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 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 a number of television films and miniseries. She also starred in Australian productions of plays such as Death of a Salesman and A Streetcar Named Desire.

Weaver won the AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in Stork and the AACTA Award for Best Supporting Actress in Film for her performance in Caddie. She garnered later acclaim for starring in the crime film Animal Kingdom (2010), receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, winning the AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and winning the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress. She was again nominated for an Academy Award for the comedy-drama film Silver Linings Playbook (2012).

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

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