Actor
Essie Davis
January 19, 1970 · Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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.
Notable work
8.5Game of Thrones (2011)
as Lady Crane
7.1The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
as Maggie
6.8The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
as Maggie
5.4Assassin's Creed (2016)
as Mary Lynch
6.5The Babadook (2014)
as Amelia Vanek
6.8Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)
as Marella (voice)
6.6Australia (2008)
as Katherine
6.6Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
as Catharina Bolnes Vermeer
6.2Charlotte's Web (2006)
as Mrs. Arable
7.3Alien: Earth (2025)
as Dame Sylvia
7.5Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities (2022)
as Nancy Bradley
6.2Code 46 (2003)
as Doctor
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