Jacki Weaver Movies and Career Information

Jacki Weaver (born 25 May 1947) is an Australian stage, television and film actress. Weaver has won three Australian Film Institute awards, and a National Board of Review award for her role in Animal Kingdom. Her work has also earned her a Satellite Award nomination. Jacki Weaver's father was a Sydney solicitor, her mother a migrant from northern England. She attended Hornsby Girls High School. Weaver was lauded by critics for her performance as Janine 'Smurf' Cody in the Australian crime drama Animal Kingdom. Deadline Hollywood said: (Weaver, whose performance) dynamic turn in the film would probably be a slam dunk if it could generate any Oscar heat. It’s exactly the kind of gritty character role that actors love to reward. The early screener gambit is a way to start. On her character, Weaver said: "If you are playing bad people, you mustn't make outside judgments of them, otherwise it's going to be too hard to get into their skin. You've got to just concentrate on working out what motivates them rather than making a moral judgment," Weaver tells us. "But then afterward when you let go of it and you watch it up there on the screen, I think she's just despicable. I can't stand