
Biography
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.
Awards & recognition
- Officer of the Order of Australia · 2014
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actress · 2013 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actress · 2011 · nominated
Filmography49 titles

Yellowstone

Memoir of a Snail

Back to the Outback

Wildflower

Perpetual Grace, LTD

Silver Linings Playbook

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Father Stu

The Disaster Artist

Penguin Bloom

Irreplaceable You

Bird Box

Last Cab to Darwin

Animal Kingdom

Blunt Talk

Poms

Gracepoint

Stoker

Widows

Magic in the Moonlight

Clipped

Sister Cities

Satisfaction

Holy Days

The Voices

Parkland

Maya the Bee Movie

Cosi

Hello Tomorrow!

Stage Mother

Life of the Party

Equals

Goldstone

American Murderer

The Five-Year Engagement

Never Too Late

The Polka King

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Elsewhere

The Grudge

Small Crimes

Reclaim

Haunt

Super Fun Night

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Zeroville

Out of Blue

Dr. Jackie

Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks