| Jacki Weaver | |
|---|---|
| Born | Jacqueline Ruth Weaver 25 May 1947 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1966 — present |
| Spouse |
Derryn Hinch (m. ?–present) |
Jacqueline Ruth "Jacki" Weaver (born 25 May 1947) is an Australian theatre, film and television actress. She is best known outside Australia for her performance in Animal Kingdom, for which she was nominated for the 2011 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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Weaver was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Her father, Arthur, was a Sydney solicitor, and her mother, Edith (née Simpson), a migrant from northern England.[1] She attended Hornsby Girls' High School.[2][3]
She has had a number of relationships/marriages, including with director Richard Wherrett and media figure Derryn Hinch. She has a son, Dylan, and two grandchildren.
Weaver has been working in Australian film, stage and television since the 1960s.
In 1964 at the Palace Theatre in Sydney, Weaver and a number of other Australian singers such as The Delltones and her then-boyfriend Bryan Davies performed a satire on the Gidget movies, in which Weaver performed as "Gadget."
In the mid-1960s, she appeared on the Australian music show Bandstand. In one appearance, she sang a 1920s-style pastiche, the novelty song "I Love Onions."
Weaver's film debut came with 1971's Stork for which she won her first Australian Film Institute Award. In the 1970s, Weaver gained a sex symbol reputation thanks to her performances in the likes of Alvin Purple (1973). Other notable films during this time include Peter Weir's iconic Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), often seen as one of Australia's greatest films and Caddie (1976) for which she won her second Australian Film Institute Award.
In the 1990s and 2000s, Weaver found it increasingly hard to find roles on screen or television and has spent a great amount of time on the Australian stage starring in iconic plays including A Streetcar Named Desire, Last of the Red Hot Lovers and Death of a Salesman and more recently she appeared on the Sydney stage production of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya alongside Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh in 2010-11.
Also in 2010, Weaver starred in the Melbourne-set crime thriller Animal Kingdom playing a gang family matriarch. Her performance was praised 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.
Weaver will make her Hollywood debut with the comedy The Five-Year Engagement alongside Emily Blunt and Jason Segel as well as to star Park Chan-Wook's English language debut Stoker alongside fellow Australian actors Nicole Kidman and Mia Wasikowska and British actor Matthew Goode.[4]