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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The Resistance builds in numbers as humans are freed from the Matrix and brought to the city of Zion...
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A BBC adaptation of the Victorian "penny dreadful" tale of 19th century "demon barber" Sweeney Todd,...
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Tom is a British chef in a Bondi restaurant who seems to have decided there are no longer any rules ...
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Recent movies
| # | Name | Character | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nitram (2021) | Helen | 7 | |
| 2 | The Justice of Bunny King (2021) | Bunny King | - | - |
| 3 | Babyteeth (2020) | Anna | 5.7 | |
| 4 | Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears (2020) | Phryne Fisher | 5.3 | |
| 5 | True History of the Kelly Gang (2019) | Ellen Kelly | 5 | |
| 6 | Mindhorn (2016) | Patricia Deville | 7 | |
| 7 | Assassin's Creed (2016) | Mary Lynch | 6.1 | |
| 8 | The Babadook (2014) | Amelia Vanek | 6.8 | |
| 9 | Burning Man (2011) | Karen | 7 | |
| 10 | Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010) | Marella (voice) | 6.8 | |
| 11 | South Solitary (2010) | Alma Stanley | - | - |
| 12 | Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger (2008) | Grace Blueburger | 6 | |
| 13 | Australia (2008) Oscars 2009 | Katherine | 6.5 | |
| 14 | Charlotte's Web (2006) | Mrs. Arable | 7.2 | |
| 15 | The Silence (2006) | Juliet Moore | 5 | |
| 16 | Sweeney Todd (2006) | Mrs Lovett | 5.5 | |
| 17 | Isolation (2005) | Orla | 6 | |
| 18 | The Matrix Reloaded (2003) | Maggie | 7.4 | |
| 19 | The Matrix Revolutions (2003) | Maggie | 7.1 | |
| 20 | Code 46 (2003) | Doctor | 6.7 | |
| 21 | Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) Oscars 2004 | Catharina Bolnes Vermeer | 6.7 | |
| 22 | Blackrock (1997) | Det. Gilhooley | - | - |
| 23 | Lilian's Story (1996) | Zara | - | - |

