About
Jacki Weaver
Overview
Jacqueline Ruth Weaver AO (born 25 May 1947) is an Australian actress. Weaver emerged in the 1970s as a symbol of the Australian New Wave through her work in Ozploitation films such as Stork (1971), Alvin Purple (1973), and Petersen (1974). She later she starred in Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Caddie (1976), Squizzy Taylor (1982), and well as number of made-for-television movies, miniseries, and Australian productions of some of the most revered plays including Death of a Salesman and Streetcar Named Desire.
In 2010, Weaver has garnered critical acclaim and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination and won National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as the matriarch of a criminal family in the crime film Animal Kingdom. She received another Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination for performance in the romantic comedy-drama film Silver Linings Playbook (2012). The following years, Weaver appeared in films The Five-Year Engagement (2012), Parkland (2013), Magic in the Moonlight (2014), The Disaster Artist (2017), Bird Box (2018), Widows (2018), Poms (2019), Stage Mother (2020), and Father Stu (2022).
On television, Weaver starred in the Starz comedy series, Blunt Talk (2015–2016), Fox Showcase political thriller Secret City (2016–19), Stan science fiction series Bloom (2019–20) and Epix thriller Perpetual Grace, LTD (2019). In 2021, she began appearing in the recurring role as Caroline Warner in the Paramount Network neo-Western series, Yellowstone.
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Known for
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2024 | Memoir of a Snail | Actor | Pinky (voice) | 59 Average |
2024 | Clipped | Actor | Shelly Sterling | 69 Fair |
2023 | Wildflower | Actor | Loretta | 61 Fair |
2022 | American Murderer | Actor | Jeanne | 59 Average |
2022 | Father Stu | Actor | Kathleen Long | 65 Fair |
2021 | Back to the Outback | Actor | Jackie (voice) | 69 Fair |
2021 | Penguin Bloom | Actor | Jan | 62 Fair |
2020 | Stage Mother | Actor | Maybelline Metcalf | 59 Average |
2020 | Never Too Late | Actor | Norma McCarthy | 58 Average |
2020 | Elsewhere | Actor | Mom | 58 Average |
2019 | The Grudge | Actor | Lorna Moody | 55 Average |
2019 | Zeroville | Actor | Dotty Langer | 57 Average |
2019 | Perpetual Grace LTD | Actor | Lillian “Ma” Brown | 70 Good |
2019 | Poms | Actor | Sheryl | 61 Fair |
2019 | Out of Blue | Actor | Miriam Rockwell | 58 Average |
2018 | Bird Box | Actor | Cheryl | 67 Fair |
2018 | Widows | Actor | Agnieska | 63 Fair |
2018 | Life of the Party | Actor | Sandy Cook | 60 Fair |
2018 | Irreplaceable You | Actor | Estelle | 65 Fair |
2017 | Small Crimes | Actor | Irma Denton | 57 Average |
2017 | The Disaster Artist | Actor | Carolyn / "Claudette" | 69 Fair |
2017 | David Stratton: A Cinematic Life | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
2017 | The Polka King | Actor | Barb | 57 Average |
2016 | Sister Cities | Actor | Mary Baxter | 59 Average |
2016 | Goldstone | Actor | Maureen | 59 Average |
2015 | Blunt Talk | Actor | Rosalie Winter | 68 Fair |
2015 | Last Cab to Darwin | Actor | Dr. Farmer | 60 Fair |
2015 | Equals | Actor | Bess | 60 Fair |
2014 | Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks | Actor | Irene Mossbecker | 58 Average |
2014 | Reclaim | Actor | Reigert | 57 Average |
2014 | Magic in the Moonlight | Actor | Grace | 63 Fair |
2014 | Haunt | Actor | Janet Morello | 56 Average |
2014 | The Voices | Actor | Dr. Warren | 61 Fair |
2014 | Florence Has Left the Building | Actor | Florence | 59 Average |
2013 | Parkland | Actor | Marguerite Oswald | 60 Fair |
2013 | Stoker | Actor | Aunt Gwendolyn 'Gin' Stoker | 65 Fair |
2012 | Silver Linings Playbook | Actor | Dolores Solatano | 70 Good |
2012 | Lois | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2012 | The Five-Year Engagement | Actor | Sylvia Dickerson-Barnes | 58 Average |
2010 | Summer Coda | Actor | Jen | 58 Average |
2010 | Animal Kingdom | Actor | Janine 'Smurf' Cody | 64 Fair |
2008 | Three Blind Mice | Actor | Bernie | 59 Average |
1997 | The Two-Wheeled Time Machine | Actor | Older Alice | 59 Average |
1996 | Cosi | Actor | Cherry | 59 Average |
1986 | The Challenge | Actor | Rasa Bertrand | 58 Average |
1985 | The Perfectionist | Actor | Barbara Gunn | N/A N/A |
1983 | Abra Cadabra | Actor | Primrose Buttercup | 59 Average |
1982 | Squizzy Taylor | Actor | Dolly | 58 Average |
1980 | Water Under the Bridge | Actor | Maggie McGhee | N/A N/A |
1976 | Do I Have to Kill My Child? | Actor | Dianne | N/A N/A |
1976 | Caddie | Actor | Josie | 59 Average |
1975 | The Removalists | Actor | 58 Average |
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1975 | Picnic at Hanging Rock | Actor | Minnie | 66 Fair |
1975 | Polly My Love | Actor | Polly | N/A N/A |
1975 | A Recollection... Hanging Rock 1900 | Actor | Self (archive photos) | 59 Average |
1974 | Petersen | Actor | Susie Petersen | 59 Average |
1973 | Alvin Purple | Actor | Second Sugar Girl | 58 Average |
1971 | Stork | Actor | Anna | 59 Average |
1970 | The Naked Bunyip | Actor | Herself | 58 Average |
Larrikins | Actor | Doris (voice) | 59 Average |
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Frank or Francis | Actor | 63 Fair |
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The Wonder Yard | Actor | Dinah | N/A N/A |
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Holy Days | Actor | N/A N/A |