Jacki Weaver
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Jacqueline Ruth Weaver (born 25 May 1947) is an Australian theatre, film, and television actress.
She is best known for her appearances in Animal Kingdom (2010) and Silver Linings Playbook (2012), both of which have earned her nominations for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Weaver made a name for herself in Australian New Wave films including Stork (1971), Alvin Purple (1973), and Petersen (1974).
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Magic in the Moonlight (2014), The Disaster Artist (2017), Bird Box (2018), and Poms (2019).
She released Much Love, Jac, her autobiography, in 2005.
Early life
Weaver was born in Sydney, Australia. Edith (née Simpson), a migrant from England, and Arthur Weaver, a Sydney solicitor, was a solicitor. She attended Hornsby Girls' High School and was Dux of her class. She received a fellowship to study sociology at a university but then embarked on an acting career.
Personal life
Weaver worked with Richard Wherrett, the company's director, for many years. She was married to David Price from 1966 to 1970 before marrying Max Hensser in 1975. She worked with Phil Davis, a retired Sydney crime reporter, Canberra Press Secretary, and executive producer for Mike Willesee until 1981 before she married radio and television host Derryn Hinch in 1983. Hinch and she repaid their vows before divorcing in 1998. She had a son in 1970 with her partner at the time, John Walters. She is married to actor Sean Taylor.
Career
Weaver has been active in Australian film, stage, and television since the 1960s. In 1965, the turning point in her career came just before she was set to go back to university and was cast in the Australian television series Wandjina!
In 1963, Weaver mimed the role of Gretel to soprano Marilyn Richardson in an ABC version of Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel directed by Sir Charles Mackerras. "Gadget" was performed at the Palace Theatre in Sydney, Weaver, Australia, by The Delltones and her then-boyfriend Bryan Davies, as well as others, including The Delltones and her then-boyfriend Bryan Davies.
She appeared on the Australian music show Bandstand in the mid-1960s. "I Love Onions," she performed a 1920s-style pastiche.
She appeared on Parkinson's alongside Sir Les Patterson and Senator Barry Jones in the 1980s.
Weaver has never appeared in a soap opera, contrary to common belief. She has appeared in more than 80 plays, including stage appearances in Chekov's The Cherry Orchard and Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, in which she appeared as Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire and A Streetcar Named Desire. Her stage skills were praised with a "Mo" award. In 1980, she appeared in Sumner Locke Elliott's Water Under the Bridge, a television adaptation.
Weaver's debut film came with the 1971 Stork, for which she received her first Australian Film Institute Award. Other notable films of the year include a small part in Peter Weir's critically acclaimed film adaptation of Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) and a more prominent appearance in Caddie (1976), where she received her second Australian Film Institute Award.
Weaver found it difficult to get to screen or television in the 1990s and early 2000s, and she spent a significant amount of her time on stage and television in plays including A Streetcar Named Desire, Reg Cribb's Last Cab to Darwin, and Chekhov's Uncle Vanya with Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh in 2010–11.
Weaver appeared in the Melbourne-set crime drama Animal Kingdom as a gang patriarch. Her appearances earned her an Academy Award, the National Board of Review, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award, and a Satellite Award, among other things.
Weaver appeared in Park Chan-Wook's English-language debut, alongside fellow Australian actress Nicole Kidman and Mia Wasikowska and British actor Matthew Goode, on her Hollywood debut with the comedy The Five-Year Engagement.
Weaver, a female actress in the film Silver Linings Playbook, was nominated for an Academy Award on January 10, 2012. She appeared in Richard Alfieri's play Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks opposite Gena Rowlands in April.
Other awards
- Best Actress Awards for Joy Gresham in Shadowlands and Dr Georgeous in The Sisters Rosensweig
- Variety Club Award for They're Playing Our Song
- 2013 Australians in Film Breakthrough Award
- 2014 AACTA Longford Lyell Award for lifetime achievement
- 2022 Winner of TV Week Silver Logie Award for Most Popular Australian Actor or Actress in an International Program in Yellowstone