<P> Her film debut came in 1988 with a small role in South African - filmed American horror Mutator . Shortly after, she won a bigger part in South African short telemovie A Private Life, as the daughter of an interracial couple . Davidtz won a DALRO Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in the 1990 play Houd - den - bek . For the same play, she was nominated in 1991 for the Esther Roos Award for Best Actress in a Supporting role in Afrikaans film . Steven Spielberg noticed her performance in the 1992 South African film, Nag van die Negentiende and offered her the role in Schindler's List . </P> <P> Davidtz moved to Los Angeles in 1991, and quickly landed a role in her first American film, Sam Raimi's Evil Dead sequel Army of Darkness . Soon after, she appeared in two NBC projects, the made - for - television film Till Death Do Us Part and the miniseries Deadly Matrimony . She was also seen in Laura Ziskin's short film Oh, What A Day, opposite Viggo Mortensen . </P> <P> Davidtz next had a high - profile central role in the fact - based film Murder in the First (1995), followed by the Merchant Ivory production Feast of July (also 1995). In Matilda (1996), a feature based on Roald Dahl's children's fantasy, she played the role of Miss Honey, the grade - one teacher of the title character . </P> <P> In 1998, Davidtz played a theologian helping Denzel Washington crack a supernatural wave of crimes in the mystery drama Fallen and a femme fatale linked to Kenneth Branagh in Robert Altman's take on a previously unused John Grisham manuscript, The Gingerbread Man . The following year, Davidtz portrayed a 19th - century woman of the world in Patricia Rozema's reworking of the Jane Austen comedy Mansfield Park and played a dual role opposite Robin Williams in the futuristic fable Bicentennial Man . </P>

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