Essie Davis

Essie Davis met Justin Kurzel in 1996, during a street play and they started dating. However, due to their respective busy schedules, the couple remained in long distance relationship for most of the time and eventually got married in 2002. The couple is parents to twin daughters - Ruby and Stella.

Essie is in love with her hometown, Hobart, and visits the place whenever she finds even a little time away from her busy schedule.

A huge ‘Game of Thrones’ fan, Essie has said that she never misses any episode and being a part of the show is an unforgettable honour in itself.

Essie Davis was born on 7th January 1970 in Tasmania, Australia to a local artist, George Davis. She received her early trainings in arts and crafts from her father. She looked up to him as an inspiration and still maintains that he was the biggest pillar of support while she was growing up. She was the youngest kid in a huge family of 9 people, including the parents.

The family survived in very humble conditions and her father, being a painter, could only adhere to the basic needs of 7 of his kids. Her brothers also worked along with the studies to earn money.

The beauty of her surroundings in her hometown, Hobart, kept her feeling alive and she showed all the signs of a creative kid. She was a silent kid and mostly remained engrossed in nature. She got enrolled in the Clarence High School, then went to the University of Tasmania for her higher studies and started her tryst with performing arts with the Old Nick Company and later, she got serious about her career in arts and hence joined National Institute of Dramatic Art, Sydney, graduating in 1992.

Being continuously involved with theatricals through her high school days and later in college, she started doing plays once she was out of college. She joined Bell Shakespeare, a theatre company, which true to its name, was into doing Shakespearean plays. She got the lead role in 1993s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and played Juliet with such warmth and affection, that she subsequently went on to star in theatre company’s other Shakespearean retellings ‘Hamlet’, ‘Richard 3’ and ‘Macbeth’.

She kept auditioning for roles in films and TV and it wasn’t late before she caught the eyes of several talent agents and casting directors through her plays. She was signed on for the film ‘Dad and Dave: On Our Selection’, where she acted opposite established actors such as Geoffrey Rush, Leo McKern and John Sutherland.

Once ‘Dad and Dave: On Our Selection’ released, more people saw the glimpse of how good an actor she was, more offers rained in on her and she made appearances in films like ‘River Street’ and ‘Blackrock’, which were somehow less known but provided her with a solid platform to exhibit her talent.

Her 1998 Tasmanian film ‘The Sound of One Hand Clapping’ got her noticed in the United States, and then there was a long wait for a call from Hollywood, and meanwhile, she kept appearing in TV shows like ‘Corridors of Power’ and ‘Young Lion’.

Her first Hollywood film came her way in 2003 in form of the second instalment in the highly regarded science fiction action franchise, ‘The Matrix Reloaded’, where she played the role of Maggie.

As of July 2017, Essie Davis’ net worth is estimated to be around USD 2 million.