Essie Davis
Known For
Acting
Born
1970-01-19 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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.
Most Known For
Game of Thrones
as Lady Crane
Alien: Earth
as Dame Sylvia
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
as Vera Herrick
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
as Nancy Bradley
The Matrix Reloaded
as Maggie
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
as Phryne Fisher
The Matrix Revolutions
as Maggie
Australia
as Katherine
One Day
as Alison
Faraway Downs
as Cath Carney
Assassin's Creed
as Mary Lynch
The White Princess
as Elizabeth Woodville
The Babadook
as Amelia Vanek
Babyteeth
as Anna
Charlotte's Web
as Mrs. Arable
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
as Marella (voice)
Nitram
as Helen
Apple Cider Vinegar
as Natalie Dal-Bello
Young Lions
as Julie Morgan
Lambs of God
as Sister Iphigenia