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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.

Alien: Earth
as Dame Sylvia

Apple Cider Vinegar
as Natalie Dal-Bello

One Day
as Alison

Faraway Downs
as Cath Carney

Fungi: The Web of Life
as Narrator (voice)

Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
as Nancy Bradley

Nitram
as Helen

The Justice of Bunny King
as Bunny King

Babyteeth
as Anna

Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
as Phryne Fisher

True History of the Kelly Gang
as Ellen Kelly

Lambs of God
as Sister Iphigenia

The Last Post
as Martha Franklin

Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
as Vera Herrick

The White Princess
as Elizabeth Woodville

Assassin's Creed
as Mary Lynch

Mindhorn
as Patricia Deville

They Call Him Mister Babadook: The Making of The Babadook
as Self

The Babadook
as Amelia Vanek

A Poet in New York
as Caitlin Thomas

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
as Phryne Fisher

The Slap
as Anouk

Burning Man
as Karen

Cloudstreet
as Dolly Pickles

Game of Thrones
as Lady Crane

South Solitary
as Alma Stanley

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
as Marella (voice)

The Wedding Party
as Jane

Australia
as Katherine

Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger
as Grace Blueburger

Charlotte's Web
as Mrs. Arable

The Silence
as Juliet Moore

Sweeney Todd
as Mrs Lovett

Isolation
as Orla

Girl with a Pearl Earring
as Catharina Bolnes Vermeer

The Matrix Revolutions
as Maggie

Code 46
as Doctor

After the Deluge
as Beth

After the Deluge
as Beth

The Matrix Reloaded
as Maggie

The Pact
as Helene Davis

Young Lions
as Julie Morgan

The Sound of One Hand Clapping
as Jean

Kings in Grass Castles
as Mary Costello

The Ripper
as Evelyn Bookman

River Street
as Wendy Davis

The Two-Wheeled Time Machine
as Young alice

Blackrock
as Det. Gilhooley

Lilian's Story
as Zara

Dad and Dave: On Our Selection

Halifax f.p.
as Alison Blount

The Custodian
as Jilly

Play School
as Self
Unspeakable
as Judith