1. Hugo Weaving is the recipient of six Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards and has been recognised as an Honorary Officer of the Order of Australia.
43 Facts About Hugo Weaving
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Hugo Weaving landed his first major role as English cricket captain Douglas Jardine on the Australian television series Bodyline.
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Hugo Weaving rose to prominence with his appearances in the Australian films Proof and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, winning his first AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for the former.
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Hugo Weaving reprised his roles of Agent Smith and Elrond in Matrix and Lord of the Rings video game adaptations.
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Hugo Weaving's family moved back to Australia in 1976, where he attended Knox Grammar School in Sydney.
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Hugo Weaving graduated from Sydney's National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1981.
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Hugo Weaving starred opposite Nicole Kidman in the 1989 TV mini-series Bangkok Hilton.
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In 1991, Hugo Weaving received the Australian Film Institute's "Best Actor" award for his performance in the low-budget Proof as the blind photographer.
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Hugo Weaving appeared as Sir John in Yahoo Serious's 1993 comedy Reckless Kelly, a lampoon of Australian outlaw Ned Kelly.
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Hugo Weaving played the enigmatic and evil-minded Agent Smith in the 1999 film The Matrix.
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Hugo Weaving later reprised that role in the film's 2003 sequels, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions.
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Hugo Weaving was a voice actor in the cartoon film The Magic Pudding.
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Hugo Weaving received additional acclaim in the role of the half-elven lord Elrond in Peter Jackson's three-film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, released between 2001 and 2003.
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Hugo Weaving was the main actor in Andrew Kotatko's award-winning film Everything Goes.
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Hugo Weaving starred as a heroin-addicted ex-rugby league player in the 2005 Australian indie film Little Fish, opposite Cate Blanchett.
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Hugo Weaving played the title role as V in the 2005 film V for Vendetta, in which he was reunited with the Wachowskis, creators of The Matrix trilogy, who wrote the adapted screenplay.
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Hugo Weaving reprised his role as Elrond for the video game The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth II.
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Hugo Weaving regularly appears in productions by the Sydney Theatre Company.
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Hugo Weaving himself was unaware of the controversy, having accepted the role based on Michael Bay's personal request; in a November 2008 Sun Herald interview, he said he had never seen Transformers.
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Hugo Weaving played a supporting role in Joe Johnston's 2010 remake of the 1941 film The Wolfman, starring Benicio del Toro.
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Del Toro eventually left the project; Peter Jackson decided to direct the films himself but Hugo Weaving was not officially confirmed in the cast until May 2011.
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Hugo Weaving spent the summer of 2009 starring in the Melbourne Theatre Company's production of God of Carnage, portraying the caustic lawyer Alain Reille.
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Hugo Weaving returned to the stage in November 2010 in Sydney Theatre Company's Uncle Vanya, co-starring Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh.
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Hugo Weaving filmed a guest role on Roxburgh's Australian TV series Rake in May 2010.
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In May 2009, Hugo Weaving accepted a co-starring role in the docudrama Oranges and Sunshine, about the forced migration of thousands of British children to Australia in the 1950s.
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Hugo Weaving completed filming his role on the project in September 2010 and returned to Sydney to prepare for Uncle Vanya.
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On 13 March 2011, The Key Man, which Hugo Weaving filmed in 2006, finally debuted at the South By Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas.
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Hugo Weaving was part of the cast of the Wachowskis' adaptation of David Mitchell's novel Cloud Atlas.
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Hugo Weaving portrayed the notorious Vicomte de Valmont, a character he first played onstage in 1987.
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Hugo Weaving appeared in the prison drama Healing for director Craig Monahan, with whom he previously made The Interview and Peaches.
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Hugo Weaving appeared in a segment of the Australian anthology film The Turning, based on Tim Winton's collection of linked stories, entitled "The Commission", directed by David Wenham.
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Hugo Weaving ended 2013 co-starring with Richard Roxburgh and Philip Quast in Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot, for the Sydney Theatre Company.
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From 26 July to 27 September 2014, Hugo Weaving played the titular role of Sydney Theatre Company's production of Macbeth.
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In October 2015, Hugo Weaving joined the cast of the film adaption of Craig Silvey's novel Jasper Jones.
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In 2018, Hugo Weaving starred as Thaddeus Valentine in Mortal Engines.
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In 2020, Hugo Weaving starred as Alfred in Tony Kushner's adaptation of The Visit.
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Since 2021, Hugo Weaving has starred as Glen Mathieson in the Australian intergenerational drama series Love Me.
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In 2024, Hugo Weaving played character Frank Harkness in season 4 of Slow Horses.
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In 2004, Hugo Weaving became an ambassador for Australian animal rights organisation Voiceless, the animal protection institute.
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Hugo Weaving attends events, promotes Voiceless in interviews, and assists in their judging of annual grants recipients.
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When he was 13 years old, Hugo Weaving was diagnosed with epilepsy.
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Hugo Weaving has been in a relationship with Katrina Greenwood since 1984; they live in Sydney and have two children together: Harry Greenwood, an actor, and Holly Greenwood, an artist.
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Hugo Weaving is the uncle of actress Samara Weaving, who began her career in Australia before transitioning to American roles.