
Essie Davis
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 Geoffre…
Known For
The Matrix Reloaded
Maggie
The Matrix Revolutions
Maggie
The Babadook
Amelia Vanek
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
Marella (voice)
Australia
Katherine
Alien: Earth
Dame Sylvia
Assassin's Creed
Mary Lynch
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Catharina Bolnes Vermeer
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Filmography
Acting (54)
Movies (36)
Alien: Earth - On Set Dispatches
2025as Self
Fungi: The Web of Life
2023as Narrator (voice)
Nitram
2021as Helen
The Justice of Bunny King
2021as Bunny King
Babyteeth
2020as Anna
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
2020as Phryne Fisher
True History of the Kelly Gang
2019as Ellen Kelly
Assassin's Creed
2016as Mary Lynch
Mindhorn
2016as Patricia Deville
They Call Him Mister Babadook: The Making of The Babadook
2015
The Babadook
2014as Amelia Vanek
A Poet in New York
2014as Caitlin Thomas
Burning Man
2011as Karen
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
2010as Marella (voice)
South Solitary
2010as Alma Stanley
The Wedding Party
2010as Jane
Australia
2008as Katherine
Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger
2008as Grace Blueburger
Charlotte's Web
2006as Mrs. Arable
Sweeney Todd
2006as Mrs Lovett
The Silence
2006as Juliet Moore
Isolation
2005as Orla
The Matrix Reloaded
2003as Maggie
The Matrix Revolutions
2003as Maggie
Code 46
2003as Doctor
Girl with a Pearl Earring
2003as Catharina Bolnes Vermeer
The Pact
2003as Helene Davis
After the Deluge
2003as Beth
The Sound of One Hand Clapping
1998as Jean
River Street
1997as Wendy Davis
Blackrock
1997as Det. Gilhooley
The Two-Wheeled Time Machine
1997as Young alice
The Ripper
1997as Evelyn Bookman
Lilian's Story
1996as Zara
Dad and Dave: On Our Selection
1995
The Custodian
1994as Jilly
Television (18)
Alien: Earth
2025as Dame Sylvia
Apple Cider Vinegar
2025as Natalie Dal-Bello
One Day
2024as Alison
Faraway Downs
2023as Cath Carney
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
2022as Nancy Bradley
Lambs of God
2019as Sister Iphigenia
The White Princess
2017as Elizabeth Woodville
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
2017as Vera Herrick
The Last Post
2017as Martha Franklin
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
2012as Phryne Fisher
Game of Thrones
2011as Lady Crane
The Slap
2011as Anouk
Cloudstreet
2011as Dolly Pickles
After the Deluge
2003as Beth
Young Lions
2002as Julie Morgan
Kings in Grass Castles
1998as Mary Costello
Halifax f.p.
1994as Alison Blount
Play School
1966as Self
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