2015 Davis's first feature film was
Smashed. In 2015, she appeared in
The Martian as NASA satellite communications engineer Mindy Park. From 2014 to 2017, she played programming prodigy Cameron Howe in
Halt and Catch Fire for the duration of its four-season run. In 2016, she co-starred as Yorkie in "
San Junipero", an episode of the
anthology series Black Mirror, which received two
Emmy Awards. She was also cast as Mariette in
Blade Runner 2049. In 2019, she appeared in
Terminator: Dark Fate as an augmented super soldier who is sent from the future to protect Dani Ramos. In October 2019, she was cast in the lead role in the
HBO Max miniseries
Station Eleven. In 2020, Davis starred as Kate in
The Turning, opposite
Finn Wolfhard and
Brooklynn Prince. The film is a modern adaptation of the 1898 horror novella
The Turn of the Screw by
Henry James. She also starred as Diana Hastings in
Irresistible, a film by
Jon Stewart about the outsized influence of money on the American electoral system. She also starred in the 2020 romantic comedy
Happiest Season co-starring
Kristen Stewart. In June 2020, it was announced that Davis would be part of the
ensemble cast of
Zellner Brothers' science-fiction comedy
Alpha Gang, which includes
Jon Hamm,
Andrea Riseborough,
Nicholas Hoult,
Sofia Boutella and
Steven Yeun. In February to April 2023 she played the role of Isolde in
Phaedra in an updated version of the play by
Simon Stone at the
National Theatre in London. Her short film
WOACA, her directorial debut, screened in the Short Cuts program at the
2023 Toronto International Film Festival. In May 2022, she signed to star in
Justin Anderson’s directorial debut
Swimming Home, an adaptation of the
Booker Prize-nominated
novel of the same name by
Deborah Levy, alongside
Christopher Abbott and
Ariane Labed. ==Acting credits==