
Jacki Weaver
Biography
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.
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Known For
Acting History
2025
Australia: An Unofficial History as Self
2024Memoir of a Snail as Pinky (voice)
2024Clipped as Shelly Sterling
2023Wildflower as Loretta
2023Hello Tomorrow! as Barbara Billings
2022American Murderer as Jeanne
2022Dr. Jackie as Jacki Weaver
2022Father Stu as Kathleen Long
2021Back to the Outback as Jackie (voice)
2021Wahl Street as Self (uncredited)
2021Penguin Bloom as Jan
2020Stage Mother as Maybelline Metcalf
2020Never Too Late as Norma McCarthy
2020Elsewhere as Mom
2019The Grudge as Lorna Moody
2019Zeroville as Dotty Langer
2019Perpetual Grace LTD as Lillian 'Ma' Brown
2019Poms as Sheryl
2019Out of Blue as Miriam Rockwell
2019Bloom as Gwen Reed
2018Bird Box as Cheryl
2018Widows as Agnieska
2018Yellowstone as Caroline Warner
2018Life of the Party as Sandy Cook
2018Oh, Hi Mark: Making a Disaster as Self
2018Irreplaceable You as Estelle
2018Squinters as Audrey
2017Small Crimes as Irma Denton
2017The Disaster Artist as Carolyn / 'Claudette'
2017David Stratton: A Cinematic Life as Self
2017The Polka King as Barb
2016Sister Cities as Mary Baxter
2016Goldstone as Maureen
2016Secret City as Catriona Bailey
2015Blunt Talk as Rosalie Winter
2015Last Cab to Darwin as Dr. Farmer
2015Equals as Bess
2014Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks as Irene Mossbecker
2014Reclaim as Reigert
2014Magic in the Moonlight as Grace
2014Haunt as Janet Morello
2014The Voices as Dr. Warren
2014Florence Has Left the Building as Florence
2013Parkland as Marguerite Oswald
2013Super Fun Night as Pamela Boubier
2013Stoker as Aunt Gwendolyn 'Gin' Stoker
2012Silver Linings Playbook as Dolores Solatano
2012Lois
2012The Five-Year Engagement as Sylvia Dickerson-Barnes
2010Summer Coda as Jen
2010Animal Kingdom as Janine 'Smurf' Cody
2008Three Blind Mice as Bernie
2007Satisfaction as Gillian
1997The Two-Wheeled Time Machine as Older Alice
1996Cosi as Cherry
1986The Challenge as Rasa Bertrand
1985The Perfectionist as Barbara Gunn
1983Abra Cadabra as Primrose Buttercup
1983The Girl From Moonooloo as Jacki
1982Squizzy Taylor as Dolly
1980Water Under the Bridge as Maggie McGhee
1976Do I Have to Kill My Child? as Dianne
1976Caddie as Josie
1975The Removalists
1975Picnic at Hanging Rock as Minnie
1975Polly My Love as Polly
1975A Recollection... Hanging Rock 1900 as Self (archive photos)
1974Jock Petersen as Susie Petersen
1973Alvin Purple as Second Sugar Girl
1971Stork as Anna
1970The Naked Bunyip as Herself
1964Homicide as Jill Henderson
1964Homicide as Kay Thomas
1964Homicide as Petra Kendrix
1964Homicide as Annette Bishop
1964Homicide as Wilma Steiner
1964Homicide as Vicki Gaye
1964Homicide as Sue Ryan
1964Homicide as Hettie
1964Homicide as Anne Johnson
—The Wonder Yard as Dinah
—Holy Days
—Larrikins as Doris (voice)
—Pendulum as Ella-Rose
—Trash Mountain as Helen




