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Essie Davis
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 U…
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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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2025
Alien: Earth
TV show Dame Sylvia
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2025
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
TV show Lynette Maison
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2025
Apple Cider Vinegar
TV show Natalie Dal-Bello
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2024
One Day
TV show Alison
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2023
Faraway Downs
TV show Cath Carney
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2023
Fungi: The Web of Life
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2022
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
TV show Nancy Bradley
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2021
Nitram
Movie Helen
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2021
The Justice of Bunny King
Movie Bunny King
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2020
Babyteeth
Movie Anna
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2020
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
Movie Phryne Fisher
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2019
True History of the Kelly Gang
Movie Ellen Kelly
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2019
Emu Runner
Movie Thanks
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2019
Lambs of God
TV show Sister Iphigenia
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2017
The Last Post
TV show Martha Franklin
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2017
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
TV show Vera Herrick
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2017
The White Princess
TV show Elizabeth Woodville
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2016
Assassin's Creed
Movie Mary Lynch
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2016
Mindhorn
Movie Patricia Deville
- 2015
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2014
The Babadook
Movie Amelia Vanek
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2014
A Poet in New York
Movie Caitlin Thomas
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2012
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
TV show Phryne Fisher
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2011
The Slap
TV show Anouk
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2011
Burning Man
Movie Karen
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2011
Cloudstreet
TV show Dolly Pickles
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2011
Game of Thrones
TV show Lady Crane
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2010
South Solitary
Movie Alma Stanley
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2010
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
Movie Marella (voice)
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2010
The Wedding Party
Movie Jane
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2008
Australia
Movie Katherine
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2008
Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger
Movie Grace Blueburger
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2006
Charlotte's Web
Movie Mrs. Arable
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2006
The Silence
Movie Juliet Moore
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2006
Sweeney Todd
Movie Mrs Lovett
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2005
Isolation
Movie Orla
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2003
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Movie Catharina Bolnes Vermeer
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2003
The Matrix Revolutions
Movie Maggie
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2003
Code 46
Movie Doctor
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2003
After the Deluge
TV show Beth
