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