Jacki Weaver
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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
Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
as Dolores Solatano
Bird Box (2018)
as Cheryl
Memoir of a Snail (2024)
as Pinky (voice)
Wildflower (2023)
as Loretta
The Disaster Artist (2017)
as Carolyn / 'Claudette'
The Five-Year Engagement (2012)
as Sylvia Dickerson-Barnes
Widows (2018)
as Agnieska
Back to the Outback (2021)
as Jackie (voice)
The Grudge (2019)
as Lorna Moody
Father Stu (2022)
as Kathleen Long
Irreplaceable You (2018)
as Estelle
Stoker (2013)
as Aunt Gwendolyn 'Gin' Stoker
Parkland (2013)
as Marguerite Oswald
Life of the Party (2018)
as Sandy Cook
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
as Minnie
Holy Days (2026)
as Sister Mary Clare
Magic in the Moonlight (2014)
as Grace
The Voices (2014)
as Dr. Warren
Maya the Bee Movie (2014)
as Buzzlina Von Beena (voice)
Animal Kingdom (2010)
as Janine 'Smurf' Cody
Goldstone (2016)
as Maureen
Poms (2019)
as Sheryl
Equals (2015)
as Bess
The Removalists (1975)
Actor
Zeroville (2019)
as Dotty Langer
Elsewhere (2020)
as Mom
Abra Cadabra (1983)
as Primrose Buttercup
Penguin Bloom (2021)
as Jan
American Murderer (2022)
as Jeanne
The Polka King (2017)
as Barb
Sister Cities (2016)
as Mary Baxter
Salvation Creek (—)
as Esther
Small Crimes (2017)
as Irma Denton
Reclaim (2014)
as Reigert
Out of Blue (2019)
as Miriam Rockwell
Last Cab to Darwin (2015)
as Dr. Farmer
Stage Mother (2020)
as Maybelline Metcalf
The Naked Bunyip (1970)
as Herself
Haunt (2014)
as Janet Morello
Cosi (1996)
as Cherry
Never Too Late (2020)
as Norma McCarthy
Oh, Hi Mark: Making a Disaster (2018)
as Self
A Recollection... Hanging Rock 1900 (1975)
as Self (archive photos)
The Wonder Yard (—)
as Dinah
Pendulum (2027)
as Ella-Rose
David Stratton: A Cinematic Life (2017)
as Self
Polly My Love (1975)
as Polly
Larrikins (—)
as Doris (voice)
Alvin Purple (1973)
as Second Sugar Girl
The Girl From Moonooloo (1983)
as Jacki
Three Blind Mice (2008)
as Bernie
Squizzy Taylor (1982)
as Dolly
Stork (1971)
as Anna
Summer Coda (2010)
as Jen
Trash Mountain (—)
as Helen
Jock Petersen (1974)
as Susie Petersen
The Two-Wheeled Time Machine (1997)
as Older Alice
Florence Has Left the Building (2014)
as Florence
Do I Have to Kill My Child? (1976)
as Dianne
Caddie (1976)
as Josie
Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks (2014)
as Irene Mossbecker
The Perfectionist (1985)
as Barbara Gunn
Lois (2012)
Actor