Essie Davis
cumpleaños: 1970-01-19 | lugar de nacimiento: Hobart, Tasmania, AustraliaEssie 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.
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as Dame Sylvia
as Natalie Dal-Bello
as Self
as Cath Carney
as Narrator (voice)
as Helen
as Bunny King
as Anna
as Phryne Fisher
as Ellen Kelly
as Sister Iphigenia
as Elizabeth Woodville
as Patricia Deville
as Amelia Vanek
as Caitlin Thomas
as Phryne Fisher
as Anouk
as Dolly Pickles
as Karen
as Alma Stanley
as Jane
as Grace Blueburger
as Katherine
as Mrs Lovett
as Orla
