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Essie Davis

Essie Davis

Birthday: 1970-01-07 | Place of Birth: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   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. She has recently completed filming the movie Australia with Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, directed by Baz Luhrmann. In 2008 Davis played Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof for the Melbourne Theatre Company. She returned to Tasmania to launch the "The Tasmanian Theatre Company" in 2008 and help support local theatre whilst encouraging youth to continue participating in the arts. Description above from the Wikipedia article Essie Davis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Film

Jouer

Year
Title

Role

2021
The Justice of Bunny King

jouer    Bunny King

2021
Andorra

jouer    Nancy Quay

2020
Milla

jouer    Anna

2020
True History of the Kelly Gang

jouer    Ellen Kelly

2020
Miss Fisher et le tombeau des larmes

jouer    Phryne Fisher

2019
Lambs of God

jouer    Sister Iphigenia

2017
The Last Post

jouer    Martha Franklin

2016
Mindhorn

jouer    Patricia Deville

2015
Miss Fisher enquête

jouer    Phryne Fisher

2014
Mister Babadook

jouer    Amelia Vanek

2014
A Poet in New York

jouer    Caitlin Thomas

2011
Cloudstreet

jouer    Dolly Pickles

2011
Burning Man

jouer    Karen

2010
South Solitary

jouer    Alma Stanley

2010
The Wedding Party

jouer    Jane

2010
2008
Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger

jouer    Grace Blueburger

2008
Australia

jouer    Katherine

2006
The Silence

jouer    Juliet Moore

2006
Sweeney Todd

jouer    Mrs Lovett

2005
Isolation

jouer    Orla

2003
La jeune fille à la perle

jouer    Catharina Bolnes Vermeer