
Jacki Weaver
Jacqueline Ruth Weaver AO (born May 25, 1947) is an Australian actress. Weaver emerged in the 1970s as a symbol of the Australian New Wave through her work in Ozploitation films such as Stork (1971), Alvin Purple (1973), and Petersen (1974). She later she starred in Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Caddie (1976), Squizzy Taylor (1982), and well as number of made-for-television movies, miniseries, and Australian productions of some of the most revered plays including Death of a Salesman and Streetcar Named Desire.
In 2010, Weaver has garnered critical acclaim and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination and won National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as the matriarch of a criminal family in the crime film Animal Kingdom. She received another Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination for performance in the romantic comedy-drama film Silver Linings Playbook (2012). The following years, Weaver appeared in films The Five-Year Engagement (2012), Parkland (2013), Magic in the Moonlight (2014), The Disaster Artist (2017), Bird Box (2018), Widows (2018), Poms (2019), Stage Mother (2020), and Father Stu (2022).
On television, Weaver starred in the Starz comedy series, Blunt Talk (2015–2016), Fox Showcase political thriller Secret City (2016–19), Stan science fiction series Bloom (2019–20) and Epix thriller Perpetual Grace, LTD (2019). In 2021, she began appearing in the recurring role as Caroline Warner in the Paramount Network neo-Western series, Yellowstone.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.483 |
Birthday | 1947-05-25 |
Place of Birth | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
Also Known As | 재키 위버, جکی ویور, |

1975

Picnic at Hanging Rock
7.2/799
In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the g...
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Picnic at Hanging Rock

1973

Alvin Purple
5.6/18
Alvin is your average guy, except for the fact women find him irresistible and chase him everywhere. He tries to avoid them and get psychiatric help b...
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Alvin Purple

2008

Three Blind Mice
5.7/10
Three young Navy officers hit Sydney for one last night on land before being shipped over to the Gulf to fight. Sam has been mistreated at sea and is...
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Three Blind Mice

1975

A Recollection... Hanging Rock 1900
6/1
A documentary about the disappearance of school girls on St. Valentine's Day, 1900 at Australia's Hanging Rock.
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A Recollection... Hanging Rock 1900

2023

Wildflower
7.5/100
The story of Bea Johnson from birth to graduation as she navigates life with an intellectually disabled parent and an extended family who can't quite...
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Wildflower

2010

Animal Kingdom
6.8/830
Joshua “J” is taken in by his extended family after his mother dies of an overdose. The clan, ruled by J’s scheming grandmother, is heavily involved i...
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Animal Kingdom

2012

The Five-Year Engagement
5.847/1337
Exactly one year after Tom meets Violet, he surprises her with a wedding ring. By all accounts, Tom and Violet are destined for their happily ever aft...
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The Five-Year Engagement

2012

Silver Linings Playbook
7.145/12091
After losing his job and wife, and spending time in a institution, a former teacher winds up living with his parents. He wants to rebuild his life and...
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Silver Linings Playbook

1996

Cosi
6.3/34
Lewis, a young amateur theater director, is offered a job with a governmental program for the rehabilitation of mentally ill patients in a Sydney inst...
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Cosi

1971

Stork
5.9/7
Stork is a gangly young man, a virgin with an overactive imagination who thinks he’s a revolutionary. Bored with a design job at General Motors Holden...
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Stork

1970

The Naked Bunyip
5.7/7
A shy young man is hired by an ad agency to conduct a survey on sex in Australia. The somewhat clueless young man investigates homosexuality, transves...
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The Naked Bunyip

2013

Stoker
6.644/2256
After India Stoker's father dies, her Uncle Charlie, who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect...
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Stoker

2010

Summer Coda
4.7/11
Hitchhiking home to a family she's never known, Heidi meets Michael. In the stunning orange groves of country Australia, they embark on an adventure,...
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Summer Coda

1974

Jock Petersen
3.3/3
Tony Petersen, a married electrician and ex-footballer, goes to university to study English. Petersen is odd man out at the uni. He receives extracurr...
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Jock Petersen

2012

Lois
0/0
When a mysterious letter tips Lois over the edge, she is driven to wild lengths to address some unfinished business.
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Lois

2014

Haunt
5.234/229
An introverted teen sparks with his new neighbor, and together the couple begins to explore the haunted house that his family has unknowingly just pur...
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Haunt

1976

Caddie
5.8/5
Proud and classy Caddie Marsh is forced to get a job as a barmaid and raise two children on her own after her husband walks out on her.
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Caddie

2013

Parkland
6.2/365
November 22nd, 1963 was a day that changed the world forever — when young American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. This f...
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Parkland

1982

Squizzy Taylor
4.5/2
This Australian crime drama chronicles the life of notorious, keen witted, acid tongued 1920s Melbourne gangster Squizzy Taylor. Wormy and diminutive,...
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Squizzy Taylor

1983

Abra Cadabra
5.8/2
Dr Cadabra, an eccentric magician, lives in outer space with his son Abra and their pets - Stella the star cat and Zodiac the space dog. When all fou...
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Abra Cadabra

1975

The Removalists
3/1
An adaptation of David Williamson's play; John Hargreaves and Peter Cummins star as a good and bad cop who assist a battered wife as she tries to esca...
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The Removalists

2014

Magic in the Moonlight
6.5/2082
Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.
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Magic in the Moonlight

2014

The Voices
6.2/1791
A mentally unhinged factory worker must decide whether to listen to his talking cat and become a killer, or follow his dog's advice to keep striving f...
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The Voices


Larrikins
0/0
When an uptight bilby escapes his sheltered life from his family burrow, he ventures out and finds himself launched on a musical adventure across the...
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Larrikins

1975

Polly My Love
0/0
An Australian-set romance starring Jacki Weaver.
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Polly My Love

2014

Reclaim
5.2/144
After their newly adopted daughter goes missing in a small town, Steven and Shannon will stop at nothing to uncover the truth behind her disappearance...
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Reclaim

1986

The Challenge
3/1
The story of the 1983 America's Cup challenge, where the Australian team financed by business tycoon Alan Bond, finally wrests the cup from the New Yo...
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The Challenge

2015

Equals
6.1/1377
A futuristic love story set in a world where emotions have been eradicated.
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Equals


The Wonder Yard
0/0
Following the death of her husband of fifty years, Dinah devotes all her efforts to building an ambitious wonderland in her garden.
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The Wonder Yard

2014

Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks
3.2/4
A retired woman hires a dance instructor to give her private dance lessons at her home -- one per week for six weeks. What begins as an antagonistic r...
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Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks

2019

Zeroville
5.1/90
A young actor arrives in Hollywood in 1969 during a transitional time in the Industry.
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Zeroville

2015

Last Cab to Darwin
6.863/73
Rex is a loner, and when he's told he doesn't have long to live, he embarks on an epic drive through the Australian outback from Broken Hill to Darwin...
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Last Cab to Darwin

1985

The Perfectionist
0/0
Barbara and Steward are happily married and have three kids. But one day Barbara decides that her children are old enough now and she can quit as hous...
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The Perfectionist

2017

The Disaster Artist
7.1/3549
An aspiring actor in Hollywood meets an enigmatic stranger by the name of Tommy Wiseau, the meeting leads the actor down a path nobody could have pred...
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The Disaster Artist

1976

Do I Have to Kill My Child?
0/0
A disturbing drama about a young mother who physically abuses her baby. Feeling overwhelmed and aware that she's not coping after the birth of her thi...
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Do I Have to Kill My Child?

2016

Goldstone
6/115
Indigenous Detective Jay Swan arrives in the frontier town of Goldstone on a missing persons inquiry. What seems like a simple investigation unearths...
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Goldstone

2014

Florence Has Left the Building
5/2
Its the annual Christmas Eve concert at the Marigold House Assisted Living Facility. All her friends are dying and Florence wants out. When the facili...
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Florence Has Left the Building

2017

Small Crimes
5.4/275
A disgraced former cop, fresh off a six-year prison sentence for attempted murder, returns home looking for redemption but winds up trapped in the mes...
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Small Crimes

2017

The Polka King
5.6/298
Local Pennsylvania polka legend Jan Lewan develops a plan to get rich that shocks his fans and lands him in jail.
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The Polka King

2016

Sister Cities
6.7/35
Based on the internationally-acclaimed play by Colette Freedman, the story of 4 estranged sisters who reunite for their mother’s alleged suicide.
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Sister Cities

2017

David Stratton: A Cinematic Life
3.8/5
A compelling personal journey with David Stratton, as he relates the fascinating development of our cinema history. David guides us from his boyhood c...
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David Stratton: A Cinematic Life

2018

Life of the Party
6.1/992
When her husband suddenly dumps her, longtime dedicated housewife Deanna turns regret into re-set by going back to college... landing in the same clas...
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Life of the Party

2018

Irreplaceable You
7/701
A stunning cancer diagnosis spurs Abbie to seek a future girlfriend for fiancé and childhood sweetheart Sam, who's clueless when it comes to dating.
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Irreplaceable You

2018

Widows
6.488/2323
A police shootout leaves four thieves dead during an explosive armed robbery attempt in Chicago. Their widows have nothing in common except a debt lef...
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Widows

2018

Bird Box
6.8/10048
Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.
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Bird Box

2019

Out of Blue
5.2/80
Mike Hoolihan is an unconventional New Orleans cop investigating the murder of renowned astrophysicist Jennifer Rockwell, a black hole expert found sh...
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Out of Blue

2019

The Grudge
5.421/1223
After a young mother murders her family in her own house, a detective attempts to investigate the mysterious case, only to discover that the house is...
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The Grudge

2020

Elsewhere
5.368/19
A man does everything in his power to keep ownership of a seaside cottage he built with his late wife.
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Elsewhere

2019

Poms
6.6/216
After moving to a retirement community, loner Martha eventually befriends her fun-loving neighbor, Sheryl, and forms a cheerleading club for young-at-...
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Poms

1997

The Two-Wheeled Time Machine
5/2
Henry Howard discovers a way to stay young forever, but life doesn't seem worth living without his childhood sweetheart Alice. Risking old age, Henry...
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The Two-Wheeled Time Machine

2021

Penguin Bloom
6.9/313
When an unlikely ally enters the Bloom family's world in the form of an injured baby magpie they name Penguin, the bird’s arrival makes a profound dif...
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Penguin Bloom

2020

Stage Mother
6.4/64
A conservative church-choir director moves from Texas to San Francisco to run her deceased gay son's drag club.
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Stage Mother

2020

Never Too Late
6.1/16
It's been a long time since Caine, Bronson, Angus and Wendell—aka ‘The Chain Breakers'—escaped a torturous Vietnamese POW camp. They now find themselv...
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Never Too Late

2021

Back to the Outback
7.706/732
Tired of being locked in a reptile house where humans gawk at them like they are monsters, a ragtag group of Australia’s deadliest creatures plot an e...
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Back to the Outback

2022

American Murderer
5.9/58
The True story of how charismatic con man Jason Derek Brown bankrolls his extravagant lifestyle through a series of scams. On Brown’s trail: Lance Lei...
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American Murderer

2022

Father Stu
7.141/636
The true-life story of boxer-turned-priest. When an injury ends his amateur boxing career, Stuart Long moves to Los Angeles to find money and fame. Wh...
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Father Stu


Holy Days
0/0
Three quirky older nuns hit the road looking for miracles but end up learning to drive like demons instead. When the last of the sisters of St. Suzann...
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Holy Days

2024

Memoir of a Snail
7.861/263
Forcibly separated from her twin brother when they are orphaned, a melancholic misfit learns how to find confidence within herself amid the clutter of...
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Memoir of a Snail

2018

Oh, Hi Mark: Making a Disaster
0/0
A documentary about the making and shooting of James Franco's ‘The Disaster Artist’ (2017)
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