Jacki Weaver
Acting • Born 1947-05-25
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.
Filmography
89 credits
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Movie • 1975
Minnie
Alvin Purple
Movie • 1973
Second Sugar Girl
Three Blind Mice
Movie • 2008
Bernie
A Recollection... Hanging Rock 1900
Movie • 1975
Self (archive photos)
Wildflower
Movie • 2023
Loretta
Animal Kingdom
Movie • 2010
Janine 'Smurf' Cody
The Five-Year Engagement
Movie • 2012
Sylvia Dickerson-Barnes
Silver Linings Playbook
Movie • 2012
Dolores Solatano
Cosi
Movie • 1996
Cherry
Stork
Movie • 1971
Anna
The Naked Bunyip
Movie • 1970
Herself
Stoker
Movie • 2013
Aunt Gwendolyn 'Gin' Stoker
Summer Coda
Movie • 2010
Jen
Jock Petersen
Movie • 1974
Susie Petersen
Lois
Movie • 2012
Haunt
Movie • 2014
Janet Morello
Caddie
Movie • 1976
Josie
Parkland
Movie • 2013
Marguerite Oswald
Squizzy Taylor
Movie • 1982
Dolly
Abra Cadabra
Movie • 1983
Primrose Buttercup
The Removalists
Movie • 1975
Magic in the Moonlight
Movie • 2014
Grace
The Voices
Movie • 2014
Dr. Warren
Larrikins
Movie
Doris (voice)
Polly My Love
Movie • 1975
Polly
Reclaim
Movie • 2014
Reigert
Equals
Movie • 2015
Bess
The Wonder Yard
Movie
Dinah
Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks
Movie • 2014
Irene Mossbecker
Zeroville
Movie • 2019
Dotty Langer
Last Cab to Darwin
Movie • 2015
Dr. Farmer
The Perfectionist
Movie • 1985
Barbara Gunn
The Disaster Artist
Movie • 2017
Carolyn / 'Claudette'
Do I Have to Kill My Child?
Movie • 1976
Dianne
Goldstone
Movie • 2016
Maureen
Florence Has Left the Building
Movie • 2014
Florence
Small Crimes
Movie • 2017
Irma Denton
The Polka King
Movie • 2017
Barb
Sister Cities
Movie • 2016
Mary Baxter
David Stratton: A Cinematic Life
Movie • 2017
Self
Life of the Party
Movie • 2018
Sandy Cook
Irreplaceable You
Movie • 2018
Estelle
Widows
Movie • 2018
Agnieska
Bird Box
Movie • 2018
Cheryl
Out of Blue
Movie • 2019
Miriam Rockwell
The Grudge
Movie • 2019
Lorna Moody
Elsewhere
Movie • 2020
Mom
Poms
Movie • 2019
Sheryl
The Two-Wheeled Time Machine
Movie • 1997
Older Alice
Penguin Bloom
Movie • 2021
Jan
Stage Mother
Movie • 2020
Maybelline Metcalf
Never Too Late
Movie • 2020
Norma McCarthy
Back to the Outback
Movie • 2021
Jackie (voice)
American Murderer
Movie • 2022
Jeanne
Father Stu
Movie • 2022
Kathleen Long
Holy Days
Movie • 2026
Sister Mary Clare
Memoir of a Snail
Movie • 2024
Pinky (voice)
Oh, Hi Mark: Making a Disaster
Movie • 2018
Self
Pendulum
Movie
Ella-Rose
The Girl From Moonooloo
Movie • 1983
Jacki
Trash Mountain
Movie
Helen
Maya the Bee Movie
Movie • 2014
Buzzlina Von Beena (voice)
Dr. Jackie
TV • 2022
Jacki Weaver
Blunt Talk
TV • 2015
Rosalie Winter
Yellowstone
TV • 2018
Caroline Warner
Secret City
TV • 2016
Catriona Bailey
Squinters
TV • 2018
Audrey
Clipped
TV • 2024
Shelly Sterling
Perpetual Grace LTD
TV • 2019
Lillian 'Ma' Brown
Wahl Street
TV • 2021
Self (uncredited)
Homicide
TV • 1964
Jill Henderson
Homicide
TV • 1964
Anne Johnson
Homicide
TV • 1964
Sue Ryan
Homicide
TV • 1964
Vicki Gaye
Homicide
TV • 1964
Kay Thomas
Homicide
TV • 1964
Annette Bishop
Homicide
TV • 1964
Wilma Steiner
Homicide
TV • 1964
Petra Kendrix
Homicide
TV • 1964
Hettie
Water Under the Bridge
TV • 1980
Maggie McGhee
Hello Tomorrow!
TV • 2023
Barbara Billings
Bloom
TV • 2019
Gwen Reed
Satisfaction
TV • 2007
Gillian
Australia: An Unofficial History
TV • 2025
Self
Super Fun Night
TV • 2013
Pamela Boubier
The Challenge
TV • 1986
Rasa Bertrand
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
TV • 2003
Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV • 2014
Self - Guest
Gracepoint
TV • 2014
Susan Wright