wheeled Time Machine

Lilian's Story

The Custodian

After the Deluge

The Pact

The Sound of One Hand Clapping

River Street

After the Deluge

Play School

Young Lions