Jacki Weaver
Born: 1947-05-25 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2025
- Australia: An Unofficial History as Self
2024
- Memoir of a Snail as Pinky (voice)
- Clipped as Shelly Sterling
2023
- Wildflower as Loretta
- Hello Tomorrow! as Barbara Billings
2022
- American Murderer as Jeanne
- Father Stu as Kathleen Long
- Dr. Jackie as Jacki Weaver
2021
- Back to the Outback as Jackie (voice)
- Penguin Bloom as Jan
- Wahl Street as Self (uncredited)
2020
- Elsewhere as Mom
- Never Too Late as Norma McCarthy
- Stage Mother as Maybelline Metcalf
2019
- Zeroville as Dotty Langer
- Perpetual Grace LTD as Lillian 'Ma' Brown
- Bloom as Gwen Reed
- The Grudge as Lorna Moody
- Poms as Sheryl
- Out of Blue as Miriam Rockwell
2018
- Yellowstone as Caroline Warner
- Bird Box as Cheryl
- Widows as Agnieska
- Irreplaceable You as Estelle
- Life of the Party as Sandy Cook
- Squinters as Audrey
- Oh, Hi Mark: Making a Disaster as Self
2017
- Small Crimes as Irma Denton
- The Disaster Artist as Carolyn / 'Claudette'
- The Polka King as Barb
- David Stratton: A Cinematic Life as Self
2016
- Goldstone as Maureen
- Secret City as Catriona Bailey
- Sister Cities as Mary Baxter
2015
- Last Cab to Darwin as Dr. Farmer
- Blunt Talk as Rosalie Winter
- Equals as Bess
2014
- Reclaim as Reigert
- Haunt as Janet Morello
- Magic in the Moonlight as Grace
- Florence Has Left the Building as Florence
- The Voices as Dr. Warren
- Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks as Irene Mossbecker
2013
- Parkland as Marguerite Oswald
- Stoker as Aunt Gwendolyn 'Gin' Stoker
- Super Fun Night as Pamela Boubier
2012
- Silver Linings Playbook as Dolores Solatano
- Lois
- The Five-Year Engagement as Sylvia Dickerson-Barnes
2010
- Animal Kingdom as Janine 'Smurf' Cody
- Summer Coda as Jen
2008
- Three Blind Mice as Bernie
2007
- Satisfaction as Gillian
1997
- The Two-Wheeled Time Machine as Older Alice
1996
- Cosi as Cherry
1986
- The Challenge as Rasa Bertrand
1985
- The Perfectionist as Barbara Gunn
1983
- Abra Cadabra as Primrose Buttercup
- The Girl From Moonooloo as Jacki
1982
- Squizzy Taylor as Dolly
1980
- Water Under the Bridge as Maggie McGhee
1976
- Caddie as Josie
- Do I Have to Kill My Child? as Dianne
1975
- The Removalists
- Picnic at Hanging Rock as Minnie
- Polly My Love as Polly
- A Recollection... Hanging Rock 1900 as Self (archive photos)
1974
- Jock Petersen as Susie Petersen
1973
- Alvin Purple as Second Sugar Girl
1971
- Stork as Anna
1970
- The Naked Bunyip as Herself
1964
- Homicide as Jill Henderson