Essie Davis

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.

Dir. Justin Kurzel · With Caleb Landry Jones, Judy Davis, Anthony LaPaglia

The story of Elizabeth of York, the White Queen's daughter, and her marriage to the Lancaster victor, Henry VII. Based on the Philippa Gregory book of the same name.

With Jodie Comer, Rebecca Benson, Jacob Collins-Levy

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces firsthand.

Dir. Baz Luhrmann · With Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Essie Davis

Our lady sleuth sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of late 1920’s Melbourne, fighting injustice with her pearl handled pistol and her dagger sharp wit. Leaving a trail of admirers in her wake, our thoroughly modern heroine makes sure she enjoys every moment of her lucky life. Based on author Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher Murder Mystery novels.

Dir. Fiona Eagger, Deb Cox · With Essie Davis, Ashleigh Cummings, Nathan Page

A terminally ill teen upsets her parents when she falls in love with a small-time drug dealer.

Dir. Shannon Murphy · With Eliza Scanlen, Toby Wallace, Essie Davis

This film, adapted from a work of fiction by author Tracy Chevalier, tells a story about the events surrounding the creation of the painting "Girl With A Pearl Earring" by 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer. A young peasant maid working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous works.

Dir. Peter Webber · With Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson

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.

Dir. Sean Foley · With Julian Barratt, Simon Farnaby, Essie Davis

On a remote Irish farm, five people become unwilling participants in an experiment that goes nightmarishly wrong.

Dir. Billy O'Brien · With John Lynch, Essie Davis, Sean Harris

A BBC adaptation of the Victorian "penny dreadful" tale of 19th century "demon barber" Sweeney Todd, of Fleet Street, who cuts the throats of unsuspecting clients in his London shop.

Dir. David Moore · With Ray Winstone, Essie Davis, David Warner

A grieving single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book manifests in their home.

Dir. Jennifer Kent · With Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Hayley McElhinney

When the mysterious deep space research vessel USCSS Maginot crash-lands on Earth, Wendy and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet's greatest threat.

Dir. Noah Hawley · With Sydney Chandler, Alex Lawther, Essie Davis

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.

Dir. Tony Tilse · With Essie Davis, Nathan Page, Izabella Yena

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.

Dir. Justin Kurzel · With George MacKay, Nicholas Hoult, Essie Davis