Biography
Jacqueline 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 (...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Memoir of a Snail
2024
as Pinky (voice)
Forcibly separated from her twin brother when they are orphaned, a melancholic misfit learns how to find confidence within herself amid the clutter of...

Wildflower
2023
as Loretta
The story of Bea Johnson from birth to graduation as she navigates life with an intellectually disabled parent and an extended family who can't quite ...

American Murderer
2022
as Jeanne
The True story of how charismatic con man Jason Derek Brown bankrolls his extravagant lifestyle through a series of scams. On Brown’s trail: Lance Lei...

Father Stu
2022
as Kathleen Long
The true-life story of boxer-turned-priest. When an injury ends his amateur boxing career, Stuart Long moves to Los Angeles to find money and fame. Wh...

Back to the Outback
2021
as Jackie (voice)
Tired of being locked in a reptile house where humans gawk at them like they are monsters, a ragtag group of Australia’s deadliest creatures plot an e...

Penguin Bloom
2021
as Jan
When an unlikely ally enters the Bloom family's world in the form of an injured baby magpie they name Penguin, the bird’s arrival makes a profound dif...

Stage Mother
2020
as Maybelline Metcalf
A conservative church-choir director moves from Texas to San Francisco to run her deceased gay son's drag club.

Never Too Late
2020
as Norma McCarthy
It's been a long time since Caine, Bronson, Angus and Wendell—aka ‘The Chain Breakers'—escaped a torturous Vietnamese POW camp. They now find themselv...

Elsewhere
2020
as Mom
A man does everything in his power to keep ownership of a seaside cottage he built with his late wife.

The Grudge
2019
as Lorna Moody
After a young mother murders her family in her own house, a detective attempts to investigate the mysterious case, only to discover that the house is ...

Zeroville
2019
as Dotty Langer
A young actor arrives in Hollywood in 1969 during a transitional time in the Industry.

Poms
2019
as Sheryl
After moving to a retirement community, loner Martha eventually befriends her fun-loving neighbor, Sheryl, and forms a cheerleading club for young-at-...

Out of Blue
2019
as Miriam Rockwell
Mike Hoolihan is an unconventional New Orleans cop investigating the murder of renowned astrophysicist Jennifer Rockwell, a black hole expert found sh...

Bird Box
2018
as Cheryl
Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.

Widows
2018
as Agnieska
A police shootout leaves four thieves dead during an explosive armed robbery attempt in Chicago. Their widows have nothing in common except a debt lef...

Life of the Party
2018
as Sandy Cook
When her husband suddenly dumps her, longtime dedicated housewife Deanna turns regret into re-set by going back to college... landing in the same clas...

Oh, Hi Mark: Making a Disaster
2018
as Self
A documentary about the making and shooting of James Franco's ‘The Disaster Artist’ (2017)

Irreplaceable You
2018
as Estelle
A stunning cancer diagnosis spurs Abbie to seek a future girlfriend for fiancé and childhood sweetheart Sam, who's clueless when it comes to dating.

Small Crimes
2017
as Irma Denton
A disgraced former cop, fresh off a six-year prison sentence for attempted murder, returns home looking for redemption but winds up trapped in the mes...

The Disaster Artist
2017
as Carolyn / 'Claudette'
An aspiring actor in Hollywood meets an enigmatic stranger by the name of Tommy Wiseau, the meeting leads the actor down a path nobody could have pred...

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...

The Polka King
2017
as Barb
Local Pennsylvania polka legend Jan Lewan develops a plan to get rich that shocks his fans and lands him in jail.

Sister Cities
2016
as Mary Baxter
Based on the internationally-acclaimed play by Colette Freedman, the story of 4 estranged sisters who reunite for their mother’s alleged suicide.

Goldstone
2016
as Maureen
Indigenous Detective Jay Swan arrives in the frontier town of Goldstone on a missing persons inquiry. What seems like a simple investigation unearths ...

Last Cab to Darwin
2015
as Dr. Farmer
Rex is a loner, and when he's told he doesn't have long to live, he embarks on an epic drive through the Australian outback from Broken Hill to Darwin...

Equals
2015
as Bess
A futuristic love story set in a world where emotions have been eradicated.

Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks
2014
as Irene Mossbecker
A retired woman hires a dance instructor to give her private dance lessons at her home -- one per week for six weeks. What begins as an antagonistic r...

Reclaim
2014
as Reigert
After their newly adopted daughter goes missing in a small town, Steven and Shannon will stop at nothing to uncover the truth behind her disappearance...

Magic in the Moonlight
2014
as Grace
Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.

Haunt
2014
as Janet Morello
An introverted teen sparks with his new neighbor, and together the couple begins to explore the haunted house that his family has unknowingly just pur...

The Voices
2014
as Dr. Warren
A mentally unhinged factory worker must decide whether to listen to his talking cat and become a killer, or follow his dog's advice to keep striving f...

Florence Has Left the Building
2014
as Florence
Its the annual Christmas Eve concert at the Marigold House Assisted Living Facility. All her friends are dying and Florence wants out. When the facili...

Parkland
2013
as Marguerite Oswald
November 22nd, 1963 was a day that changed the world forever — when young American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. This f...

Stoker
2013
as Aunt Gwendolyn 'Gin' Stoker
After India Stoker's father dies, her Uncle Charlie, who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect ...

Silver Linings Playbook
2012
as Dolores Solatano
After losing his job and wife, and spending time in an institution, a former teacher winds up living with his parents. He wants to rebuild his life an...

Lois
2012
When a mysterious letter tips Lois over the edge, she is driven to wild lengths to address some unfinished business.

The Five-Year Engagement
2012
as Sylvia Dickerson-Barnes
Exactly one year after Tom meets Violet, he surprises her with a wedding ring. By all accounts, Tom and Violet are destined for their happily ever aft...

Summer Coda
2010
as Jen
Hitchhiking home to a family she's never known, Heidi meets Michael. In the stunning orange groves of country Australia, they embark on an adventure, ...

Animal Kingdom
2010
as Janine 'Smurf' Cody
Joshua “J” is taken in by his extended family after his mother dies of an overdose. The clan, ruled by J’s scheming grandmother, is heavily involved i...

Three Blind Mice
2008
as Bernie
Three young Navy officers hit Sydney for one last night on land before being shipped over to the Gulf to fight. Sam has been mistreated at sea and is ...

The Two-Wheeled Time Machine
1997
as Older Alice
Henry Howard discovers a way to stay young forever, but life doesn't seem worth living without his childhood sweetheart Alice. Risking old age, Henry ...

Cosi
1996
as Cherry
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...
The Challenge
1986
as Rasa Bertrand
The story of the 1983 America's Cup challenge, where the Australian team financed by business tycoon Alan Bond, finally wrests the cup from the New Yo...

The Perfectionist
1985
as Barbara Gunn
Barbara and Steward are happily married and have three kids. But one day Barbara decides that her children are old enough now and she can quit as hous...

Abra Cadabra
1983
as Primrose Buttercup
Dr Cadabra, an eccentric magician, lives in outer space with his son Abra and their pets - Stella the star cat and Zodiac the space dog. When all fou...

Squizzy Taylor
1982
as Dolly
This Australian crime drama chronicles the life of notorious, keen witted, acid tongued 1920s Melbourne gangster Squizzy Taylor. Wormy and diminutive,...

Do I Have to Kill My Child?
1976
as Dianne
A disturbing drama about a young mother who physically abuses her baby. Feeling overwhelmed and aware that she's not coping after the birth of her thi...

Caddie
1976
as Josie
Proud and classy Caddie Marsh is forced to get a job as a barmaid and raise two children on her own after her husband walks out on her.

The Removalists
1975
An adaptation of David Williamson's play; John Hargreaves and Peter Cummins star as a good and bad cop who assist a battered wife as she tries to esca...

Picnic at Hanging Rock
1975
as Minnie
In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the g...
Polly My Love
1975
as Polly
An Australian-set romance starring Jacki Weaver.

A Recollection... Hanging Rock 1900
1975
as Self (archive photos)
A documentary about the disappearance of school girls on St. Valentine's Day, 1900 at Australia's Hanging Rock.

Jock Petersen
1974
as Susie Petersen
Tony Petersen, a married electrician and ex-footballer, goes to university to study English. Petersen is odd man out at the uni. He receives extracurr...

Alvin Purple
1973
as Second Sugar Girl
Alvin is your average guy, except for the fact women find him irresistible and chase him everywhere. He tries to avoid them and get psychiatric help b...

Stork
1971
as Anna
Stork is a gangly young man, a virgin with an overactive imagination who thinks he’s a revolutionary. Bored with a design job at General Motors Holden...

The Naked Bunyip
1970
as Herself
A shy young man is hired by an ad agency to conduct a survey on sex in Australia. The somewhat clueless young man investigates homosexuality, transves...

Larrikins
N/A
as Doris (voice)
When an uptight bilby escapes his sheltered life from his family burrow, he ventures out and finds himself launched on a musical adventure across the ...
The Wonder Yard
N/A
as Dinah
Following the death of her husband of fifty years, Dinah devotes all her efforts to building an ambitious wonderland in her garden.

Holy Days
N/A
Three quirky older nuns hit the road looking for miracles but end up learning to drive like demons instead. When the last of the sisters of St. Suzann...

Pendulum
N/A
as Ella-Rose
Young couple Patrick and Abigail journey to a new-age retreat in New Mexico, drawn by the possibility of healing after a traumatic event. Patrick is w...