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Essie Davis
🎂 Jan 19, 1970 (56)
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Essie Davis, born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, is an actor and producer. Made their debut in 1994 with The Custodian. Best known for The Matrix Reloaded, playing Maggie. Also starred in The Matrix Revolutions and Assassin's Creed. Their filmography spans 35 movies and 18 TV shows over 32 years, across genres including adventure, drama, sci-fi.
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The Matrix Reloaded
2003
The Matrix Revolutions
2003
Assassin's Creed
2016
The Babadook
2014
Girl with a Pearl Earring
2003
Charlotte's Web
2006
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
2010
Australia
2008
Sweeney Todd
2006
Nitram
2021
Code 46
2003
True History of the Kelly Gang
2019
Mindhorn
2016
Babyteeth
2020
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
2020
Blackrock
1997
Burning Man
2011
Isolation
2005
Lilian's Story
1996
South Solitary
2010
The Wedding Party
2010
The Custodian
1994
Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger
2008
The Sound of One Hand Clapping
1998
The Justice of Bunny King
2021
TV Shows
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
2012
The Slap
2011
Alien: Earth
2025
The White Princess
2017
Apple Cider Vinegar
2025
The Last Post
2017
One Day
2024
Lambs of God
2019
Cloudstreet
2011
Game of Thrones
2011
After the Deluge
2003
Kings in Grass Castles
1998
Young Lions
2002
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
2017
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
2022
Halifax f.p.
1994
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Essie Davis
1970-01-19 · 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. 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.