Jacki Weaver
Jacki Weaver
Jacqueline Ruth "Jacki" Weaver, AOis an Australian theatre, film, and television actress. She is known internationally for her performances in Animal Kingdomand Silver Linings Playbook, both of which earned her a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth25 May 1947
CitySydney, Australia
CountryAustralia
daughter running law
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.
sex believe effort
I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?
best-effort imagination actors
I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.
beads sequins bits
I love a bit of a sequin and a bead. I do, even though I usually wear trousers, when I put a frock on. I like a bead or a sequin.
mean-girls thinking media
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.
home thinking pieces
No, I'm so well-known at home I think they think of me like a piece of comfortable furniture that's always been around that they're not going to throw out.
winning awards world
I've always said about awards that they're meaningless until you win one, and then they're best thing in the world. The other thing about awards is that they engender respect from areas where it might never have come from without it.
years rolling balls
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.
song play yesterday
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.'
eye soul acting
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!
choices facts choosy
'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.
growing-up listening ears
Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.
drama school play
One of the things you learn at drama school is not to play the result, but just to play the moment.
naughty positive-life laughing
Emily [Blunt] is such a giggler, she has such a positive life force about her and she's so giggly in a naughty sort of schoolgirl way that it kind of brings out the worst in you, you just love making her laugh. And also Nick Stoller has one of the best laughs. It's so infectious and whenever he laughs at something you do, it's like giving us a reward.