Hugo Weaving

Hugo Weaving

1960-04-04 Ibadan, Nigeria 102 Credits

Biography

Hugo Wallace Weaving AO (born 4 April 1960) is an English actor. Born in Colonial Nigeria to English parents, he has resided in Australia for the entirety of his career. He is the recipient of six Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards (AACTA) and has also been recognised as an Honorary Officer of the Order of Australia. Weaving landed his first major role as English cricket captain Douglas Jardine on the Australian television series Bodyline (1984). Continuing to act in Austra...

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How to Make Gravy

How to Make Gravy

2024

as Noel

6.8
Acting

Prisoner Joe writes a letter to his brother Dan about wanting to be with family at Christmas, lamenting how he can't make the gravy for the roast and ...

The Rooster

The Rooster

2024

as The Hermit

5.4
Acting

When the body of his oldest friend is found buried in a shallow grave, Dan, a small-town cop, seeks answers from a volatile hermit who was the last pe...

The Royal Hotel

The Royal Hotel

2023

as Billy

5.4
Acting

After running out of money while backpacking in a tiny, male-dominated town in the Australian outback, two friends resort to a working holiday at the ...

Teacups

Teacups

2023

as Don Ritchie

7.5
Acting

For almost half a century, Don Ritchie would approach people contemplating suicide at the edge of a cliff near his home. Teacups explores Don’s surrea...

Franklin

Franklin

2022

as Narrator

Acting

Eighth-generation Tasmanian and environmentalist Oliver Cassidy embarks on a life-changing solo rafting trip down the beautiful yet remote Franklin Ri...

Loveland

Loveland

2022

as Dr. Bergman

4.7
Acting

In an uncharted future, two hardened souls meet and confront each other with the things they have done and what they have become.

Lone Wolf

Lone Wolf

2021

as Police Minister

4.1
Acting

Through various modes of surveillance we observe an overprotective young woman, Winnie, and her disabled brother, Stevie, caught in a web of intrigue ...

Wild Australia: After the Fires

Wild Australia: After the Fires

2020

as Narrator (voice)

Acting

Charting the recovery of wildlife in the aftermath of Australia's catastrophic bushfires through stories of hope and resilience.

Measure for Measure

Measure for Measure

2020

as Duke

4.3
Acting

An improbable love affair flares up between Karima, a modern Muslim girl, and Claudio, a local musician, in Melbourne's most notorious housing estate,...

Hearts and Bones

Hearts and Bones

2019

as Dan Fisher

6.1
Acting

A shell-shocked photojournalist, haunted by what he has witnessed on assignment in Africa, returns home on the eve of becoming a father. When one of h...

Mortal Engines

Mortal Engines

2018

as Thaddeus Valentine

6.2
Acting

Many thousands of years in the future, Earth’s cities roam the globe on huge wheels, devouring each other in a struggle for ever diminishing resources...

Australia's Lost Impressionist

2018

as John Russell (voice)

Acting

John Russell tells the fascinating story behind the only Australian artist at the centre of the Impressionist movement in France and how his famous fr...

Black '47

Black '47

2018

as Hannah

6.6
Acting

In 1847, when Ireland is in the grip of the Great Famine that has ravaged the country for two long years, Feeney, a hardened Irish Ranger who has been...

Jasper Jones

Jasper Jones

2017

as Mad Jack Lionel

6.4
Acting

Fourteen-year-old Charlie's life changes when Jasper takes his help to dispose of the body of his girlfriend, Laura. He decides to look for the murder...

The Soul of War: Making 'Hacksaw Ridge'

The Soul of War: Making 'Hacksaw Ridge'

2017

as Self

8.2
Acting

A comprehensive documentary detailing the making of 'Hacksaw Ridge', including the real-life people and story, casting, filming, special effects, stun...

Hacksaw Ridge

Hacksaw Ridge

2016

as Tom Doss

8.2
Acting

WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector...

The Dressmaker

The Dressmaker

2015

as Sergeant Farrat

7.0
Acting

In 1950s Australia, beautiful, talented dressmaker Tilly returns to her tiny hometown to right wrongs from her past. As she tries to reconcile with he...

Strangerland

Strangerland

2015

as Detective David Rae

5.3
Acting

Newly arrived to a remote desert town, Catherine and Matthew are tormented by a suspicion when their two teenage children mysteriously vanish.

Between a Frock and a Hard Place

Between a Frock and a Hard Place

2015

as Self

7.8
Acting

This is the story behind one of the world’s most loved films; about three unlikely Australian hero-(ine)s daring to step up from the shadows in their ...

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

2014

as Elrond

7.3
Acting

Following Smaug's attack on Laketown, Bilbo and the dwarves try to defend Erebor's mountain of treasure from others who claim it: the men of the ruine...

Healing

Healing

2014

as Senior Officer Matt Perry

5.9
Acting

Viktor Kahdem is a man who has almost given up on life, sentenced to a low-security prison farm, a completely non-threatening environment where it is ...

The Mule

The Mule

2014

as Tom Croft

6.3
Acting

In 1983, a naive man is detained by Australian Federal Police with lethal narcotics hidden in his stomach. After being apprehended, ‘The Mule’ makes a...

The Turning

The Turning

2013

as Bob Lang

5.6
Acting

Seventeen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winni...

Mystery Road

Mystery Road

2013

as Johnno

6.2
Acting

A murdered girl is found under a bridge on a remote road and indigenous detective Jay Swan gets the case. Jay finds that no-one is that interested in ...

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

2012

as Elrond

7.4
Acting

Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit enjoying his quiet life, is swept into an epic quest by Gandalf the Grey and thirteen dwarves who seek to reclaim their mounta...

Cloud Atlas

Cloud Atlas

2012

as Haskell Moore / Tadeusz Kesselring / Bill Smoke / Nurse Noakes / Boardman Mephi / Old Georgie

6.9
Acting

A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and con...

Ship of Theseus

Ship of Theseus

2012

Producer

7.0
Producing

Three stories about persons forced to think about the ethics and moral issues raised by medical advances.

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

2012

as (archive footage)

7.6
Acting

A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between ma...

Happy Feet Two

Happy Feet Two

2011

as Noah (voice)

6.2
Acting

Mumble the penguin has a problem: his son Erik, who is reluctant to dance, encounters the Mighty Sven — a penguin who can fly! Things get worse for Mu...

Captain America: Behind the Skull

Captain America: Behind the Skull

2011

as Himself

6.0
Acting

A look back at the history of Red Skull, casting the role, and creating the character's right look for the movie.

Captain America: The First Avenger

Captain America: The First Avenger

2011

as Johann Schmidt / Red Skull

7.0
Acting

During World War II, Steve Rogers is a sickly man from Brooklyn who's transformed into super-soldier Captain America to aid in the war effort. Rogers ...

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

2011

as Megatron (voice)

6.2
Acting

The Autobots continue to work for NEST, now no longer in secret. But after discovering a strange artifact during a mission in Chernobyl, it becomes ap...

The Key Man

The Key Man

2011

as Vincent

3.8
Acting

An insurance salesman gets mixed up with two gangsters in effort to make more money and provide for his family, but things don't go as he planned.

I, Spry

2010

as Narrator (voice)

Acting

With a nuclear arms race set to escalate the Cold War, Prime Minister Menzies appoints Colonel Charles Spry to take charge of the fledgling Australian...

Oranges and Sunshine

Oranges and Sunshine

2010

as Jack

6.9
Acting

The story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovers one of the most significant social scandals in recent times – the force...

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole

2010

as Noctus / Grimble (voice)

6.8
Acting

When a young owl is abducted by an evil Owl army, he must escape with new-found friends and seek the legendary Guardians to stop the menace.

The Wolfman

The Wolfman

2010

as Inspector Francis Abberline

5.9
Acting

Lawrence Talbot, an American man on a visit to Victorian London to make amends with his estranged father, gets bitten by a werewolf and, after a moonl...

Tackling Peace

Tackling Peace

2009

as Narrator

Acting

Tackling Peace is the inspirational story of Israeli and Palestinian youths who unite over the game of Australian football. Tackling Peace goes behind...

Last Ride

Last Ride

2009

as Kev

6.5
Acting

A young boy travels across Australia with his father, who's wanted by the law.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

2009

as Megatron (voice)

6.2
Acting

Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is drag...

The Tender Hook

The Tender Hook

2008

as McHeath

5.0
Acting

The story is about Iris's rise to the apex of a love/power triangle that includes her roguish English lover, McHeath, and Art, an earnest young boxer....

Transformers

Transformers

2007

as Megatron (voice)

6.8
Acting

Young teenager Sam Witwicky becomes involved in the ancient struggle between two extraterrestrial factions of transforming robots – the heroic Autobot...

In the Company of Actors

In the Company of Actors

2007

as Self / Judge Brack

Acting

Within the world of theatre the rehearsal room is a sacred space -- the private domain where boundaries are pushed, risks taken, mistakes made, vulner...

The Girl Who Swallowed Bees

The Girl Who Swallowed Bees

2007

as Narrator

8.0
Acting

A charming animated fable with live action. This is a story about a teenage girl (Pia Miranda) who suffers from depression and dreams and sketches way...

Happy Feet

Happy Feet

2006

as Noah (voice)

6.2
Acting

Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fier...

V for Vendetta

V for Vendetta

2006

as V / William Rookwood

7.9
Acting

In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as “V” conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive B...

Little Fish

Little Fish

2005

as Lionel

5.8
Acting

Set in the Little Saigon district outside of Sydney, a woman trying to escape her past becomes embroiled in a drug deal.

Peaches

Peaches

2005

as Alan

5.1
Acting

This is the story of teenage girl Steph, who is brought up by her fiery aunt Jude after her pregnant mother Jass and Vietnamese father are killed in a...

Confessions of an Action Star

Confessions of an Action Star

2005

as Self

4.1
Acting

A 'mockumentary' on the rise and fall of Chip and Dales dancer turned martial arts action star, Francis Allen Sledgewick, AKA Frank Sledge. When fame ...

Ringers: Lord of the Fans

Ringers: Lord of the Fans

2005

as Self

6.3
Acting

'Ringers: Lord of the Fans' is a feature-length documentary that explores how "The Lord of the Rings" has influenced Western popular culture over the ...

A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'

A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'

2004

as Self

6.0
Acting

A documentary about the making of 'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'.

The Matrix Reloaded Revisited

The Matrix Reloaded Revisited

2004

as Self

6.7
Acting

The making of The Matrix Reloaded: Go to the middle movie's furthest reaches via five documentary paths revealing 21 featurettes.

The Matrix Revolutions Revisited

The Matrix Revolutions Revisited

2004

as Self

7.3
Acting

The making of The Matrix Revolutions: The cataclysmic final confrontation chronicled through six documentary pods revealing 28 featurettes

Everything Goes

Everything Goes

2004

5.3
Acting

A young couple offer to buy the furniture of a middle-aged man whose wife just left him - but they end up with more than they bargained for. Hugo Weav...

The Matrix Recalibrated

The Matrix Recalibrated

2004

as Self

6.7
Acting

The making of Matrix Revolutions, The (2003) is briefly touched on here in this documentary. Interviews with various cast and crew members inform us h...

Mind Over Matter: The Physicality of the Matrix Future

2004

as Self

6.8
Acting

A look at the stunts of The Matrix Revolutions

The Matrix Revolutions: Double Agent Smith

The Matrix Revolutions: Double Agent Smith

2004

as Himself

5.3
Acting

The special effects of the Agent Smith scenes in Matrix Revolutions

The Making of the Return of the King

The Making of the Return of the King

2004

as Self

8.8
Acting

A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King." Created by filmmaker Costa Botes (personally selecte...

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

2003

as Elrond

8.5
Acting

As armies mass for a final battle that will decide the fate of the world--and powerful, ancient forces of Light and Dark compete to determine the outc...

Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King

Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King

2003

as Self

8.1
Acting

Documentary exploring the parallels between 'The Return of the King' and real events and people in history.

The Matrix Revolutions

The Matrix Revolutions

2003

as Agent Smith

6.7
Acting

The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing t...

The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load

2003

as Self

6.1
Acting

This making-of piece offers the standard mix of movie snippets, behind the scenes materials, and interviews from cast and crew on the making of the fi...

After the Deluge

After the Deluge

2003

as Marty

Acting

Follows the stories of the four men of the Kirby family. As Alex's marriage breaks apart, Toby tries desperately to start a family, and Marty tries to...

Horseplay

Horseplay

2003

as Narrator (voice)

3.8
Acting

A small-time horse trainer has successfully screwed up his life. His wife hates him, hie mistress loathes him and his father-in-law wants to kill him....

The Matrix Reloaded

The Matrix Reloaded

2003

as Agent Smith

7.1
Acting

Six months after the events depicted in The Matrix, Neo has proved to be a good omen for the free humans, as more and more humans are being freed from...

The Making of The Two Towers

The Making of The Two Towers

2003

8.8
Acting

A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers." Created by filmmaker Costa Botes (personally selected by Pet...

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

2002

as Elrond

8.4
Acting

Frodo Baggins and the other members of the Fellowship continue on their sacred quest to destroy the One Ring--but on separate paths. Their destinies l...

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

2001

as Elrond

8.4
Acting

Young hobbit Frodo Baggins, after inheriting a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo, must leave his home in order to keep it from falling into the han...

A Passage to Middle-Earth: Making of 'Lord of the Rings'

A Passage to Middle-Earth: Making of 'Lord of the Rings'

2001

as Self

8.0
Acting

The making of Peter Jackson's adaptation of Tolkien's classic work.

Quest for the Ring

Quest for the Ring

2001

as Self

5.6
Acting
The Matrix Revisited

The Matrix Revisited

2001

as Self - Agent Smith

6.8
Acting

The film goes behind the scenes of the 1999 sci-fi movie The Matrix.

Russian Doll

Russian Doll

2001

as Harvey

6.2
Acting

A private detective agrees to marry his best friend's mistress to keep her from being deported.

Russian Doll

Russian Doll

2001

Co-Producer

6.2
Producing

A private detective agrees to marry his best friend's mistress to keep her from being deported.

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

2001

6.6
Acting

A man is forced to confront a dangerous female jaguar and his own past through the sacrificial killing of the beast he has grown to love.

The Magic Pudding

The Magic Pudding

2000

as Bill Barnacle (voice)

5.1
Acting

Meet Albert, The Magic Pudding, Bunyip Bluegum, a splendid young koala and his seafaring friends Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff. Together they fight of...

Strange Planet

Strange Planet

1999

as Steven

4.8
Acting

Alice, Judy and Sally are three Australian roommates who are unlucky in love. Over the course of a year, they endure numerous personal ups and downs. ...

Little Echo Lost

1999

as Echo Man

Acting

LITTLE ECHO LOST takes us into the world of the last surviving Echo Man. Echoes are part of the fabric of nature, the nature we hear, not see. These a...

Making 'The Matrix'

Making 'The Matrix'

1999

as Self

7.2
Acting

A promotional making-of documentary for the film Matrix, The (1999) that devotes its time to explaining the digital and practical effects contained in...

The Matrix

The Matrix

1999

as Agent Smith

8.2
Acting

Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful co...

Babe: Pig in the City

Babe: Pig in the City

1998

as Rex (voice)

5.6
Acting

Babe, fresh from his victory in the sheepherding contest, returns to Farmer Hoggett's farm, but after Farmer Hoggett is injured and unable to work, Ba...

Bedrooms and Hallways

Bedrooms and Hallways

1998

as Jeremy

6.1
Acting

At the suggestion of a straight friend, gay man Leo joins a men’s group, where he causes some upsets by declaring his attraction to one of its members...

The Interview

The Interview

1998

as Eddie Rodney Fleming

6.8
Acting

A duel between a suspected murderer and a detective pressed by people who want results. But whose skin is really wanted?

The Kiss

The Kiss

1998

as Frank

1.0
Acting

Bob is a car nut who's oblivious to his wife Sue's need for some amorous action and Barry's (his gay neighbor) unrequited affections. When Sue mistake...

True Love and Chaos

True Love and Chaos

1997

as Morris

2.7
Acting

A man accompanies his lover on a journey, neglecting to mention that an angry drug dealer is in hot pursuit.

Wild Australia: The Edge

Wild Australia: The Edge

1996

as Narrator (voice)

4.8
Acting

From beautiful but dangerous waterfalls to canyons and underground rivers carved into stone millions of years ago, Wild Australia is a stunning look a...

Babe

Babe

1995

as Rex (voice)

6.2
Acting

Babe is a little pig who doesn't quite know his place in the world. With a bunch of odd friends, like Ferdinand the duck who thinks he is a rooster an...

Ladies Please!

1994

as Self

1.0
Acting

"Ladies Please" is a rare and stimulating insight into the bohemian world that is drag and into the professional and personal lives of three of its mo...

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

1994

as Anthony 'Tick' Belrose / Mitzi Del Bra

7.3
Acting

Two drag queens and a transgender woman contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs, a town in the remote Australian desert. As they ...

The Forgotten Force

The Forgotten Force

1994

as Narrator

6.0
Acting

After the atomic obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, over 36,000 Australian men and women, part of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF...

The Custodian

The Custodian

1994

as Frank Church

4.3
Acting

Detective James Quinlan has left his alcoholic wife, sprouting a bloom of insecurity, anger and self-motivation within him to expose the corrupt polic...

Frauds

Frauds

1993

as Jonathan Wheats

6.0
Acting

The film is a story of the ways in which insurance investigator Roland Copping interferes in and manipulates the lives of others with outrageous games...

Reckless Kelly

Reckless Kelly

1993

as Sir John

4.3
Acting

A satirical take on a modern day Ned Kelly who is forced to Hollywood in order to make enough money to save his family's land. As it goes against his ...

Road to Alice

1992

Acting

Jimmy owes Dimitri more money than he can spare. He decides that a holiday would be a better bet. On his travels he meets Louis and things start to go...

Proof

Proof

1991

as Martin

6.7
Acting

Martin, a young blind photographer, is divided between his friendship with restaurant worker Andy and the exclusive love that Celia—who is terribly je...

Wendy Cracked a Walnut

Wendy Cracked a Walnut

1990

as Jake

4.5
Acting

An Australian salesman's bored wife escapes in a fantasy world with her dream lover.

Dadah Is Death

Dadah Is Death

1988

as Geoffrey Chambers

4.0
Acting

On 9th of November 1983 two Australians, Kevin Barlow and Geoff Chambers were arrested at Penang Airport in Malaysia carrying 179 grams of Heroin. A c...

The Right Hand Man

The Right Hand Man

1987

as Ned Devine

2.5
Acting

A stagecoach driver goes to work for a dying, one-armed aristocrat in 1860s Australia.

For Love Alone

For Love Alone

1986

as Jonathan Crow

3.4
Acting

Teresa is a spirited young girl chafing under the oppressive attitudes of 1930s society, and her father in particular. She fancies her poverty-stricke...

The City's Edge

The City's Edge

1983

as Andy White

1.0
Acting

In an effort to come to terms with his father's death, a young man (Weaving) moves into a rooming house amidst the decaying grandeur of Bondi Beach, w...

...Maybe This Time

...Maybe This Time

1981

as Student #2

4.2
Acting

Fran, the assistant to university professor Paddy, is about to turn 30. She is having an affair with a married minister's aide, Stephen. She returns h...

We're All Going to Die

N/A

as Death

Acting

A man got out of his shitty life thanks to a mysterious voice

Untitled Priscilla, Queen of the Desert sequel

N/A

as Anthony 'Tick' Belrose / Mitzi Del Bra

Acting

Plot details are still under wraps, but it will feature a grown-up version of Tick’s 7-year-old son from the original film.