Jacki Weaver

Jacki Weaver's biography

Jacqueline Ruth Weaver is 75 years old stage actor born at Sydney. She was born on Sunday 25th of May 1947. She is often nicknamed as Jacqueline Ruth Weaver, Jacqueline Weaver, Jacki Weaver, Jackie Weaver. According to year of birth 1947 Jacqueline belongs to Boomers. Birthday on 25th of May means Jacqueline is Gemini. Gemini is a dual sign of Zodiac Belt. One born with this rising sign is very dual and creative in nature with lots of verbosity. They are the most expressive people as they love talking.

She is white australian. Jacqueline is citizen of Australia. Jacqueline´s primary profession is to be stage actor. Jacqueline is recently known as film actor.

Jacki Weaver's family

Jacki Weaver's ex spouse

Derryn Hinch

Jacki Weaver and Derryn Hinch have been together since 1983 for 13 years. He is known as Scrabble player. Jacqueline´s ex spouse was born on Wednesday 9th of February 1944 in New Plymouth.

Jacki Weaver's schools

We found 1 school Jacqueline attended. Name of the school: Hornsby Girls' High School.

Detailed informations about her schools

• Attended Hornsby Girls' High School.

Jacki Weaver's career

Her main focus is to be stage actor. She is famous thanks to The Five-Year Engagement.

Awards and competitions

Jacki Weaver's Awards

• She was awarded the AO (Officer of the Order of Australia) in the 2014 Queen's Honours List for her services and contributions to the performing arts.

Jacki Weaver's Nominations

• She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for work Animal Kingdom in 2010
• She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

What else you don't know about Jacki Weaver ?

Her middle name is Ruth.

Jacki Weaver's quotes

• [on playing the matriarch of a Melbourne crime family in Animal Kingdom (2010)] I found some of my scenes intense and emotionally draining, but that's the nature of the beast. I enjoy that.
• 'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.
• The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.
• Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.
• I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.
• I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.
• I do have friends in Australia who now refer to me as 'Hollywood Jack.'
• I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.
• I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.
• A lot of directors want to storyboard you, whereas the best way to get a performance out of an actor is a collaborative process where you listen to the actor's input.
• You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
• I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'
• I was an adventurer, and I got married a few times. I kept trying to find a relationship as good as my parents'.
• I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different.
• I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!
• I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?
• Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant.
• A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.
• When you get as old as I am, you kind of believe there's nothing new under the sun, but there's always a fresh way of looking at something. That's why I love working with young people. They remind you of things you used to know and have since forgotten.
• I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
• I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
• I'd love to be a voice in Toy Story 4 (2019).
• I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain.
• I love a bit of a sequin and a bead. I do, even though I usually wear trousers, when I put a frock on. I like a bead or a sequin.
• We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
• They call David O. Russell the actor whisperer because he can get stuff out of actors that maybe some other directors can't.
• The eyes are the windows of your soul, and when you're acting, they're one of your most important instruments. Especially for close-ups!
• It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
• It's a very generous culture, American culture. I know you can't generalize 300 million people, but everyone I've met here has been so lovely to me.
• No, I'm so well-known at home I think they think of me like a piece of comfortable furniture that's always been around that they're not going to throw out.
• It's funny in the U.K., where I'm not really known because I never did a soap. My English cousins in the Lake District think I'm not a real actor because they've never seen me in Home and Away (1988) or Neighbours (1985).
• It's a basic tenet you learn at drama school. If you're playing someone evil, you can't make an objective moral judgment. You've got to get inside the character and empathize as much as possible.
• Every director's so different. Everybody has their own modus operandi and I love getting to know different directors in the way they work. David O. Russell is very exciting to be with because he's got a mind like quicksilver.
• A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.
• Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I'm an optimist, so I like to think we've progressed in some ways - in Australia, we get equal pay.
• I've done a lot of plays before where I had to do a New York accent, but never a Philly one before. They do the rhotic 'r' - where you say the 'r' - where most New Yorkers don't.
• I've always said about awards that they're meaningless until you win one, and then they're best thing in the world. The other thing about awards is that they engender respect from areas where it might never have come from without it.
• I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'
• I love pretending to be other people. The more unlike me they are the better - I find other people endlessly fascinating and myself incredibly boring.
• I've had my share of villains and played some fairly nasty characters. But I've been acting for so long. I started out as the girl next door. Now I'm the grandmother next door.
• I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
• When I was seven, I wanted to be Esther Williams. I was drummed out of Brownies because I snuck off to the cinema to watch an Esther Williams festival - my greatest wish if I get to Hollywood is to meet her.
• I'm what you could politely say is, 'the smallest fag hag in Australia'.
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Jacki Weaver's height, body shape, eye color

Lets describe how Jacki Weaver looks. We will focus on Jacqueline´s height, body shape, eye color and hair color. She is tall as 4' 11½" (151 cm). Body build is slim. Jacqueline´s eyes are tinted blue. Her hair is shade of blonde.