Rachel Anne Griffiths AM (born 18 December 1968) is an Australian film and television actress. She came to prominence with the 1994 film Muriel's Wedding and her Academy Award nominated performance in Hilary and Jackie (1998). She is best known for her portrayals of Brenda Chenowith in the HBO series Six Feet Under and Sarah Walker Laurent on the ABC primetime drama Brothers & Sisters. Her work in film and television has earned her a Golden Globe Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and three Australian Film Institute Awards. Griffith attended Melbourne University, studying philosophy, before attending the drama department at Victoria School of the Art.  After college, she began working with the touring youth company Woolly Jumpers Theater Company, as well as the Melbourne Theater Company, where she appeared in numerous dramas.   Griffiths made a name for herself in 1991 when she wrote and performed in the short film "Barbie Gets Hip,” which was screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival. She landed a few TV spots before she was cast as Rhonda, Toni Collette's sidekick in P.J. Hogan's "Muriel's Wedding" (1994), winning her an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Supporting Actress. These successes jump-started her career, landing her numerous dramatic and comedic roles in overseas productions, before making her American cinema debut with her second P.J. Hogan collaboration, "My Best Friend's Wedding” (1997). In the fall of 2001, Griffiths accepted her first major television series role and came aboard Alan Ball’s HBO series "Six Feet Under."  Griffith stayed with the show during its five years of critical acclaim, while at the same time, continued to appear an lend her voice to screen and direct-to-video features before returning to telvision to star in "Brothers and Sisters" to much similar acclaim. 

Filmography

• The Idea Of Australia — Creator
• When The War Is Over — Self - Presenter, Executive Producer
• Madam — Mack Leigh
• 2023A Savage Christmas — Doctor Gabrielle
• 2023Anyone but You — Innie
• 2023Bring Him to Me — Veronica
• Bali 2002 — Fiona Wood
• Great Southern Landscapes — Self - Presenter, Executive Producer
• 2022The King's Daughter — Abbess
• Aftertaste — Margot, Executive Producer
• Finding the Archibald — Self - Presenter, Executive Producer
• 2020Strangers To The World — Etty Hillesum
• The Wilds — Gretchen Klein
• 2019Ride Like a Girl — Director
• Total Control — Rachel Anderson, Executive Producer, Creator
• Dead Lucky — Grace Gibbs
• 2017Don't Tell — Joy Conolly
• When We Rise — Diane Jones
• Barracuda — Samantha Taylor
• 2016Hacksaw Ridge — Bertha Doss
• 2016Mammal — Margaret Brady
• 2016Science Fiction Volume One: The Osiris Child — General Lynex
• Deadline Gallipoli — Lady Hamilton
• 2013Butterflies — Claire
• Camp — Mackenzie 'Mack' Granger
• Nowhere Boys — Director
• Paper Giants: Magazine Wars — Dulcie Boling
• 2013Patrick — Matron Cassidy
• 2013Saving Mr. Banks — Aunt Ellie
• House Husbands — Belle
• 2012Underground: The Julian Assange Story — Christine Assange
• 2011Burning Man — Miriam
• 2009Beautiful Kate — Sally Kendall
• Comanche Moon — Inez Scull
• 2007Brothers & Sisters: Family Album — Self/Sarah Whedon
• Brothers and Sisters — Sarah Walker
• 2006Step Up — Director Gordon
• 2005Angel Rodriguez — Nicole
• 2005DeKronos - Il Demone del Tempo — Director
• 2004Plainsong — Maggie Jonas
• 2003After the Deluge — Annie
• After the Deluge — Annie
• 2003Land of the Morning Star — Narrator (voice)
• 2003Ned Kelly — Susan Scott
• 2003The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina — Albertine (voice)
• Kath & Kim — Rachel Griffiths
• 2002Roundabout — Director
• 2002The Hard Word — Carol
• 2002The Rookie — Lorri Morris
• 2001Blow — Ermine Jung
• 2001Blow Dry — Sandra
• Six Feet Under — Brenda Chenowith
• 2001Very Annie Mary — Annie Mary Pugh
• 1999Me Myself I — Pamela Drury
• 1998Among Giants — Gerry
• 1998Amy — Tanya Rammus
• 1998Divorcing Jack — Lee Cooper
• 1998Hilary and Jackie — Hilary du Pré
• 1998Since You've Been Gone — Sally Zalinsky
• 1998Tulip — Writer, Director
• 1998Welcome to Woop Woop — Sylvia
• 1997My Best Friend's Wedding — Samantha Newhouse
• 1997My Son the Fanatic — Bettina / Sandra
• 1996Children of the Revolution — Constable Anna Welch
• 1996Cosi — Lucy
• 1996Jude — Arabella
• Once a Thief
• 1996To Have and to Hold — Kate
• 1994Muriel's Wedding — Rhonda Epinstalk
• The Feds — Angelia Braglia
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
• Police Rescue — Shelley
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Maggie Jonas

Appearances as themselves (15)

• Sam Pang Tonight — Self - Guest
• The Sound — Self - Host
• 2017David Stratton: A Cinematic Life — Self
• 2017Jill Bilcock: The Art of Film Editing — Self
• 2017Making Muriel — Self
• Q&A — Self - Panellist
• 2007The Sounds of Aus — Self
• 2006Genesis: Total Rock Review — Self - Interviewer
• 2005Six Feet Under: In Memoriam — Herself
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self
• V Graham Norton — Self
• Rove — Self
• Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras — Self
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
• The Oscars — Self