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Jacqueline Ruth Weaver
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Jacki Weaver
Active -
1971 - 2020
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Born -
May 25, 1947 in Hurstville, New South Wales, Australia
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Genres -
Drama
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Comedy
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Crime
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Biography by
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Lead actress, onscreen from the '80s.
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Costarred in a Sydney stage production of
Cinderella
at age 15.
Won the first of her three Australian Film Board acting awards playing an unwed mother in her first film, the 1971 drama
Stork
.
Has appeared in more than 100 plays in Australia.
Released her autobiography,
Much Love, Jac
, in 2005.
Had not made a film in 13 years when she appeared in her Academy Award-nominated role in 2010's
Animal Kingdom
.
Former Australian prime minister Gough Whitlam called her a "national treasure."