1. Jacqueline Ruth Weaver was born on 25 May 1947 and is an Australian theatre, film, and television actress.
35 Facts About Jacki Weaver
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Jacki Weaver emerged in the 1970s during the Australian New Wave through her work in Ozploitation films such as Stork, Alvin Purple, and Petersen.
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Jacki Weaver later starred in Picnic at Hanging Rock, Caddie, Squizzy Taylor, and a number of television films and miniseries.
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Jacki Weaver starred in Australian productions of plays such as Death of a Salesman and A Streetcar Named Desire.
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Jacki Weaver won the AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in Stork and the AACTA Award for Best Supporting Actress in Film for her performance in Caddie.
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Jacki Weaver garnered later acclaim for starring in the crime film Animal Kingdom, receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, winning the AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and winning the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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Jacki Weaver was again nominated for an Academy Award for the comedy-drama film Silver Linings Playbook.
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In following years, Jacki Weaver appeared in the films The Five-Year Engagement, Parkland, Magic in the Moonlight, The Disaster Artist, Bird Box, Widows, Poms, Stage Mother, and Father Stu.
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On television, Jacki Weaver starred in the Starz comedy series Blunt Talk, the Fox Showcase political thriller Secret City, the Epix thriller Perpetual Grace, LTD, and the Stan science fiction series Bloom.
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Jacqueline Ruth Jacki Weaver was born in Hurstville, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales.
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Jacki Weaver's mother, Edith, was a migrant from England, and her father, Arthur Weaver, was a Sydney solicitor.
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Jacki Weaver attended Hornsby Girls' High School and was Dux of her school.
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Jacki Weaver won a scholarship to study sociology at university, but instead embarked upon an acting career.
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Jacki Weaver has been working in Australian film, stage, and television since the 1960s.
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In 1963, at the age of 16, Jacki Weaver mimed the role of Gretel to the soprano Janet Rutledge in an ABC production of Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras.
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In 1971, Jacki Weaver made her big screen debut playing the female leading role in the comedy film, Stork directed by Tim Burstall, for which she won her first Australian Film Institute Award.
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Jacki Weaver later starred in the comedy films Alvin Purple, and Petersen.
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Jacki Weaver played supporting role in Peter Weir's critically acclaimed mystery film version of Picnic at Hanging Rock, and a more substantial appearance in Caddie for which she won her second Australian Film Institute Award.
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Jacki Weaver starred in the miniseries Water Under the Bridge and The Challenge, and 1982 drama film Squizzy Taylor.
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Also in the 1980s she appeared alongside Sir Les Patterson and politician Barry Jones on Parkinson Contrary to popular belief, Jacki Weaver has never appeared in a soap opera.
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Jacki Weaver starred in the 1988 ABC drama series, House Rules about a Melbourne house-wife who becomes a member of parliament.
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In 2010, Jacki Weaver starred in the Melbourne-set crime thriller Animal Kingdom playing a gang family matriarch.
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Jacki Weaver's performance received praise from film critics and earned her an Academy Award nomination as well as winning the Australian Film Institute Award, the National Board of Review, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award and a Satellite Award.
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Jacki Weaver made her Hollywood debut with the 2012 comedy The Five-Year Engagement, alongside Emily Blunt and Jason Segel, and starred in Park Chan-Wook's English-language debut, Stoker, alongside fellow Australian actors Nicole Kidman and Mia Wasikowska, and British actor Matthew Goode.
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In 2012, Jacki Weaver was again nominated for an Academy Award for her role opposite Robert De Niro in the comedy-drama film Silver Linings Playbook.
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Jacki Weaver played Marguerite Oswald in the 2013 historical drama film Parkland and same year starred in the supernatural horror film Haunt.
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Jacki Weaver made her American television debut guest-starring as a Rebel Wilson' character mother in her short-lived comedy series Super Fun Night.
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Jacki Weaver returned to Australia appearing in Last Cab to Darwin and Goldstone receiving Australian Film Critics Association for Best Supporting Actress.
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Jacki Weaver starred alongside Diane Keaton, Pam Grier and Rhea Perlman in the 2019 comedy film Poms.
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Jacki Weaver returned to Australia with starring role in the Fox Showcase political thriller Secret City, and Stan science fiction series Bloom.
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Jacki Weaver had a relationship of many years with Richard Wherrett, director of the Sydney Theatre Company.
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Jacki Weaver was married to David Price from 1966 to 1970.
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Jacki Weaver had a son in 1970 with her partner at the time, John Walters.
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Jacki Weaver lived with Phil Davis, a former Sydney crime reporter, Canberra Press Secretary, and executive producer for Mike Willesee, for five years until 1981.
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Jacki Weaver married radio and television presenter Derryn Hinch in 1983.