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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Anyone But You
2023
as Innie
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
2023
as Doctor Gabrielle
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
2023
as Veronica
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
2023
as Woman Underwater (archived footage)
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
2022
as Abbess
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
2020
as Etty Hillesum
A short documentary about the lives of Etty Hillesum and Franz Jaegerstaetter.

Total Control
2019
as Rachel Anderson
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
2019
Director
The story of Michelle Payne, the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup.

Making Muriel
2017
as Herself
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
2017
as Joy Conolly
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
2017
as Self
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
2016
as Bertha Doss
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
2016
as Margaret
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
2016
as General Lynex
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
2013
as Aunt Ellie
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
2013
as Matron Cassidy
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
2013
as Claire
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
2012
as Christine Assange
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
2011
as Miriam
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
2009
as Sally Kendall
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
2007
as Self
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
2006
as Self - Interviewer
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
2006
as Director Gordon
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
2005
as Herself
A eulogy for the groundbreaking HBO series.

Angel Rodriguez
2005
as Nicole
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
2005
Director

Plainsong
2004
as Maggie Jonas
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
2003
as Albertine (voice)
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
2003
as Annie
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
2003
as Susan Scott
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)
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
2002
Director
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
2002
as Carol
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
2002
as Lorri Morris
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
2001
as Annie Mary Pugh
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
2001
as Ermine Jung
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
2001
as Sandra
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
1999
as Pamela Drury
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
1998
as Hilary Du Pré
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
1998
as Lee Cooper
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
1998
as Tanya Rammus
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
1998
as Sylvia
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
1998
Writer, Director
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
1998
as Gerry
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
1998
as Sally Zalinsky
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
1997
as Bettina / Sandra
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
1997
as Samantha Newhouse
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
1996
as Constable Anna Welch
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
1996
as Kate
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
1996
as Lucy
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
1996
as Arabella
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
1994
as Rhonda Epinstalk
A young social outcast in Australia steals money from her parents to finance a vacation where she hopes to find happiness, and perhaps love.