Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1970-01-19 (Age: 56)
Place of Birth
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Essie 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. 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.
Filmography (35)
Fungi: The Web of Life
2023
Nitram
2021
The Justice of Bunny King
2021
Babyteeth
2020
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
2020
True History of the Kelly Gang
2019
Assassin's Creed
2016
Mindhorn
2016
They Call Him Mister Babadook: The Making of The Babadook
2015
The Babadook
2014
A Poet in New York
2014
Burning Man
2011
South Solitary
2010
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
2010
