HUGO WEAVING: V
HUGO WEAVING, one of Australia’s most acclaimed actors, graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1981 and has since worked extensively in film, television and theatre. He achieved international fame as Agent Smith in the revolutionary, $1.6 billion-grossing, Matrix trilogy and also starred in Peter Jackson’s epic trilogy Lord of the Rings as Elrond, Lord of Rivendell.In 1998 Weaving won an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor for his work in The Interview, directed by Craig Monahan. In 1991 he won an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor for his work in Proof, directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse. He also received an AFI nomination in 1994 for The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, directed by Stephan Elliott.
Weaving’s other film credits include The Old Man Who Read Love Stories, Strange Planet, Bedrooms and Hallways, the critically acclaimed True Love and Chaos, Stephan Elliott’s Frauds, The Custodian, Paul Cox’ Exile, Reckless Kelly, Wendy Cracked a Walnut, The Right Hand Man, For Love Alone and The City’s Edge.
His television credits include the Australian miniseries Bodyline, the telefilm The Bite, the miniseries Bangkok Hilton (also starring Nicole Kidman), The Dirtywater Dynasty, Naked – Coral Island, Barlow and Chambers: A Long Way From Home and Melba.
Among Weaving’s numerous theatre credits are the Sydney Theatre Company’s Hedda Gabler, Macbeth, The Real Thing, The Cherry Orchard and Arcadia. He also starred in Much Ado About Nothing and The Taming of the Shrew for the Melbourne Theatre Company, and in Julius Caesar, Ring Around the Moon and Private Lives for the State Theatre Company of South Australia.
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