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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jacki Weaver, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2027Pendulum — Ella-Rose
• 2026Holy Days — Sister Mary Clare
• 2026Trash Mountain — Helen
• Clipped — Shelly Sterling
• 2024Memoir of a Snail — Pinky (voice)
• Hello Tomorrow! — Barbara Billings
• 2023Wildflower — Loretta
• 2022American Murderer — Jeanne
• Dr. Jackie — Jacki Weaver
• 2022Father Stu — Kathleen Long
• 2021Back to the Outback — Jackie (voice)
• 2021Penguin Bloom — Jan
• 2020Elsewhere — Mom
• 2020Never Too Late — Norma McCarthy
• 2020Stage Mother — Maybelline Metcalf
• Bloom — Gwen Reed
• 2019Out of Blue — Miriam Rockwell
• Perpetual Grace LTD — Lillian 'Ma' Brown
• 2019Poms — Sheryl
• 2019The Grudge — Lorna Moody
• 2019Zeroville — Dotty Langer
• 2018Bird Box — Cheryl
• 2018Irreplaceable You — Estelle
• 2018Life of the Party — Sandy Cook
• Squinters — Audrey
• 2018Widows — Agnieska
• Yellowstone — Caroline Warner
• 2017Small Crimes — Irma Denton
• 2017The Disaster Artist — Carolyn / 'Claudette'
• 2017The Polka King — Barb
• 2016Goldstone — Maureen
• Secret City — Catriona Bailey
• 2016Sister Cities — Mary Baxter
• Blunt Talk — Rosalie Winter
• 2015Equals — Bess
• 2015Last Cab to Darwin — Dr. Farmer
• 2014Florence Has Left the Building — Florence
• Gracepoint — Susan Wright
• 2014Haunt — Janet Morello
• 2014Magic in the Moonlight — Grace
• 2014Maya the Bee Movie — Buzzlina Von Beena (voice)
• 2014Reclaim — Reigert
• 2014Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks — Irene Mossbecker
• 2014The Voices — Dr. Warren
• 2013Parkland — Marguerite Oswald
• 2013Stoker — Aunt Gwendolyn 'Gin' Stoker
• Super Fun Night — Pamela Boubier
• 2012Lois
• 2012Silver Linings Playbook — Dolores Solatano
• 2012The Five-Year Engagement — Sylvia Dickerson-Barnes
• 2010Animal Kingdom — Janine 'Smurf' Cody
• 2010Summer Coda — Jen
• 2009Three Blind Mice — Bernie
• Satisfaction — Gillian
• 1997The Two-Wheeled Time Machine — Older Alice
• 1996Cosi — Cherry
• The Challenge — Rasa Bertrand
• 1985The Perfectionist — Barbara Gunn
• 1983Abra Cadabra — Primrose Buttercup
• 1983The Girl From Moonooloo — Jacki
• 1982Squizzy Taylor — Dolly
• Water Under the Bridge — Maggie McGhee
• 1976Caddie — Josie
• 1976Do I Have to Kill My Child? — Dianne
• 1975Picnic at Hanging Rock — Minnie
• 1975Polly My Love — Polly
• 1975The Removalists — Marilyn Carter
• 1974Petersen — Susie Petersen
• 1973Alvin Purple — Second Sugar Girl
• 1971Stork — Anna
• Homicide — Jill Henderson, Kay Thomas, Petra Kendrix, Annette Bishop, Wilma Steiner, Vicki Gaye, Sue Ryan, Hettie, Anne Johnson
• Larrikins — Doris (voice)
• Salvation Creek — Esther
• The Rockford Files — Karma
• The Wonder Yard — Dinah

Appearances as themselves (7)

• Australia: An Unofficial History — Self
• 2018Oh, Hi Mark: Making a Disaster — Self
• 2017David Stratton: A Cinematic Life — Self
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
• 1975A Recollection... Hanging Rock 1900 — Self (archive photos)
• 1970The Naked Bunyip — Herself