Lead actress, onscreen from the '80s.
Jacki Weaver
Active - 1971 - 2018 | Born - May 25, 1947 in Hurstville, New South Wales, Australia | Genres - Drama, Comedy, CrimeShare on
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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."
