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Essie Davis

Essie Davis

​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.

Personal information

Birthday

1970-01-07

Birth Place

Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Movies and TV shows :

A Poet in New York

A Poet in New York

2014

5.3

Movie
After the Deluge

After the Deluge

2003

0.0

Movie
poster

After the Deluge

2003

4.7

TV
poster

Alien: Earth

0.0

TV
Assassin's Creed

Assassin's Creed

2016

5.4

Movie
Australia

Australia

2008

6.6

Movie
Babyteeth

Babyteeth

2020

6.9

Movie
Blackrock

Blackrock

1997

6.0

Movie
Burning Man

Burning Man

2011

6.0

Movie
Charlotte's Web

Charlotte's Web

2006

6.2

Movie
poster

Cloudstreet

2011

7.0

TV
Code 46

Code 46

2003

6.2

Movie
Dad and Dave: On Our Selection

Dad and Dave: On Our Selection

1995

5.0

Movie
poster

Faraway Downs

2023

7.0

TV
Fungi: The Web of Life

Fungi: The Web of Life

2023

6.4

Movie
poster

Game of Thrones

2011

8.5

TV
Girl with a Pearl Earring

Girl with a Pearl Earring

2003

6.6

Movie
poster

Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities

2022

7.6

TV
poster

Halifax f.p.

1994

6.2

TV
Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger

Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger

2008

5.8

Movie
Isolation

Isolation

2005

5.5

Movie
poster

Kings in Grass Castles

1998

10.0

TV
poster

Lambs of God

2019

5.9

TV
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole

2010

6.8

Movie
Lilian's Story

Lilian's Story

1996

5.2

Movie
Mindhorn

Mindhorn

2016

6.1

Movie
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears

Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears

2020

6.1

Movie
poster

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

2012

7.7

TV
Nitram

Nitram

2021

7.0

Movie
poster

One Day

2024

7.7

TV
poster

Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams

2017

7.1

TV
poster

Play School

1966

0.0

TV
River Street

River Street

1997

0.0

Movie
South Solitary

South Solitary

2010

6.9

Movie
Sweeney Todd

Sweeney Todd

2006

6.3

Movie
The Babadook

The Babadook

2014

6.5

Movie
The Custodian

The Custodian

1994

4.3

Movie
The Justice of Bunny King

The Justice of Bunny King

2021

7.2

Movie
poster

The Last Post

2017

7.0

TV
The Last Time I Saw Michael Gregg

The Last Time I Saw Michael Gregg

2010

0.0

Movie
The Matrix Reloaded

The Matrix Reloaded

2003

7.1

Movie
The Matrix Revolutions

The Matrix Revolutions

2003

6.7

Movie
The Pact

The Pact

2003

3.0

Movie
The Ripper

The Ripper

1997

5.5

Movie
The Silence

The Silence

2006

6.0

Movie
poster

The Slap

2011

6.8

TV
The Sound of One Hand Clapping

The Sound of One Hand Clapping

1998

2.8

Movie
The Two-Wheeled Time Machine

The Two-Wheeled Time Machine

1997

5.0

Movie
The Wedding Party

The Wedding Party

2010

5.2

Movie
poster

The White Princess

2017

7.8

TV
They Call Him Mister Babadook: The Making of The Babadook

They Call Him Mister Babadook: The Making of The Babadook

2015

5.3

Movie
True History of the Kelly Gang

True History of the Kelly Gang

2019

5.9

Movie
poster

Young Lions

2002

0.0

TV