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person_profile-Essie Davis

Essie Davis Age: 55

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Essie Davis

Date of Birth:

Jan 07, 1970

Country of birth:

Australia

Biography of

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.

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Filmography of

Essie Davis

Found 0 Movies in total

... 2022

... 2010 - 2019

Lambs of God

Sister Iphigenia ( Actor )

... 2019

... 2017 - 2018

... 2017

The White Princess

Elizabeth Woodville ( Actor )

... 2017

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

Phryne Fisher ( Actor )

... 2012 - 2015

Cloudstreet

Dolly Pickles ( Actor )

... 2011

... 2002

... 1994 - 2002

Kings in Grass Castles

Mary Costello ( Actor )

... 1998