Essie Davis

Australian actress Essie Davis has faced a lot of challenges in an acting career that includes TV shows Game of Thrones and Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, films including Girl with a Pearl Earring, Nitram, The Babadook, and her Laurence Olivier award-winning performance in the 2013 West End production of A Streetcar Named Desire, opposite Glenn Close. But the Tasmanian-based actress was unprepared for one of her biggest challenges when starring in the New Zealand film The Justice of Bunny King - mastering a Kiwi accent.

Essie Davis looks different in almost every role she plays, going from wearing a dark 1920s bob haircut as Phryne Fisher in the television series Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries, to a super-short blonde cut in The Matrix films, to a rather messy look with grey roots as the eccentric Helen in her current film Nitram.   It is not only different looks that the Australian actress is able to slip into.