Personal Info
Esther "Essie" Davis
Essie Davies
Essie Davis
Acting
Biography
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 …
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Fungi: The Web of Life
as Narrator (voice)
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
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
TV Shows
Alien: Earth
as Dame Sylvia · 8 ep.
Apple Cider Vinegar
as Natalie Dal-Bello · 6 ep.
One Day
as Alison · 4 ep.
Faraway Downs
as Cath Carney · 6 ep.
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
as Nancy Bradley · 1 ep.
Lambs of God
as Sister Iphigenia · 4 ep.
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
as Vera Herrick · 1 ep.
The White Princess
as Elizabeth Woodville · 8 ep.
The Last Post
as Martha Franklin · 5 ep.
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
as Phryne Fisher · 34 ep.
