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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 19, 1970
Place of Birth
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Also Known As
- Esther "Essie" Davis
- Essie Davies
Essie Davis
2.1 Popularity
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.
Known For
7.4
Dame Sylvia
Alien: Earth
2025
0.0
Self
Alien: Earth - On Set Dispatches
2025
6.6
Natalie Dal-Bello
Apple Cider Vinegar
2025
7.6
Alison
One Day
2024
6.9
Cath Carney
Faraway Downs
2023
6.4
Narrator (voice)
Fungi: The Web of Life
2023
7.5
Nancy Bradley
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
2022
6.9
Helen
Nitram
2021
7.1
Bunny King
The Justice of Bunny King
2021
6.9
Anna
Babyteeth
2020
Credits
Alien: Earth
as Dame Sylvia
2025
7.4
Alien: Earth - On Set Dispatches
as Self
2025
0.0
Apple Cider Vinegar
as Natalie Dal-Bello
2025
6.6
One Day
as Alison
2024
7.6
Faraway Downs
as Cath Carney
2023
6.9
Fungi: The Web of Life
as Narrator (voice)
2023
6.4
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
as Nancy Bradley
2022
7.5
Nitram
as Helen
2021
6.9
The Justice of Bunny King
as Bunny King
2021
7.1
Babyteeth
as Anna
2020
6.9
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
as Phryne Fisher
2020
6.1
True History of the Kelly Gang
as Ellen Kelly
2019
5.9
Lambs of God
as Sister Iphigenia
2019
5.8
The Last Post
as Martha Franklin
2017
6.6
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
as Vera Herrick
2017
7.0
The White Princess
as Elizabeth Woodville
2017
7.8
Assassin's Creed
as Mary Lynch
2016
5.4
Mindhorn
as Patricia Deville
2016
6.1
They Call Him Mister Babadook: The Making of The Babadook
2015
5.2
The Babadook
as Amelia Vanek
2014
6.5
A Poet in New York
as Caitlin Thomas
2014
5.3
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
as Phryne Fisher
2012
7.6
The Slap
as Anouk
2011
6.6
Burning Man
as Karen
2011
5.9
Cloudstreet
as Dolly Pickles
2011
7.0
Game of Thrones
as Lady Crane
2011
8.5
South Solitary
as Alma Stanley
2010
6.9
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
as Marella (voice)
2010
6.8
The Wedding Party
as Jane
2010
5.0
Australia
as Katherine
2008
6.6
Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger
as Grace Blueburger
2008
5.8
Charlotte's Web
as Mrs. Arable
2006
6.2
The Silence
as Juliet Moore
2006
6.0
Sweeney Todd
as Mrs Lovett
2006
6.3
Isolation
as Orla
2005
5.5
Girl with a Pearl Earring
as Catharina Bolnes Vermeer
2003
6.6
The Matrix Revolutions
as Maggie
2003
6.7
Code 46
as Doctor
2003
6.2
After the Deluge
as Beth
2003
3.4
After the Deluge
as Beth
2003
0.0
The Matrix Reloaded
as Maggie
2003
7.1
The Pact
as Helene Davis
2003
3.0
Young Lions
as Julie Morgan
2002
0.0
The Sound of One Hand Clapping
as Jean
1998
2.8
Kings in Grass Castles
as Mary Costello
1998
10.0
The Ripper
as Evelyn Bookman
1997
5.3
River Street
as Wendy Davis
1997
1.0
The Two-Wheeled Time Machine
as Young alice
1997
5.0
Blackrock
as Det. Gilhooley
1997
5.3
Lilian's Story
as Zara
1996
4.4
Dad and Dave: On Our Selection
1995
5.0
Halifax f.p.
as Alison Blount
1994
6.2
The Custodian
as Jilly
1994
4.0
Play School
as Self
1966
0.0