Essie Davis
Birthday: Born in 1970-01-07 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Deathday: Alive
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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The Last Post
Character: Martha Franklin
Drama series set in the mid-sixties, in which a unit of Royal Military Police officers and their families deal with the challenges of politics, love and war in British-controlled Aden....
After the Deluge
Character: Beth
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Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
Character: Phryne Fisher
Our lady sleuth sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of late 1920’s Melbourne, fighting injustice with her pearl handled pistol and her dagger sharp wit. Leaving a trail of admirers in her wake, our thoroughly modern heroine makes sure she enjoys every moment of her lucky life. Based on author Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher Murder Mystery novels....
Cloudstreet
Character: Dolly Pickles
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The Slap
Character: Anouk
When a man slaps a 4-year-old boy, the incident results in an intense court case....
Alien: Earth
Character: Dame Silvia
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Game of Thrones
Character: Lady Crane
Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond....
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
Character: Vera Herrick
A diverse anthology of ambitious, moving tales inspired by Philip K Dick's short stories....
Kings in Grass Castles
Character: Mary Costello
The life of an Irish immigrant family in Australia in the second half of the 19th century....
One Day
Character: Alison
After spending graduation night together, Emma and Dexter go their separate ways — but their lives remain intertwined....
Faraway Downs
Character: Cath Carney
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Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
Character: Nancy Bradley
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Play School
Character: Self
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Lambs of God
Character: Sister Iphigenia
A dark, gothic tale about three nuns, each a generation apart, living in an isolated convent by the coast, and an unwelcome visitor who enters their lives and changes their world forever....
Halifax f.p.
Character: Alison Blount
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Young Lions
Character: Julie Morgan
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The White Princess
Character: Elizabeth Woodville
The story of Elizabeth of York, the White Queen's daughter, and her marriage to the Lancaster victor, Henry VII. Based on the Philippa Gregory book of the same name....
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The Matrix Reloaded
Character: Maggie
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
Character: Catharina Bolnes Vermeer
This film, adapted from a work of fiction by author Tracy Chevalier, tells a story about the events surrounding the creation of the painting "Girl With A Pearl Earring" by 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer. A young peasant maid working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous works....
Blackrock
Character: Det. Gilhooley
In New South Wales, Jared surfs with his mates and has a first girl. He hosts a beach party for his older pal, Ricko, and witnesses four of his mates gang-rape a 15 year old. He does nothing, and the next day, she's found murdered. At school, the boys and the girls react: the girls with anger at the perpetrators, the boys with jeering at the dead girl's morality. The students' parents have their own responses. Jared retreats into angry silence, disgusted that he did nothing to help the dead girl...
Australia
Character: Katherine
Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces firsthand....
Isolation
Character: Orla
On a remote Irish farm, five people become unwilling participants in an experiment that goes nightmarishly wrong....
Charlotte's Web
Character: Mrs. Arable
Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen....
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
Character: Marella (voice)
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Sweeney Todd
Character: Mrs Lovett
A BBC adaptation of the Victorian "penny dreadful" tale of 18th century "demon barber" Sweeney Todd, of Fleet Street, who cuts the throats of unsuspecting clients in his London shop....
Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger
Character: Grace Blueburger
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South Solitary
Character: Alma Stanley
Meredith is a 35 year-old unmarried woman who arrives at a remote lighthouse island 1928 with her uncle the new head keeper....
Burning Man
Character: Karen
An English chef with a chic restaurant on Bondi Beach trying to put his life and his relationship with his son back on track while surrounded by women....
After the Deluge
Character: Beth
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The Wedding Party
Character: Jane
When Steve's secret marriage of convenience is discovered by his family, he finds himself at the centre of the world's most farcical wedding, the only problem is, he is in love with somebody else....
The Pact
Character: Helene Davis
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The Ripper
Character: Evelyn Bookman
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The Babadook
Character: Amelia Vanek
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Lilian's Story
Character: Zara
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A Poet in New York
Character: Caitlin Thomas
In 1953 Dylan Thomas went to New York for the last time, his marriage a wreck, his drinking out of control. He was on his way to meet Stravinsky and to wallow in New York acclaim - but what was he escaping? How did such a triumph become a requiem? The last days of a great poet....
The Custodian
Character: Jilly
Detective James Quinlan has left his alcoholic wife, sprouting a bloom of insecurity, anger and self-motivation within him to expose the corrupt police force that surrounds him. He abandons his straight life to join his partner Detective Church in order to get on the inside of the circle of double-agents. He secretly sides with a reporter and an Internal Affairs lawyer to expose them to the press....
River Street
Character: Wendy Davis
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Code 46
Character: Doctor
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They Call Him Mister Babadook: The Making of The Babadook
Character:
A short documentary about the making of Jennifer Kent's 'The Babadook'....
The Silence
Character: Juliet Moore
A police officer reassigned to curate a photography exhibition finds links between a series of murders....
Mindhorn
Character: Patricia Deville
A washed up actor best known for playing the title character in the 1980s detective show "Mindhorn" must work with the police when a serial killer says that he will only speak with Detective Mindhorn, whom he believes to be real....
The Last Time I Saw Michael Gregg
Character: Lotte
Lotte and Ned have a problem. The wunderkind director of their theatre company, Bryce Kransky, pulls out of directing an adaptation of Chekhov's Three Sisters. He is replaced by Michael Gregg, a troubled director attempting a comeback. Following disastrous rehearsals, the cast begins to revolt, all while Gregg believes he has a masterpiece....
Assassin's Creed
Character: Mary Lynch
Through a technology that unlocks the generic memories of his ancestor in 15th century Spain, Callum Lynch discovers he is a descendant of an ancient line of Assassins and amasses lethal skills to take on the oppressive Templar Order....
Fungi: The Web of Life
Character: Narrator (voice)
Much of life on Earth is connected by a vast, hidden network that we are only just beginning to understand. Out of sight, between the world of plants and animals, another world exists—the kingdom of fungi....
True History of the Kelly Gang
Character: Ellen Kelly
Set against the badlands of Australia where the English rule with a bloody fist and the Irish endure, Ned Kelly discovers he comes from a line of Irish rebels — an uncompromising army of cross dressing bandits immortalised for terrorising their oppressors back in Ireland. Fuelled by the unfair arrest of his mother, Kelly recruits a wild bunch of warriors to plot one of the most audacious attacks of anarchy and rebellion the country has ever seen....
Babyteeth
Character: Anna
A terminally ill teen upsets her parents when she falls in love with a small-time drug dealer....
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
Character: Phryne Fisher
After freeing a young Bedouin girl from her unjust imprisonment in Jerusalem, an Australian adventuress, together with her devoted police detective friend, begins to unravel a decade-old mystery concerning priceless emeralds, an ancient curse and the disappearance of the girl's mother and massacre of her tribe....
The Two-Wheeled Time Machine
Character: Young alice
Henry Howard discovers a way to stay young forever, but life doesn't seem worth living without his childhood sweetheart Alice. Risking old age, Henry returns to convince her to join him....
Dad and Dave: On Our Selection
Character:
Tired of local corruption and the harshness of his life a bushman demonstrates the true Aussie spirit and decides to run for parliament...
The Sound of One Hand Clapping
Character: Jean
Tasmania, 1954: Slovenian migrant Melita abandons her husband and young daughter, Sonja. Sonja's distraught father perseveres with his new life in a new country, but he is soon crushed into an alcoholic despair, and Sonja herself abandons him at the earliest opportunity. Now, nearly 20 years later, a single and pregnant Sonja returns to Tasmania's highlands and to her father in an attempt to put the pieces of her life back together....
The Matrix Revolutions
Character: Maggie
The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith....
The Justice of Bunny King
Character: Bunny King
Bunny King is a mother of two, a rough cut diamond with a sketchy past. While battling the system to reunite with her children, a confrontation leads her to take her niece Tonyah under her wing. With the world against her and Tonyah, Bunny’s battle has just begun....
Nitram
Character: Helen
Based on true events, "Nitram" lives with his parents in suburban Australia in the mid-90s. He lives a life of isolation and frustration at never fitting in. As his anger grows, he begins a slow descent into a nightmare that culminates in the most heinous of acts....