
Jacki Weaver
Born: 1947-05-25
Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Biography
Jacqueline Ruth Weaver AO (born 25 May 1947) is an Australian theatre, film, and television actress. Her accolades include five AACTA Awards(including the Longford Lyell Award), a National Board of Review Award, and nominations for two Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. Weaver emerged in the 1970s during the Australian New Wave through her work in Ozploitation films such as Stork (1971), Alvin Purple (1973), and Petersen (1974). She later starred in Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Caddie (1976), Squizzy Taylor (1982), and several television films and miniseries. She also starred in Australian productions of plays such as Death of a Salesman and A Streetcar Named Desire. Weaver received international attention and nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performances in the crime film Animal Kingdom (2010) and the comedy-drama film Silver Linings Playbook (2012), the former of which also earned her the National Board of Review Award. This attention led her to receive roles in further Hollywood projects, including the films The Five-Year Engagement (2012), Parkland (2013), Magic in the Moonlight (2014), The Disaster Artist (2017), Bird Box, Widows (both 2018), Poms (2019), Stage Mother (2020), and Father Stu (2022). On television, Weaver starred in the Starz comedy series Blunt Talk (2015–2016), the Fox Showcasepolitical thriller Secret City (2016–2019), the Epix thriller Perpetual Grace, LTD (2019), and the Stanscience fiction series Bloom (2019–2020). Since 2021, she has played a recurring role as Caroline Warner in the Paramount Network neo-Western series Yellowstone. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jacki Weaver, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For

Bird Box

Memoir of a Snail

Animal Kingdom

Silver Linings Playbook

Wildflower

Widows

American Murderer

Parkland

Reclaim

Back to the Outback

Zeroville

The Disaster Artist

Father Stu

Penguin Bloom

Life of the Party

Irreplaceable You

Goldstone

Sister Cities

The Grudge

The Perfectionist

Elsewhere

Stoker

Jock Petersen

Cosi

Caddie

Abra Cadabra

Haunt

Stork

Alvin Purple

The Five-Year Engagement

The Voices

Magic in the Moonlight

Summer Coda

Equals

Lois

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Larrikins

The Naked Bunyip

Out of Blue

Holy Days

The Removalists

Poms

Three Blind Mice

Small Crimes

The Polka King

Never Too Late

Squizzy Taylor

Last Cab to Darwin

Stage Mother

David Stratton: A Cinematic Life

Pendulum

Trash Mountain

The Girl From Moonooloo

Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks

Oh, Hi Mark: Making a Disaster

The Two-Wheeled Time Machine

Florence Has Left the Building

Do I Have to Kill My Child?
