Essie Davis
- Recitazione
- 19 gennaio 1970 · Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Biografia
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.
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Filmografia
- Alien: Pianeta Terra · Dame Sylvia
- La strada stretta verso il profondo Nord · Lynette Maison
- Apple Cider Vinegar · Natalie Dal-Bello
- One Day · Alison
- Faraway Downs · Cath Carney
- Fungi: The Web of Life · Narrator (Voce)
- Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities · Nancy Bradley
- Nitram · Helen
- The Justice of Bunny King · Bunny King
- Babyteeth - Tutti i colori di Milla · Anna
- Miss Fisher e la cripta delle lacrime · Phryne Fisher, Associate Producer
- The Kelly Gang · Ellen Kelly
- Emu Runner · Ringraziamenti
- Lambs of God · Sister Iphigenia
- The Last Post · Martha Franklin
- Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams · Vera Herrick
- The White Princess · Elizabeth Woodville
- Assassin's Creed · Mary Lynch
- Mindhorn · Patricia Deville
- They Call Him Mister Babadook: The Making of The Babadook · In persona
- Babadook · Amelia Vanek
- A Poet in New York · Caitlin Thomas
- Miss Fisher Delitti e Misteri · Phryne Fisher
- The Slap · Anouk
- Burning Man · Karen
- Cloudstreet · Dolly Pickles
- Il Trono di Spade · Lady Crane
- South Solitary · Alma Stanley
- Il regno di Ga'Hoole - La leggenda dei guardiani · Marella (Voce)
- The Wedding Party · Jane
- Australia · Katherine
- Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger · Grace Blueburger
- La tela di Carlotta · Mrs. Arable
- The Silence · Juliet Moore
- Sweeney Todd · Mrs Lovett
- Isolation - La Fattoria del Terrore · Orla
- La ragazza con l'orecchino di perla · Catharina Bolnes Vermeer
- Matrix Revolutions · Maggie
- Codice 46 · Doctor
- After the Deluge · Beth
- After the Deluge · Beth
- Matrix Reloaded · Maggie
- The Pact · Helene Davis
- Young Lions · Julie Morgan
- The Sound of One Hand Clapping · Jean
- Kings in Grass Castles · Mary Costello
- The Ripper · Evelyn Bookman
- River Street · Wendy Davis
- The Two-Wheeled Time Machine · Young alice
- Blackrock · Det. Gilhooley
- Lilian's Story · Zara
- Dad and Dave: On Our Selection
- Halifax f.p. · Alison Blount
- The Custodian · Jilly
- Play School · In persona
- Unspeakable · Judith