Jacki Weaver

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1947-05-25 (78 years old)

Place of Birth

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Jacki Weaver

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 Sale...

Acting

1973

Alvin Purple

as Second Sugar Girl

2008

1975

A Recollection... Hanging Rock 1900

as Self (archive photos)

2023

Wildflower

as Loretta

2010

Animal Kingdom

as Janine 'Smurf' Cody

2012

The Five-Year Engagement

as Sylvia Dickerson-Barnes

2012

Silver Linings Playbook

as Dolores Solatano

1996

Cosi

as Cherry

1971

Stork

as Anna

1970

2013

Stoker

as Aunt Gwendolyn 'Gin' Stoker

2010

1974

Jock Petersen

as Susie Petersen

2012

2014

Haunt

as Janet Morello

1976

Caddie

as Josie

2013

Parkland

as Marguerite Oswald

1982

1983

Abra Cadabra

as Primrose Buttercup

2014

The Voices

as Dr. Warren

-

Larrikins

as Doris (voice)

1975

2014

Reclaim

as Reigert

1986

The Challenge

as Rasa Bertrand

2015

Equals

as Bess

2014

2019

Zeroville

as Dotty Langer

2015

Last Cab to Darwin

as Dr. Farmer

1985

The Perfectionist

as Barbara Gunn

2017

The Disaster Artist

as Carolyn / 'Claudette'

2016

Goldstone

as Maureen

2017

Small Crimes

as Irma Denton

2017

2016

Sister Cities

as Mary Baxter

2018

Life of the Party

as Sandy Cook

2018

2018

Widows

as Agnieska

2018

Bird Box

as Cheryl

2019

Out of Blue

as Miriam Rockwell

2019

The Grudge

as Lorna Moody

2020

Elsewhere

as Mom

2019

Poms

as Sheryl

2021

2020

Stage Mother

as Maybelline Metcalf

2020

Never Too Late

as Norma McCarthy

2021

Back to the Outback

as Jackie (voice)

2022

2022

Father Stu

as Kathleen Long

2024

Memoir of a Snail

as Pinky (voice)

-

Pendulum

as Ella-Rose

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