Essie Davis
出生 : 1970-01-07, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
略歴
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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. She has recently completed filming the movie Australia with Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, directed by Baz Luhrmann. In 2008 Davis played Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof for the Melbourne Theatre Company. She returned to Tasmania to launch the "The Tasmanian Theatre Company" in 2008 and help support local theatre whilst encouraging youth to continue participating in the arts.
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Helen
Based on true events, "Nitram" lives with his parents in suburban Australia in the mid-90s. He lives a life of isolation and frustration at never fitting in. As his anger grows, he begins a slow descent into a nightmare that culminates in the most heinous of acts.
Bunny King
妹夫婦の家に居候しているバニー(エシー・デイヴィス)は、必死に働きながら、離れて暮らす娘と再び一緒に生活することを夢見ていた。ある日バニーは、妹の夫ビーバンがめいのトーニャ(トーマシン・マッケンジー)に言い寄るさまを見る。バニーはそのことをビーバンに問い詰めるが、家を追い出されてしまう。住む家もなくしたバニーはトーニャと一緒に、娘を奪還することを思いつく。
Anna
病を抱える16歳の女子高生ミラは、ふとしたことから孤独な不良青年モーゼスと出会い、恋に落ちる。両親のアナとヘンリーは、ミラの初めての恋を心配し猛反対するが、ミラは怖いもの知らずで自分を特別扱いせずに接してくれるモーゼスに惹かれ、彼との刺激的でカラフルに色づいた日々を駆け抜けていく- しかし…。
Associate Producer
After freeing a young Bedouin girl from her unjust imprisonment in Jerusalem, an Australian adventuress, together with her devoted police detective friend, begins to unravel a decade-old mystery concerning priceless emeralds, an ancient curse and the disappearance of the girl's mother and massacre of her tribe.
Phryne Fisher
After freeing a young Bedouin girl from her unjust imprisonment in Jerusalem, an Australian adventuress, together with her devoted police detective friend, begins to unravel a decade-old mystery concerning priceless emeralds, an ancient curse and the disappearance of the girl's mother and massacre of her tribe.
Ellen Kelly
Set against the badlands of Australia where the English rule with a bloody fist and the Irish endure, Ned Kelly discovers he comes from a line of Irish rebels — an uncompromising army of cross dressing bandits immortalised for terrorising their oppressors back in Ireland. Fuelled by the unfair arrest of his mother, Kelly recruits a wild bunch of warriors to plot one of the most audacious attacks of anarchy and rebellion the country has ever seen.
Thanks
A spirited young girl in small town Australia forms a meaningful bond with a wild emu as she tries to cope with her beleaguered father, a naïve social worker, and her own painful grief in the aftermath of her mother’s sudden death.
Mary Lynch
全世界売上1億本超の大ヒットゲーム、ついに映画化！伝説のアサシンが未来を懸けて戦うアクション・アドベンチャー！ゲームの世界観を、パルクールを取り入れたアクロバティック・アクションや、命綱なしのスタントによる「イーグルダイブ」などでリアルに映像化!武器や体術を駆使したド派手なバトルも必見！記憶をなくした死刑囚カラム・リンチは、遺伝子操作をする装置によって祖先の記憶を追体験する。カラムの祖先はルネサンス期のスペインでテンプル騎士団に立ち向かうアサシン教団の一員で、人類支配の力を持つ禁断の秘宝のありかを知る、歴史上最後の人物でもあった。現在と過去を行き来する中で、カラムは人類の未来を左右する戦いに身を投じていく──！
Patricia Deville
A washed up actor best known for playing the title character in the 1980s detective show "Mindhorn" must work with the police when a serial killer says that he will only speak with Detective Mindhorn, whom he believes to be real.
A short documentary about the making of Jennifer Kent's 'The Babadook'.
Amelia Vanek
夫を悲惨な事故で失ったシングルマザーのアメリアは、一人息子のサミュエルと共に暮らしていた。サミュエルは学校でしばしば暴力的な行動を起こす問題児。言うことを聞かない息子に手を焼き、アメリアは疲れ果てていた。一方、サミュエルは、母親の読み聞かせで眠りにつくのが習慣で、その日はアメリアの知らない一冊の本を取り出し、彼女に読んで欲しいとせがむ。どこか薄気味の悪いその絵本は「ババドック」というキャラクターが登場する不思議な本だった。
Caitlin Thomas
In 1953 Dylan Thomas went to New York for the last time, his marriage a wreck, his drinking out of control. He was on his way to meet Stravinsky and to wallow in New York acclaim - but what was he escaping? How did such a triumph become a requiem? The last days of a great poet.
Karen
An English chef with a chic restaurant on Bondi Beach trying to put his life and his relationship with his son back on track while surrounded by women.
Alma Stanley
Meredith is a 35 year-old unmarried woman who arrives at a remote lighthouse island 1928 with her uncle the new head keeper.
Marella (voice)
フクロウたちが高度な文明を育む世界。ティト森林王国に暮らすメンフクロウの少年ソーレンは、ある夜、兄のクラッドと共に謎の一味にさらわれてしまう。一味は、王国の支配をたくらむ邪悪な組織《純血団》だった。誘拐された子どもたちは月光によって催眠術にかけられ、一味のために働かされるのだ。親友となったサボテンフクロウのジルフィーと共に脱走したソーレンは、伝説のガフールの勇者たちが住むという神木を探す。
Jane
When Steve's secret marriage of convenience is discovered by his family, he finds himself at the centre of the world's most farcical wedding, the only problem is, he is in love with somebody else.
Katherine
オーストラリアにやって来た英国貴族、レディ・サラ。亡夫の遺した土地を守るため、粗暴なカウボーイとともに1500頭の牛を売るべく長旅に出ることになり……。ニコール・キッドマン主演による壮大なラヴ・ストーリー。
Grace Blueburger
This film is a smart, rueful and dead-on portrait of life's unending quest to fit in; and the girl who solves it by completely breaking out - introduces a feisty outsider hero unlike any other seen on screen. Esther Blueburger's quest begins when she escapes from her Bat Mitzvah party and is befriended by Sunni.., the effortlessly cool girl who is everything Esther thinks she wants to be. With the help of Sunni, Esther goes away from her ordinary life and leaves behind her malfunctioning Jewish family to hang out with Sunni's far breezier and super-hip single mom Mary and attend Sunni's forbidden public school as a Swedish exchange student.
Mrs. Arable
危うく処分されかけた小さな子ブタは、エラブル家の娘ファーンに引き取られ、ウィルバーと名付けられる。やがて、ウィルバーは向かいの農場に預けられ、他の動物たちと一緒に暮らし始める。だがそんなある日、ウィルバーは、春に生まれたブタはクリスマスのハムになる、という話を聞いてしまう。怯えるウィルバーの前に、賢く心優しいクモのシャーロットが現われ、「あなたを守ってあげる」と約束する。
Juliet Moore
A police officer reassigned to curate a photography exhibition finds links between a series of murders.
Mrs Lovett
A BBC adaptation of the Victorian "penny dreadful" tale of 18th century "demon barber" Sweeney Todd, of Fleet Street, who cuts the throats of unsuspecting clients in his London shop.
Orla
On a remote Irish farm, five people become unwilling participants in an experiment that goes nightmarishly wrong.
Catharina Bolnes Vermeer
1665年オランダ。失明した父の代わりに家計を支えるため、画家フェルメール（コリン・ファース）の家で使用人として働くことになった17歳の少女グリート（スカーレット・ヨハンソン）。やがて、その美的センスをフェルメールに認められた彼女は、彼の手伝いをし始める。
Maggie
昏睡状態のネオはマトリックスとソースの狭間に捕らえられていた。ネオを信じるトリニティーらは彼を救出する。一方スミスは新たな段階へと進む。その間もザイオンにはセンティネルが近づきつつあった。
Doctor
In a dystopian future, insurance fraud investigator William Gold arrives in Shanghai to investigate a forgery ring for "papelles", futuristic passports that record people's identities and genetics. Gold falls for Maria Gonzalez, the woman in charge of the forgeries. After a passionate affair, Gold returns home, having named a coworker as the culprit. But when one of Gonzalez's customers is found dead, Gold is sent back to Shanghai to complete the investigation.
Beth
Follows the stories of the four men of the Kirby family. As Alex's marriage breaks apart, Toby tries desperately to start a family, and Marty tries to kick-start his faded music career as well as find a meaningful relationship with someone his own age, all three must come to terms with their father's mental state. Cliff, suffering from Alzheimer's disease, is reliving his disturbing memories of the war and his first love, as a part of his experiences of the present . Through all four stories, we uncover a families troubled past, and their struggle towards a reconciled future.
Maggie
人類の最期の砦「ザイオン」に残されたのは72時間。それを過ぎれば25万のセンチネルに襲われるだろう。しかしモーフィアスの信念は堅い。オラクルによればネオがこの戦争に終止符を打つ。一方のネオはヒントを得るためオラクルに会いに行く。
Helene Davis
Jean
Tasmania, 1954: Slovenian migrant Melita abandons her husband and young daughter, Sonja. Sonja's distraught father perseveres with his new life in a new country, but he is soon crushed into an alcoholic despair, and Sonja herself abandons him at the earliest opportunity. Now, nearly 20 years later, a single and pregnant Sonja returns to Tasmania's highlands and to her father in an attempt to put the pieces of her life back together.
Evelyn Bookman
It is 1888, and London is in the grip of one of the most gruesome and mysterious crime sprees in history. Under extreme pressure from the Royal family, the head of Scotland Yard assigns its top man to the grisly case.
Wendy Davis
Ben, an arrogant, hustling property developer is wrongly arrested and things from bad to worse when he accidentally punches a policeman at the station. Sentenced to community service at a local day centre, Ben's influence with a young tearaway forces him to question his values and he learns to see life from a different angle when he falls in love with Wendy, the centre's formidable and devoted manager...
Young alice
Henry Howard discovers a way to stay young forever, but life doesn't seem worth living without his childhood sweetheart Alice. Risking old age, Henry returns to convince her to join him.
Det. Gilhooley
In New South Wales, Jared surfs with his mates and has a first girl. He hosts a beach party for his older pal, Ricko, and witnesses four of his mates gang-rape a 15 year old. He does nothing, and the next day, she's found murdered. At school, the boys and the girls react: the girls with anger at the perpetrators, the boys with jeering at the dead girl's morality. The students' parents have their own responses. Jared retreats into angry silence, disgusted that he did nothing to help the dead girl. Meanwhile, his mother wants to talk to him about her impending cancer surgery, the police want to know what he saw, and his friend Ricko wants an alibi. Jared's cracking under the pressure.
Tired of local corruption and the harshness of his life a bushman demonstrates the true Aussie spirit and decides to run for parliament
Jilly
Detective James Quinlan has left his alcoholic wife, sprouting a bloom of insecurity, anger and self-motivation within him to expose the corrupt police force that surrounds him. He abandons his straight life to join his partner Detective Church in order to get on the inside of the circle of double-agents. He secretly sides with a reporter and an Internal Affairs lawyer to expose them to the press.
