Rachel Griffiths
Rachel Anne Griffiths AM (born 18 December 1968) is an Australian film and television actress. She came to prominence with the 1994 film Muriel's Wedding and her Academy Award nominated performance in Hilary and Jackie (1998). She is best known for her portrayals of Brenda Chenowith in the HBO series Six Feet Under and Sarah Walker Laurent on the ABC primetime drama Brothers & Sisters. Her work in film and television has earned her a Golden Globe Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and three Australian Film Institute Awards. Griffith attended Melbourne University, studying philosophy, before attending the drama department at Victoria School of the Art. After college, she began working with the touring youth company Woolly Jumpers Theater Company, as well as the Melbourne Theater Company, where she appeared in numerous dramas. Griffiths made a name for herself in 1991 when she wrote and performed in the short film "Barbie Gets Hip,” which was screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival. She landed a few TV spots before she was cast as Rhonda, Toni Collette's sidekick in P.J. Hogan's "Muriel's Wedding" (1994), winning her an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Supporting Actress. These successes jump-started her career, landing her numerous dramatic and comedic roles in overseas productions, before making her American cinema debut with her second P.J. Hogan collaboration, "My Best Friend's Wedding” (1997). In the fall of 2001, Griffiths accepted her first major television series role and came aboard Alan Ball’s HBO series "Six Feet Under." Griffith stayed with the show during its five years of critical acclaim, while at the same time, continued to appear an lend her voice to screen and direct-to-video features before returning to telvision to star in "Brothers and Sisters" to much similar acclaim.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · Madam as Mack Leigh
- 2023 · Anyone But You as Innie
- 2023 · A Savage Christmas as Doctor Gabrielle
- 2023 · Bring Him to Me as Veronica
- 2022 · Bali 2002 as Fiona Wood
- 2022 · Great Southern Landscapes as Self - Presenter
- 2022 · The King's Daughter as Abbess
- 2021 · Finding the Archibald as Self - Presenter
- 2021 · Aftertaste as Margot
- 2020 · The Wilds as Gretchen Klein
- 2020 · The Sound as Self - Host
- 2020 · Strangers To The World as Etty Hillesum
- 2019 · Total Control as Rachel Anderson
- 2018 · Dead Lucky as Grace Gibbs
- 2017 · Making Muriel as Herself
- 2017 · Don't Tell as Joy Conolly
- 2017 · David Stratton: A Cinematic Life as Self
- 2017 · When We Rise as Diane Jones
- 2016 · Hacksaw Ridge as Bertha Doss
- 2016 · Barracuda as Samantha Taylor
- 2016 · Mammal as Margaret
- 2016 · Science Fiction Volume One: The Osiris Child as General Lynex
- 2015 · Deadline Gallipoli as Lady Hamilton
- 2013 · Saving Mr. Banks as Aunt Ellie
- 2013 · Patrick as Matron Cassidy
- 2013 · Camp as Mackenzie 'Mack' Granger
- 2013 · Butterflies as Claire
- 2013 · Paper Giants: Magazine Wars as Dulcie Boling
- 2012 · Underground: The Julian Assange Story as Christine Assange
- 2012 · House Husbands as Belle
- 2011 · Burning Man as Miriam
- 2009 · Beautiful Kate as Sally Kendall
- 2008 · Q&A as Self - Panellist
- 2008 · Comanche Moon as Inez Scull
- 2007 · The Sounds of Aus as Self
- 2006 · Brothers and Sisters as Sarah Walker
- 2006 · Genesis: Total Rock Review as Self - Interviewer
- 2006 · Step Up as Director Gordon
- 2005 · Six Feet Under: In Memoriam as Herself
- 2005 · Angel Rodriguez as Nicole
- 2004 · Plainsong as Maggie Jonas
- 2003 · The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina as Albertine (voice)
- 2003 · After the Deluge as Annie
- 2003 · After the Deluge as Annie
- 2003 · Ned Kelly as Susan Scott
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as
- 2003 · Land of the Morning Star as Narrator (voice)
- 2002 · The Hard Word as Carol
- 2002 · Kath & Kim as Rachel Griffiths
- 2002 · V Graham Norton as Self
- 2002 · The Rookie as Lorri Morris
- 2001 · Six Feet Under as Brenda Chenowith
- 2001 · Very Annie Mary as Annie Mary Pugh
- 2001 · Blow as Ermine Jung
- 2001 · Blow Dry as Sandra
- 1999 · Me Myself I as Pamela Drury
- 1999 · Rove as Self
- 1998 · Hilary and Jackie as Hilary Du Pré
- 1998 · Divorcing Jack as Lee Cooper
- 1998 · Amy as Tanya Rammus
- 1998 · Welcome to Woop Woop as Sylvia
- 1998 · Among Giants as Gerry
- 1998 · Since You've Been Gone as Sally Zalinsky
- 1997 · My Best Friend's Wedding as Samantha Newhouse
- 1996 · Children of the Revolution as Constable Anna Welch
- 1996 · Once a Thief as
- 1996 · Jude as Arabella
- 1994 · Muriel's Wedding as Rhonda Epinstalk
- 1993 · The Feds as Angelia Braglia
- 1993 · Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- 1992 · The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as
- 1991 · Police Rescue as Shelley
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Maggie Jonas
- Future · Seeing Through the Mists of Oblivion as Woman Underwater (archived footage)
- 1997 · My Son the Fanatic as Bettina / Sandra
- 1996 · To Have and to Hold as Kate
- 1996 · Cosi as Lucy
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self