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Jacki Weaver

Jacki Weaver

Birthday: 1947-05-25 | Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2025
2024
Memoir of a Snail

as    Pinky (voice)

2024
Clipped

as    Shelly Sterling

2023
Wildflower

as    Loretta

2022
American Murderer

as    Jeanne

2022
Father Stu

as    Kathleen Long

2021
Penguin Bloom

as    Jan

2020
The Grudge

as    Lorna Moody

2020
Stage Mother

as    Maybelline Metcalf

2020
Elsewhere

as    Mom

2020
Never Too Late

as    Norma McCarthy

2019
Zeroville

as    Dotty Langer

2019
Perpetual Grace LTD

as    Lillian 'Ma' Brown

2019
Poms

as    Sheryl

2018
Bird Box

as    Cheryl

2018
Irreplaceable You

as    Estelle

2018
Goldstone

as    Maureen

2018
Life of the Party

as    Sandy Cook

2018
2017
The Polka King

as    Barb

2017
The Disaster Artist

as    Carolyn / 'Claudette'

2017
Small Crimes

as    Irma Denton

2017
2016
Sister Cities

as    Mary Baxter

2015
Equals

as    Bess

2015
Blunt Talk

as    Rosalie Winter