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Jacki Weaver
Born: 25th May 1947 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Dept: Acting
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.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 81
Film: 63 (78%)
Television: 18 (22%)
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Filmography
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A grieving journalist leaves the city, buying a rundown cabin in a close-knit, boat-access community. While coping with loss, she finds solace in new ... view
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Esther
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A twenty something gay man travels from Chicago to his home in rural Missouri following the death of his father — an obsessive hoarder who has left ... view
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Helen
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Young couple Patrick and Abigail journey to a new-age retreat in New Mexico, drawn by the possibility of healing after a traumatic event. Patrick is w ... view
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Ella-Rose
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Following the death of her husband of fifty years, Dinah devotes all her efforts to building an ambitious wonderland in her garden. ... view
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Dinah
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When an uptight bilby escapes his sheltered life from his family burrow, he ventures out and finds himself launched on a musical adventure across the ... view
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Doris (voice)
2026
When young Brian discovers plans to close a convent of delightfully eccentric nuns, he sets off with them on a wild road trip across New Zealand to sa ... view
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Sister Mary Clare
Mar 2025 (first aired)
Delves into a forgotten vault of Australian government films, unearthing a kaleidoscopic vision of Australia in the 1970s, a decade of political and s ... view
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Self (3 ep.)
2024
Forcibly separated from her twin brother when they are orphaned, a melancholic misfit learns how to find confidence within herself amid the clutter of ... view
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Pinky (voice)
Jun 2024 (first aired)
Go behind the scenes of a notorious NBA owner's racist remarks, captured on a tape heard around the world, charting a collision between a dysfunctiona ... view
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Shelly Sterling (6 ep.)
2023
The story of Bea Johnson from birth to graduation as she navigates life with an intellectually disabled parent and an extended family who can't quite ... view
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Loretta
Feb 2023 (first aired)
In a retro-futuristic world, charismatic salesman Jack Billings leads a team of fellow sales associates determined to revitalize their customers' live ... view
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Barbara Billings (6 ep.)
2022
The True story of how charismatic con man Jason Derek Brown bankrolls his extravagant lifestyle through a series of scams. On Brown’s trail: Lance L ... view
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Jeanne
Sep 2022 (first aired)
Failed actress Jackie Beat has finally become a psychotherapist. Using role-playing, primal scream therapy, ink-blot tests and even puppets, she is he ... view
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Jacki Weaver (1 ep.)
2022
The true-life story of boxer-turned-priest. When an injury ends his amateur boxing career, Stuart Long moves to Los Angeles to find money and fame. Wh ... view
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Kathleen Long
2021
Tired of being locked in a reptile house where humans gawk at them like they are monsters, a ragtag group of Australia’s deadliest creatures plot an ... view
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Jackie (voice)
2021
When an unlikely ally enters the Bloom family's world in the form of an injured baby magpie they name Penguin, the bird’s arrival makes a profound d ... view
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Jan
2020
A conservative church-choir director moves from Texas to San Francisco to run her deceased gay son's drag club. ... view
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Maybelline Metcalf
2020
It's been a long time since Caine, Bronson, Angus and Wendell—aka ‘The Chain Breakers'—escaped a torturous Vietnamese POW camp. They now find th ... view
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Norma McCarthy
2020
A man does everything in his power to keep ownership of a seaside cottage he built with his late wife. ... view
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Mom
2019
After a young mother murders her family in her own house, a detective attempts to investigate the mysterious case, only to discover that the house is ... view
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Lorna Moody
2019
A young actor arrives in Hollywood in 1969 during a transitional time in the Industry. ... view
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Dotty Langer
Jun 2019 (first aired)
James, a disgraced firefighter turned grifter, seizes a chance, illicit opportunity to reverse his life’s worsening course as he attempts to prey up ... view
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Lillian 'Ma' Brown (10 ep.)
2019
After moving to a retirement community, loner Martha eventually befriends her fun-loving neighbor, Sheryl, and forms a cheerleading club for young-at- ... view
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Sheryl
2019
Mike Hoolihan is an unconventional New Orleans cop investigating the murder of renowned astrophysicist Jennifer Rockwell, a black hole expert found sh ... view
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Miriam Rockwell
Jan 2019 (first aired)
One year after a devastating flood kills five locals in an idyllic country town, a mysterious new plant appears with the power to restore their youth. ... view
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Gwen Reed (7 ep.)
2018
Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety. ... view
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Cheryl
2018
A police shootout leaves four thieves dead during an explosive armed robbery attempt in Chicago. Their widows have nothing in common except a debt lef ... view
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Agnieska
Jun 2018 (first aired)
Follow the violent world of the Dutton family, who controls the largest contiguous ranch in the United States. Led by their patriarch John Dutton, the ... view
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Caroline Warner (7 ep.)
2018
When her husband suddenly dumps her, longtime dedicated housewife Deanna turns regret into re-set by going back to college... landing in the same clas ... view
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Sandy Cook
2018
A documentary about the making and shooting of James Franco's ‘The Disaster Artist’ (2017) ... view
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Self
2018
A stunning cancer diagnosis spurs Abbie to seek a future girlfriend for fiancé and childhood sweetheart Sam, who's clueless when it comes to dating. ... view
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Estelle
Feb 2018 (first aired)
The trials and tribulations of car loads of travellers in peak hour morning transit and again on their drive home to find out how the workday turned o ... view
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Audrey (6 ep.)
2017
A disgraced former cop, fresh off a six-year prison sentence for attempted murder, returns home looking for redemption but winds up trapped in the mes ... view
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Irma Denton
2017
An aspiring actor in Hollywood meets an enigmatic stranger by the name of Tommy Wiseau, the meeting leads the actor down a path nobody could have pred ... view
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Carolyn / 'Claudette'
2017
A compelling personal journey with David Stratton, as he relates the fascinating development of our cinema history. David guides us from his boyhood c ... view
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Self
2017
Local Pennsylvania polka legend Jan Lewan develops a plan to get rich that shocks his fans and lands him in jail. ... view
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Barb
2016
Based on the internationally-acclaimed play by Colette Freedman, the story of 4 estranged sisters who reunite for their mother’s alleged suicide. ... view
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Mary Baxter
2016
Indigenous Detective Jay Swan arrives in the frontier town of Goldstone on a missing persons inquiry. What seems like a simple investigation unearths ... view
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Maureen
Jun 2016 (first aired)
Beneath the placid facade of Canberra, amidst rising tension between China and America, senior political journalist Harriet Dunkley uncovers a secret ... view
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Catriona Bailey (9 ep.)
Aug 2015 (first aired)
A British newscaster moves to Los Angeles with his alcoholic manservant and the baggage of several failed marriages to host a sanctimonious talk show. ... view
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Rosalie Winter (20 ep.)
2015
Rex is a loner, and when he's told he doesn't have long to live, he embarks on an epic drive through the Australian outback from Broken Hill to Darwin ... view
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Dr. Farmer
2015
A futuristic love story set in a world where emotions have been eradicated. ... view
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Bess
2014
A retired woman hires a dance instructor to give her private dance lessons at her home -- one per week for six weeks. What begins as an antagonistic r ... view
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Irene Mossbecker
Oct 2014 (first aired)
When a young boy is found dead on an idyllic beach, a major police investigation gets underway in the small California seaside town where the tragedy ... view
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Susan Wright (10 ep.)
2014
After their newly adopted daughter goes missing in a small town, Steven and Shannon will stop at nothing to uncover the truth behind her disappearance ... view
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Reigert
2014
A bubbly little bumblebee rebels against the rules of the hive to make all kinds of friends—from violin-playing grasshoppers to a hornet named Sting ... view
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Buzzlina Von Beena (voice)
2014
Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud. ... view
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Grace
2014
An introverted teen sparks with his new neighbor, and together the couple begins to explore the haunted house that his family has unknowingly just pur ... view
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Janet Morello
Feb 2014 (first aired)
Seth Meyers, who is "Saturday Night Live's" longest serving anchor on the show's wildly popular "Weekend Update," takes over as host of NBC's "Late Ni ... view
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Self - Guest (1 ep.)
2014
A mentally unhinged factory worker must decide whether to listen to his talking cat and become a killer, or follow his dog's advice to keep striving f ... view
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Dr. Warren
2014
Its the annual Christmas Eve concert at the Marigold House Assisted Living Facility. All her friends are dying and Florence wants out. When the facili ... view
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Florence
Oct 2013 (first aired)
Junior attorney Kimmie Boubier and her two best friends, Helen-Alice and Marika, have had a standing date every Friday night for the last 13 years. Th ... view
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Pamela Boubier (1 ep.)
2013
November 22nd, 1963 was a day that changed the world forever — when young American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. This ... view
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Marguerite Oswald
2013
After India’s father dies suddenly, her uncle Charlie, whom she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her emotionally unstable mother. Soon ... view
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Aunt Gwendolyn 'Gin' Stoker
2012
After losing his job and wife, and spending time in an institution, a former teacher winds up living with his parents. He wants to rebuild his life an ... view
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Dolores Solatano
2012
When a mysterious letter tips Lois over the edge, she is driven to wild lengths to address some unfinished business. ... view
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2012
Exactly one year after Tom meets Violet, he surprises her with a wedding ring. By all accounts, Tom and Violet are destined for their happily ever aft ... view
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Sylvia Dickerson-Barnes
2010
Hitchhiking home to a family she's never known, Heidi meets Michael. In the stunning orange groves of country Australia, they embark on an adventure, ... view
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Jen
2010
Joshua “J” is taken in by his extended family after his mother dies of an overdose. The clan, ruled by J’s scheming grandmother, is heavily invo ... view
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Janine 'Smurf' Cody
2008
Three young Navy officers hit Sydney for one last night on land before being shipped over to the Gulf to fight. Sam has been mistreated at sea and is ... view
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Bernie
Dec 2007 (first aired)
Set in and around 232, an up-market city brothel, Satisfaction reveals the world of five high class escorts and their manager as they juggle the press ... view
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Gillian (2 ep.)
Sep 2003 (first aired)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show, often shortened to just Ellen, is an American television talk show hosted by comedian/actress Ellen DeGeneres. ... view
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Self (1 ep.)
1997
Henry Howard discovers a way to stay young forever, but life doesn't seem worth living without his childhood sweetheart Alice. Risking old age, Henry ... view
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Older Alice
1996
Lewis, a young amateur theater director, is offered a job with a governmental program for the rehabilitation of mentally ill patients in a Sydney inst ... view
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Cherry
Dec 1986 (first aired)
The story of the 1983 America's Cup challenge, where the Australian team financed by business tycoon Alan Bond, finally wrests the cup from the New Yo ... view
Character:
Rasa Bertrand (6 ep.)
1985
Barbara and Steward are happily married and have three kids. But one day Barbara decides that her children are old enough now and she can quit as hous ... view
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Barbara Gunn
1983
Dr Cadabra, an eccentric magician, lives in outer space with his son Abra and their pets - Stella the star cat and Zodiac the space dog. When all fou ... view
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Primrose Buttercup
1983
Set in the 1940s, the story of a post office clerk and part-time pianist (Jacki Weaver) who inadvertently becomes the star of a national radio serial. ... view
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Jacki
1982
This Australian crime drama chronicles the life of notorious, keen witted, acid tongued 1920s Melbourne gangster Squizzy Taylor. Wormy and diminutive, ... view
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Dolly
Sep 1980 (first aired)
Water Under the Bridge is a 1980 mini series based on the 1977 novel by Sumner Locke Elliott. ... view
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Maggie McGhee (9 ep.)
1976
A disturbing drama about a young mother who physically abuses her baby. Feeling overwhelmed and aware that she's not coping after the birth of her thi ... view
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Dianne
1976
Proud and classy Caddie Marsh is forced to get a job as a barmaid and raise two children on her own after her husband walks out on her. ... view
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Josie
1975
An adaptation of David Williamson's play; John Hargreaves and Peter Cummins star as a good and bad cop who assist a battered wife as she tries to esca ... view
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1975
In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the g ... view
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Minnie
1975
A documentary exploring the fascinating subject of the film, its production history and success. The documentary, which was produced by Patricia Lovel ... view
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Self (archive photos)
Original title: Petersen
1974
Tony Petersen, a married electrician and ex-footballer, goes to university to study English. Petersen is odd man out at the uni. He receives extracurr ... view
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Susie Petersen
1973
Alvin is your average guy, except for the fact women find him irresistible and chase him everywhere. He tries to avoid them and get psychiatric help b ... view
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Second Sugar Girl
1971
Stork is a gangly young man, a virgin with an overactive imagination who thinks he’s a revolutionary. Bored with a design job at General Motors Hold ... view
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Anna
1970
A shy young man is hired by an ad agency to conduct a survey on sex in Australia. The somewhat clueless young man investigates homosexuality, transves ... view
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Herself
Oct 1964 (first aired)
Homicide was an Australian television police drama series The series dealt with the homicide squad of the Victorian Police force and the various crim ... view
Character:
Jill Henderson (1 ep.)
Anne Johnson (1 ep.)
Sue Ryan (1 ep.)
Vicki Gaye (1 ep.)
Kay Thomas (1 ep.)
Annette Bishop (1 ep.)
Wilma Steiner (1 ep.)
Petra Kendrix (1 ep.)
Hettie (1 ep.)