Rachel Griffiths

Rachel Griffiths

1968-12-18 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 52 Credits

Biography

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 A...

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Anyone But You

Anyone But You

2023

as Innie

6.9
Acting

After an amazing first date, Bea and Ben’s fiery attraction turns ice cold — until they find themselves unexpectedly reunited at a destination wedding...

A Savage Christmas

A Savage Christmas

2023

as Doctor Gabrielle

2.0
Acting

After years of estrangement, trans woman Davina Savage returns home for Christmas with her new boyfriend. Expecting her transition to be the focus, it...

Bring Him to Me

Bring Him to Me

2023

as Veronica

5.6
Acting

Under orders from a ruthless crime boss, a getaway driver must battle his conscience and drive an unsuspecting crew member to an ambush execution. The...

Seeing Through the Mists of Oblivion

Seeing Through the Mists of Oblivion

2023

as Woman Underwater (archived footage)

Acting

After the end of civilization, an aged man undergoes a mysterious journey through space and time that takes him through memories, visions, and histori...

The King's Daughter

The King's Daughter

2022

as Abbess

7.1
Acting

King Louis XIV's quest for immortality leads him to capture and steal a mermaid's life force, a move that is further complicated by his illegitimate d...

Strangers To The World

Strangers To The World

2020

as Etty Hillesum

5.0
Acting

A short documentary about the lives of Etty Hillesum and Franz Jaegerstaetter.

Total Control

Total Control

2019

as Rachel Anderson

Acting

Alex Irving, an Indigenous woman, gets media attention after her heroic action. Her life then changes when the prime minister recruits her as a senato...

Ride Like a Girl

Ride Like a Girl

2019

Director

7.3
Directing

The story of Michelle Payne, the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup.

Making Muriel

Making Muriel

2017

as Herself

Acting

Making Muriel gives audiences exclusive behind the scenes access as P.J. Hogan adapts his iconic film, Muriel's Wedding into a stage musical for Sydne...

Don't Tell

Don't Tell

2017

as Joy Conolly

6.3
Acting

Based on true events that changed the law. This is the story of a survivor, Lyndal, a young woman sexually abused as an 11 year old while attending a ...

David Stratton: A Cinematic Life

David Stratton: A Cinematic Life

2017

as Self

3.8
Acting

A compelling personal journey with David Stratton, as he relates the fascinating development of our cinema history. David guides us from his boyhood c...

Hacksaw Ridge

Hacksaw Ridge

2016

as Bertha 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...

Mammal

Mammal

2016

as Margaret

6.3
Acting

After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentativ...

Science Fiction Volume One: The Osiris Child

Science Fiction Volume One: The Osiris Child

2016

as General Lynex

5.6
Acting

Set in the future in a time of interplanetary colonization, an unlikely pair race against an impending global crisis and are confronted by the monster...

Saving Mr. Banks

Saving Mr. Banks

2013

as Aunt Ellie

7.3
Acting

Author P.L. Travers looks back on her childhood while reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big scre...

Patrick

Patrick

2013

as Matron Cassidy

5.0
Acting

Patrick lays comatose in a small private hospital, his only action being his involuntary spitting. When a pretty young nurse, just separated from her ...

Butterflies

Butterflies

2013

as Claire

10.0
Acting

A young artist sits on the sidewalk, struggling to make a living. She makes drawings for the passersby. A businessman recognises her talents and offer...

Underground: The Julian Assange Story

Underground: The Julian Assange Story

2012

as Christine Assange

6.3
Acting

In 1989, known as Mendax, Julian Assange and two friends formed a group called the International Subversives. Using early home computers and defining ...

Burning Man

Burning Man

2011

as Miriam

6.0
Acting

An English chef with a chic restaurant on Bondi Beach trying to put his life and his relationship with his son back on track while surrounded by women...

Beautiful Kate

Beautiful Kate

2009

as Sally Kendall

5.7
Acting

Ned Kendall is asked to return to the remote and isolated family home by his sister, to say goodbye to his father who is dying. Ned also brings his yo...

The Sounds of Aus

The Sounds of Aus

2007

as Self

Acting

The Sounds of Aus tells the story of the Australian accent: how it came about, how it has evolved over two hundred years of colonial and cultural hist...

Genesis: Total Rock Review

Genesis: Total Rock Review

2006

as Self - Interviewer

Acting

With approximately 150 million albums sold worldwide, Genesis are one of the highest selling recording groups of all time. From being one of the most...

Step Up

Step Up

2006

as Director Gordon

6.9
Acting

Tyler Gage receives the opportunity of a lifetime after vandalizing a performing arts school, gaining him the chance to earn a scholarship and dance w...

Six Feet Under: In Memoriam

Six Feet Under: In Memoriam

2005

as Herself

8.5
Acting

A eulogy for the groundbreaking HBO series.

Angel Rodriguez

Angel Rodriguez

2005

as Nicole

4.8
Acting

A pregnant New York social worker tries to help a troubled teenager whose father kicked him out of his home.

DeKronos - Il Demone del Tempo

DeKronos - Il Demone del Tempo

2005

Director

6.0
Directing
Plainsong

Plainsong

2004

as Maggie Jonas

7.0
Acting

Tom Guthrie, a high school history teacher, is faced with raising two young sons after his wife leaves him. Maggie Jones, a fellow teacher, tries to p...

The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina

The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina

2003

as Albertine (voice)

5.3
Acting

Voiced by Elijah Wood, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and others, this film features Tom Thumb and Thumbelina, the tiny, famed fairy-tale favorites, who are to...

After the Deluge

After the Deluge

2003

as Annie

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...

Ned Kelly

Ned Kelly

2003

as Susan Scott

6.1
Acting

After getting threatened by Kelly's friends and family, Constable Fitzpatrick places the blame on Ned Kelly and exaggerates what happened. With the bi...

Land of the Morning Star

2003

as Narrator (voice)

Acting

The western half of the island of New Guinea has been known by many names including Netherlands New Guinea, West Papua, Irian Jaya and Papua. It is an...

Roundabout

Roundabout

2002

Director

Directing

A husband and father suffers a nervous breakdown while driving to work after hitting a dog and ending up circling a roundabout.

The Hard Word

The Hard Word

2002

as Carol

5.4
Acting

Three fraternal bank robbers, languishing in jail, discover a profitable (if not dodgy) way to spend their time. Crime can most certainly pay, if you ...

The Rookie

The Rookie

2002

as Lorri Morris

6.8
Acting

Jim Morris never made it out of the minor leagues before a shoulder injury ended his pitching career twelve years ago. Now a married-with-children hig...

Very Annie Mary

Very Annie Mary

2001

as Annie Mary Pugh

5.4
Acting

Set in the fictional village of "Ogw" in the valleys of south-east Wales. After her father Jack suffers a stroke Annie Mary Pugh is forced to take car...

Blow

Blow

2001

as Ermine Jung

7.4
Acting

A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family....

Blow Dry

Blow Dry

2001

as Sandra

5.9
Acting

The annual British Hairdressing Championship comes to Keighley, a town where Phil and son Brian run a barbershop and Phil's ex-wife Shelly and her lov...

Me Myself I

Me Myself I

1999

as Pamela Drury

5.8
Acting

Pamela Drury is unhappy, and alone. On her birthday she stumbles across a photo of Robert Dickson, and wonders what would've happened had she said yes...

Hilary and Jackie

Hilary and Jackie

1998

as Hilary Du Pré

6.6
Acting

The tragic story of world-renowned cellist Jacqueline du Pré, as told from the point of view of her sister, flautist Hilary du Pré-Finzi.

Divorcing Jack

Divorcing Jack

1998

as Lee Cooper

6.1
Acting

He's Irish, he's ageing, he drinks, is a touch cynical and when he has time writes a newspaper column. On the eve of the country's first election as a...

Amy

Amy

1998

as Tanya Rammus

6.1
Acting

Amy's father, Franco, was a popular rock musician accidentally electrocuted while performing on stage. The psychological trauma leaves Amy mute and de...

Welcome to Woop Woop

Welcome to Woop Woop

1998

as Sylvia

5.9
Acting

A con artist escapes a deal gone wrong in New York and winds up in the Aussie outback in a strange town whose inhabitants are an oddball collection of...

Tulip

Tulip

1998

Writer, Director

Writing Directing

Will, a widower struggling to cope with his wife Ruth's death, is confronted by the harsh reality of trying to cope with grief, loneliness, helplessne...

Among Giants

Among Giants

1998

as Gerry

5.0
Acting

A manager hires Ray, off the books, to paint all the power towers in a 15-mile stretch of high-tension wires outside Sheffield. Ray's crew of men are ...

Since You've Been Gone

Since You've Been Gone

1998

as Sally Zalinsky

4.6
Acting

The story of a 10th anniversary High School reunion, told through the eyes of a doctor who was humiliated on graduation day by being badly beaten up b...

My Son the Fanatic

My Son the Fanatic

1997

as Bettina / Sandra

5.1
Acting

Pakistani taxi-driver Parvez and prostitute Bettina find themselves trapped in the middle when Islamic fundamentalists decide to clean up their local ...

My Best Friend's Wedding

My Best Friend's Wedding

1997

as Samantha Newhouse

6.6
Acting

When she receives word that her longtime platonic pal Michael O'Neal is getting married to debutante Kimberly Wallace, food critic Julianne Potter rea...

Children of the Revolution

Children of the Revolution

1996

as Constable Anna Welch

5.7
Acting

A man (Richard Roxburgh) the Australian government blames for 1990s political woes blames his mother (Judy Davis), a communist Stalin seduced in 1951.

To Have and to Hold

To Have and to Hold

1996

as Kate

4.0
Acting

An Australian widower living in New Guinea starts a relationship with a woman very similar to his much-beloved wife, but their life together turns out...

Cosi

Cosi

1996

as Lucy

6.3
Acting

Lewis, a young amateur theater director, is offered a job with a governmental program for the rehabilitation of mentally ill patients in a Sydney inst...

Jude

Jude

1996

as Arabella

6.3
Acting

In late 19th-century England, Jude aspires to be an academic, but is hobbled by his blue-collar background. Instead, he works as a stonemason and is t...

Muriel's Wedding

Muriel's Wedding

1994

as Rhonda Epinstalk

6.8
Acting

A young social outcast in Australia steals money from her parents to finance a vacation where she hopes to find happiness, and perhaps love.