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Jacqueline Ruth Weaver AO (born 25 May 1947) is an Australian theatre, film, and television actress. Weaver emerged in the 1970s 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 (1976), Squizzy Taylor (1982), and a number of television films, miniseries, and Australian productions of plays such as Death of a Salesman and A Streetcar Named Desire.

Weaver garnered critical acclaim, an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination, and won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as the matriarch of a criminal family in the 2010 crime film Animal Kingdom. In 2012, she received another Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the romantic comedy-drama film Silver Linings Playbook . In the following years, Weaver appeared in the films The Five-Year Engagement (2012), Parkland (2013), Magic in the Moonlight (2014), The Disaster Artist (2017), Bird Box (2018), Widows (2018), Poms (2019), Stage Mother (2020), and Father Stu (2022).

On television, Weaver starred in the Starz comedy series Blunt Talk (2015–16), Fox Showcase political thriller Secret City (2016–19), Epix thriller Perpetual Grace, LTD (2019), and the Stan science fiction series Bloom (2019–20). In 2021, she had a recurring role as Caroline Warner in the Paramount Network neo-Western series Yellowstone.

Early life
Weaver was born in Sydney, Australia. Her mother, Edith (née Simpson), was a migrant from England, and her father, Arthur Weaver, was a Sydney solicitor. She attended Hornsby Girls' High School and was Dux of her school. She won a scholarship to study sociology at university, but instead embarked upon an acting career.