Essie Davis
Acting
1970-01-19 · 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.
Filmography
Alien: Earth
2025 · Series
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
2025 · Series
Apple Cider Vinegar
2025 · Series
One Day
2024 · Series
Faraway Downs
2023 · Series
Fungi: The Web of Life
2023 · Movie
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
2022 · Series
Nitram
2021 · Movie
The Justice of Bunny King
2021 · Movie
Babyteeth
2020 · Movie
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
2020 · Movie
True History of the Kelly Gang
2019 · Movie
Emu Runner
2019 · Movie
Lambs of God
2019 · Series
The Last Post
2017 · Series
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
2017 · Series
The White Princess
2017 · Series
Assassin's Creed
2016 · Movie
Mindhorn
2016 · Movie
They Call Him Mister Babadook: The Making of The Babadook
2015 · Movie
The Babadook
2014 · Movie
A Poet in New York
2014 · Movie
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
2012 · Series
The Slap
2011 · Series
Burning Man
2011 · Movie
Cloudstreet
2011 · Series
Game of Thrones
2011 · Series
South Solitary
2010 · Movie
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
2010 · Movie
The Wedding Party
2010 · Movie
Australia
2008 · Movie
Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger
2008 · Movie
Charlotte's Web
2006 · Movie
The Silence
2006 · Movie
Sweeney Todd
2006 · Movie
Isolation
2005 · Movie
Girl with a Pearl Earring
2003 · Movie
The Matrix Revolutions
2003 · Movie
Code 46
2003 · Movie
After the Deluge
2003 · Series
After the Deluge
2003 · Movie
The Matrix Reloaded
2003 · Movie
The Pact
2003 · Movie
Young Lions
2002 · Series
The Sound of One Hand Clapping
1998 · Movie
Kings in Grass Castles
1998 · Series
The Ripper
1997 · Movie
River Street
1997 · Movie
The Two-Wheeled Time Machine
1997 · Movie
Blackrock
1997 · Movie
Lilian's Story
1996 · Movie
Dad and Dave: On Our Selection
1995 · Movie
Halifax f.p.
1994 · Series
The Custodian
1994 · Movie
Play School
1966 · Series
Unspeakable
Movie