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Name
Jacki Weaver

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1947-05-25 (79 years old)

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.

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Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

1975 Picnic at Hanging Rock as Minnie
1973 Alvin Purple as Second Sugar Girl
2009 Three Blind Mice as Bernie
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 The Naked Bunyip as Herself
2013 Stoker as Aunt Gwendolyn 'Gin' Stoker
2010 Summer Coda as Jen
1974 Petersen as Susie Petersen
2012 Lois
2014 Haunt as Janet Morello
1976 Caddie as Josie
2013 Parkland as Marguerite Oswald
1982 Squizzy Taylor as Dolly
1983 Abra Cadabra as Primrose Buttercup
1975 The Removalists as Marilyn Carter
2014 Magic in the Moonlight as Grace
2014 The Voices as Dr. Warren
Soon Larrikins as Doris (voice)
1975 Polly My Love as Polly
2014 Reclaim as Reigert
2015 Equals as Bess
Soon The Wonder Yard as Dinah
2014 Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks as Irene Mossbecker
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'
1976 Do I Have to Kill My Child? as Dianne
2016 Goldstone as Maureen
2014 Florence Has Left the Building as Florence
2017 Small Crimes as Irma Denton
2017 The Polka King as Barb
2016 Sister Cities as Mary Baxter
2017 David Stratton: A Cinematic Life as Self
2018 Life of the Party as Sandy Cook
2018 Irreplaceable You as Estelle
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
1997 The Two-Wheeled Time Machine as Older Alice
2021 Penguin Bloom as Jan
2020 Stage Mother as Maybelline Metcalf
2020 Never Too Late as Norma McCarthy
2021 Back to the Outback as Jackie (voice)
2022 American Murderer as Jeanne
2022 Father Stu as Kathleen Long
2026 Holy Days as Sister Mary Clare
2024 Memoir of a Snail as Pinky (voice)
2018 Oh, Hi Mark: Making a Disaster as Self
2027 Pendulum as Ella-Rose
1983 The Girl from Moonooloo as Jacki
2026 Trash Mountain as Helen
2014 Maya the Bee Movie as Buzzlina Von Beena (voice)
Soon Salvation Creek as Esther

2022 Dr. Jackie ( 1 episode ) as Jacki Weaver
2015 Blunt Talk ( 20 episodes ) as Rosalie Winter
2018 Yellowstone ( 7 episodes ) as Caroline Warner
2016 Secret City ( 9 episodes ) as Catriona Bailey
2018 Squinters ( 6 episodes ) as Audrey
2024 Clipped ( 6 episodes ) as Shelly Sterling
2019 Perpetual Grace LTD ( 10 episodes ) as Lillian 'Ma' Brown
1964 Homicide ( 1 episode ) as Jill Henderson
1964 Homicide ( 1 episode ) as Kay Thomas
1964 Homicide ( 1 episode ) as Sue Ryan
1964 Homicide ( 1 episode ) as Wilma Steiner
1964 Homicide ( 1 episode ) as Petra Kendrix
1964 Homicide ( 1 episode ) as Annette Bishop
1964 Homicide ( 1 episode ) as Anne Johnson
1964 Homicide ( 1 episode ) as Vicki Gaye
1964 Homicide ( 1 episode ) as Hettie
1980 Water Under the Bridge ( 9 episodes ) as Maggie McGhee
2023 Hello Tomorrow! ( 6 episodes ) as Barbara Billings
2019 Bloom ( 7 episodes ) as Gwen Reed
2007 Satisfaction ( 2 episodes ) as Gillian
2025 Australia: An Unofficial History ( 3 episodes ) as Self
2013 Super Fun Night ( 1 episode ) as Pamela Boubier
1986 The Challenge ( 6 episodes ) as Rasa Bertrand
2003 The Ellen DeGeneres Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
2014 Gracepoint ( 10 episodes ) as Susan Wright
Soon The Rockford Files ( 1 episode ) as Karma

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