Essie Davis
Acting
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.
Girl with a Pearl Earring
as Catharina Bolnes Vermeer
Age 33 (now 56)
True History of the Kelly Gang
as Ellen Kelly
Age 49 (now 56)
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
as Phryne Fisher
Age 42 (now 56)
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
as Phryne Fisher
Age 50 (now 56)
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
as Marella (voice)
Age 40 (now 56)
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
as Phryne Fisher
Age 50 (now 56) Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
Associate Producer
Age 50 (now 56) True History of the Kelly Gang
as Ellen Kelly
Age 49 (now 56)
They Call Him Mister Babadook: The Making of The Babadook
as Self
Age 45 (now 56)
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
as Marella (voice)
Age 40 (now 56)
Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger
as Grace Blueburger
Age 38 (now 56)
Girl with a Pearl Earring
as Catharina Bolnes Vermeer
Age 33 (now 56)
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
as Nancy Bradley
Age 52 (now 56)
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
as Vera Herrick
Age 47 (now 56)
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
as Phryne Fisher
Age 42 (now 56)
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Also Known As
Esther "Essie" Davis, Essie Davies
IMDB
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