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Jacki Weaver Biography

Jacqueline Ruth Weaver AO (born 25 May 1947) is an Australian theatre, film, and television actress. She is known internationally for her performances in Animal Kingdom (2010) and Silver Linings Playbook (2012), both of which earned her a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

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Emily and I have some funny scenes where we quarrel and it gets quite heated, the mother-daughter relationship. You know, film mothers and daughters adore each other. And some don't. But how could you not love Emily Blunt? But I think I'm just one of those people who's always discontented.

Gets, Heated, Love, Mother And Daughter, Mother Daughter, Thinking

The eyes are the windows of your soul, and when you're acting, they're one of your most important instruments. Especially for close-ups!

Eye, Eyes, Important, Soul, Windows

It's fascinating. It's also exhilarating when you see people making the exact same choices that you've made. It kind of validates what you've decided to do. I saw a wonderful production of Jessica Lange doing Streetcar with Alec Baldwin. It was gorgeous. It's a measure of what a great classic that is, that our Cate Blanchett also did an absolute amazing Blanche in Sydney, as well as in New York.

Choices, Exhilarating, New York, People, Streetcar

I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.

Awards, Love, Presents, Told

In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer. ' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.

Australia, Dora, Growing Up, Nature, Sesame, Son

Well, let's say Asian. Some are Japanese. Some are Chinese. Some are Thai. Some are Vietnamese. He runs the gamut. And I actually happen to have a very dear daughter-in-law who's Japanese. I don't know what she's going to make of the film, but I say a few disparaging things.

Daughter, Happen, Law, Make, Running, Thai

I don't think they're more temperamental people now. With social media we hear a lot more about it. The nastiness you get online, there were always mean girls - always - they didn't have such a big forum as they do now. Mean girls ought to get a life, I think.

Girls, Mean Girls, Media, People, Temperamental, Thinking

When you get as old as I am, you kind of believe there's nothing new under the sun, but there's always a fresh way of looking at something. That's why I love working with young people. They remind you of things you used to know and have since forgotten.

Believe, Forgotten, Fresh, People, Way, Young

I do a lot of American plays. I've done a lot of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Neil Simon. I was in 'Sisters Rosensweig,' 'Six Degrees of Separation,' all of that stuff. So we're very familiar with America. I did 400 performances of 'Born Yesterday. ' I did 700 performances of 'They're Playing Our Song. '

America, Familiar, Play, Simon, Song, Williams

I do have friends in Australia who now refer to me as 'Hollywood Jack. '

Australia, Friends, Hollywood, Refer

I haven't really had a major role in film for about 12 years. But I never stopped working in the theater. I do stuff back to back.

Film, Roles, Stuff, Theater, Years

David Michôd changed my life, quite literally, along with the chaps at Sony Pictures Classics. That's what set me on my way. I thought we did good work and had a good film, but when it was so praised at Sundance that year that's what really started the ball rolling. We all paid our own way to Sundance.

Balls, Michôd, Pictures, Rolling, Year, Years

I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.

Actors, Best Effort, Effort, Imagination, Lively

We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings'.

Becoming, Mental Illness, Silver, Things

I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.

Characters, Girl, Grandma, Mom, Sweet

I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'

Bye, Goodbye, Love You, People, Say, Shy

To be embraced by Hollywood when I'd been acting professionally for almost 50 years seemed unbelievable. I've been so welcomed in such a warm, generous way - it seemed crazy not to take advantage of it. I hope for another 20 years where I can still keep going.

Acting, Crazy, Generous, Years

I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.

Brother, Crazy, People, Sean, Susan, Usual

'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.

Choices, Choosy, Fact, Facts, Implies, Promiscuous

Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.

Australians, Ear, Ears, Grow, Growing Up, Listening

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