Age: 56
female
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.
After a series of earthquakes strike the remote town of Cold Hollow, Oregon, a massive sinkhole opens in the surrounding forest—unleashing something ancient and monstrous. Women begin suffering terrifying blackouts, vivid dreams, and unexplained pregnancies. Local authorities, scientists, and spiritual leaders are drawn into a horrifying mystery that dates back generations. Beneath the town lies a bio-organic hive—home to grotesque parasitic beings known as the Breeders, whose only purpose is to reproduce through human hosts. As the town descends into madness, biologist Dr. Lana Reeve discovers she may be the only one capable of ending the horror—because she herself is not fully human. But the Breeders are evolving, and the pact that once contained them has been shattered. The true terror isn't what lies below… it's what may already be growing inside.
