Essie Davis

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1970-01-07 (55 years old)

Place of Birth

Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Essie Davis

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 Matr...

Acting

2003

2003

Girl with a Pearl Earring

as Catharina Bolnes Vermeer

1997

Blackrock

as Det. Gilhooley

2008

Australia

as Katherine

2005

Isolation

as Orla

2006

Charlotte's Web

as Mrs. Arable

2006

Sweeney Todd

as Mrs Lovett

2008

2010

South Solitary

as Alma Stanley

2011

Burning Man

as Karen

2003

2003

The Pact

as Helene Davis

1997

The Ripper

as Evelyn Bookman

2014

The Babadook

as Amelia Vanek

1996

2014

A Poet in New York

as Caitlin Thomas

1994

1997

River Street

as Wendy Davis

2003

Code 46

as Doctor

2006

The Silence

as Juliet Moore

2016

Mindhorn

as Patricia Deville

2016

Assassin's Creed

as Mary Lynch

2023

Fungi: The Web of Life

as Narrator (voice)

2020

Babyteeth

as Anna

2021

2021

Nitram

as Helen

Production

2020

2019

Emu Runner

as Thanks

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