7.3
7.3
The Justice of Bunny King
2021
as Bunny King
Essie Davis
Acting
Born:January 19, 1970(age 56)
Birthplace:Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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CommunityBiography
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 (34 movies)
6.9
6.9
Nitram
2021
as Helen
6.9
6.9
South Solitary
2010
as Alma Stanley
6.9
6.9
Babyteeth
2020
as Anna
6.8
6.8
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
2010
as Marella (voice)
6.6
6.6
Girl with a Pearl Earring
2003
as Catharina Bolnes Vermeer
6.6
6.6
Australia
2008
as Katherine
6.5
6.5
The Babadook
2014
as Amelia Vanek
6.4
6.4
Fungi: The Web of Life
2023
as Narrator (voice)
6.3
6.3
Sweeney Todd
2006
as Mrs Lovett
6.2
6.2
Charlotte's Web
2006
as Mrs. Arable
6.2
6.2
Code 46
2003
as Doctor
6.1
6.1
Mindhorn
2016
as Patricia Deville
6.1
6.1
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
2020
as Phryne Fisher
6.0
6.0
The Silence
2006
as Juliet Moore
5.9
5.9
Burning Man
2011
as Karen
5.9
5.9
True History of the Kelly Gang
2019
as Ellen Kelly
5.8
5.8
Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger
2008
as Grace Blueburger
5.5
5.5
Isolation
2005
as Orla
5.4
5.4
Assassin's Creed
2016
as Mary Lynch
5.3
5.3
Blackrock
1997
as Det. Gilhooley
5.3
5.3
A Poet in New York
2014
as Caitlin Thomas
5.3
5.3
The Ripper
1997
as Evelyn Bookman
5.2
5.2
They Call Him Mister Babadook: The Making of The Babadook
2015
5.0
5.0
The Wedding Party
2010
as Jane
5.0
5.0
Dad and Dave: On Our Selection
1995
5.0
5.0
The Two-Wheeled Time Machine
1997
as Young alice
4.4
4.4
Lilian's Story
1996
as Zara
4.0
4.0
The Custodian
1994
as Jilly
3.0
3.0
The Pact
2003
as Helene Davis
2.8
2.8
The Sound of One Hand Clapping
1998
as Jean
1.0
1.0
River Street
1997
as Wendy Davis
Alien: Earth - On Set Dispatches
2025
as Self
After the Deluge
2003
as Beth
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