Jacki Weaver

Jacki Weaver

CountryAustralia Australia
GenderFemale
BirthdayMay 25, 1947
BiographyJacqueline Ruth Weaver (born 25 May 1947) is an Australian theatre, film, and television actress. Weaver emerged in the 1970s Australian New Wave through her work in Ozploitation films such as Stork (1971) for which she won AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, Alvin Purple (1973), and Petersen (1974). She later starred in Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Caddie (1976) for which she won the AACTA Award for Best Supporting Actress in Film, Squizzy Taylor (1982), and a number of television films, miniseries, and Australian productions of plays such as Death of a Salesman and A Streetcar Named Desire.

Weaver garnered acclaim and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won the AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for starring in the crime film Animal Kingdom (2010) and the comedy-drama film Silver Linings Playbook (2012), the former also winning her the National Board of Review Award. In following years, Weaver appeared in the films The Five-Year Engagement (2012), Parkland (2013), Magic in the Moonlight (2014), The Disaster Artist (2017), Bird Box (2018), Widows (2018), Poms (2019), Stage Mother (2020), and Father Stu (2022).

On television, Weaver starred in the Starz comedy series Blunt Talk (2015–2016), Fox Showcase political thriller Secret City (2016–2019), Epix thriller Perpetual Grace, LTD (2019), and the Stan science fiction series Bloom (2019–2020). Since 2021, she has a recurring role as Caroline Warner in the Paramount Network neo-Western series Yellowstone.

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