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Jacki Weaver
Known for: ActingJacqueline 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.
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Equals
as Bess 
Silver Linings Playbook
as Dolores Solatano 
Father Stu
as Kathleen Long 
Clipped
as Shelly Sterling 
Gracepoint
as Susan Wright 
Bird Box
as Cheryl 
The Grudge
as Lorna Moody 
Memoir of a Snail
as Pinky (voice) 
Back to the Outback
as Jackie (voice) 
Penguin Bloom
as Jan 
Widows
as Agnieska 
Never Too Late
as Norma McCarthy 
The Five-Year Engagement
as Sylvia Dickerson-Barnes 
Perpetual Grace LTD
as Lillian 'Ma' Brown 
Life of the Party
as Sandy Cook 
The Disaster Artist
as Carolyn / 'Claudette' 
Blunt Talk
as Rosalie Winter 
Maya the Bee Movie
as Buzzlina Von Beena (voice) 
Stoker
as Aunt Gwendolyn 'Gin' Stoker 
The Voices
as Dr. Warren 
Magic in the Moonlight
as Grace 
Animal Kingdom
as Janine 'Smurf' Cody 
Elsewhere
as Mom 
Wildflower
as Loretta 
Picnic at Hanging Rock
as Minnie 
Poms
as Sheryl 
Parkland
as Marguerite Oswald 
American Murderer
as Jeanne 
Stage Mother
as Maybelline Metcalf 
Irreplaceable You
as Estelle 
The Polka King
as Barb 
Holy Days
as Sister Mary Clare 
Zeroville
as Dotty Langer 
Small Crimes
as Irma Denton 
Goldstone
as Maureen 
Out of Blue
as Miriam Rockwell 
Haunt
as Janet Morello 
Reclaim
as Reigert 
Sister Cities
as Mary Baxter 
Last Cab to Darwin
as Dr. Farmer 
Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks
as Irene Mossbecker 
Cosi
as Cherry 
Do I Have to Kill My Child?
as Dianne