FrameThrower · Actors · Essie Davis
Essie Davis
7 films · 457 frames · top-billed in 5 · 2003–2021
Born 19 January 1970 · 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.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 7 films · 457 frames · top-billed in 5 · 2003–2021
- AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role2021
- AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role2020
- Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Actress2015
- Sitges Film Festival Best Actress award2014
- Laurence Olivier Awards2003
- AACTA Award for Best Guest or Supporting Actress in a Television Drama2003
How their films are shot
Measured across 457 frames from the 7 films we hold. This is the look of the work Essie takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 7 films we hold, 51% of their frames are day, 44% natural — the look of the work Essie takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 457 frames from Essie Davis's 7 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.