1. Samara Weaving was born on 23 February 1992 and is an Australian actress and model.
30 Facts About Samara Weaving
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Samara Weaving gained attention for her work in Australian television, appearing on the series Out of the Blue and receiving an AACTA Award nomination for playing Indi Walker on the soap opera Home and Away.
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Samara Weaving appeared in a recurring role in the first season of the series Ash vs Evil Dead.
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Samara Weaving gained wide recognition for leading the dark comedy horror film Ready or Not, which established her as a scream queen.
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Samara Weaving was born in Adelaide on 23 February 1992, the daughter of an English father, Simon Samara Weaving, and Maltese mother, Helena Bezzina.
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Samara Weaving grew up in Singapore, Fiji, Australia, and Indonesia.
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Samara Weaving's father is a filmmaker and lecturer at the University of Newcastle in Newcastle, New South Wales, as well as the artistic director of the Canberra International Film Festival.
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Samara Weaving's mother is an art therapist who teaches museum studies at the University of Newcastle.
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Samara Weaving's younger sister, Morgan, is an actress; their uncle is actor Hugo Weaving.
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Samara Weaving became vice drama captain and appeared in various school and theatre productions.
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Samara Weaving made her screen debut in 2008, being cast as Kirsten Mulroney in the Australian soap opera Out of the Blue when she was 16.
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Samara Weaving then relocated from Canberra to Sydney to play Indigo "Indi" Walker in the Australian soap opera Home and Away.
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Samara Weaving described the experience as difficult, comparing it to a "machine".
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Samara Weaving was nominated for Best Female Performance at the AACTA Awards in 2012.
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Samara Weaving began modelling for Australian underwear brand Bonds in 2012.
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In 2013, Samara Weaving appeared in the crime film Mystery Road, alongside her uncle Hugo.
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Samara Weaving played the recurring role of Heather in the comedy horror series Ash vs Evil Dead in 2015, earning attention after a picture of her in a make-up test was used in a hoax.
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Samara Weaving was cast in the film during her first trip to Los Angeles in 2014.
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In 2017, Samara Weaving starred in the action comedy-thriller Mayhem, which saw her co-star with Steven Yeun and playing the role of Melanie Cross.
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Samara Weaving played the girlfriend of John Hawkes in the film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, for which she was nominated for numerous awards with the acting ensemble, and the title character in the comedy-horror film The Babysitter.
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Samara Weaving appeared in the music video for Charlie Puth's song "Attention".
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In December 2018, it was announced that Samara Weaving was leaving the show after the second season.
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Also in 2018, Samara Weaving appeared in the Picnic at Hanging Rock miniseries as one of three students who disappear during a school trip to the titular Hanging Rock.
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Samara Weaving next starred as Grace in the 2019 comedy-horror film Ready or Not, which was her first leading role in a theatrical American film.
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In 2022, Samara Weaving starred alongside Eugenio Derbez in the 2022 romantic comedy The Valet, which is a remake of the 2006 French film of the same name.
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Samara Weaving was announced in 2022 to lead the action horror film Azrael as the titular character.
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Samara Weaving is set to star in and executive produce the Netflix pilot Little Sky.
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Samara Weaving was cast in Jimmy Warden's comedy-thriller Borderline, Adam Leon's biopic Liz, and an unnamed limited television series based on the Holly Madison memoir Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny.
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Samara Weaving will reprise the role of Grace in Ready or Not 2, and star in the Netflix horror-comedy The Trip, which is an English-language remake of the Norwegian thriller I Onde Dager.
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Samara Weaving has been in a relationship with writer Jimmy Warden since meeting him on the set of The Babysitter.