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Andorra

as Nancy Quay

1
The Justice of Bunny King

as Bunny King

2021
Nitram

as Helen

2022
True History of the Kelly Gang

as Ellen Kelly

2019
Babyteeth

as Anna

2020
Mindhorn

as Patricia Deville

2016
The Babadook

as Amelia Vanek

2014
A Poet in New York

as Caitlin Thomas

2014
Burning Man

as Karen

2011
South Solitary

as Alma Stanley

2010
Australia

as Katherine

2008
Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger

as Grace Blueburger

2008
Sweeney Todd

as Mrs Lovett

2006
Isolation

as Orla

2005
Code 46

as

2004
Girl with a Pearl Earring

as Catharina Bolnes Vermeer

2003
Essie Davis Essie Davis

Birthday

1970-01-07

Place of Birth

Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Biography

​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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