Rachel Griffiths
Acting
Born 1968-12-18
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Rachel Anne Griffiths AM (born 18 December 1968) is an Australian film and television actress. She came to prominence with the 1994 film Muriel's Wedding and her Academy Award nominated performance in Hilary and Jackie (1998). She is best known for her portrayals of Brenda Chenowith in the HBO series Six Feet Under and Sarah Walker Laurent on the ABC primetime drama Brothers & Sisters. Her work in film and television has earned her a Golden Globe Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and three Australian Film Institute Awards.
Griffith attended Melbourne University, studying philosophy, before attending the drama department at Victoria School of the Art. After college, she began working with the touring youth company Woolly Jumpers Theater Company, as well as the Melbourne Theater Company, where she appeared in numerous dramas.
Griffiths made a name for herself in 1991 when she wrote and performed in the short film "Barbie Gets Hip,” which was screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival. She landed a few TV spots before she was cast as Rhonda, Toni Collette's sidekick in P.J. Hogan's "Muriel's Wedding" (1994), winning her an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Supporting Actress. These successes jump-started her career, landing her numerous dramatic and comedic roles in overseas productions, before making her American cinema debut with her second P.J. Hogan collaboration, "My Best Friend's Wedding” (1997).
In the fall of 2001, Griffiths accepted her first major television series role and came aboard Alan Ball’s HBO series "Six Feet Under." Griffith stayed with the show during its five years of critical acclaim, while at the same time, continued to appear an lend her voice to screen and direct-to-video features before returning to telvision to star in "Brothers and Sisters" to much similar acclaim.
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Filmography
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Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Six Feet Under
Hacksaw Ridge
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Brothers and Sisters
Anyone but You
The Oscars
Q&A
V Graham Norton
Police Rescue
Rove
The Wilds
Blow
Step Up
Kath & Kim
The Rookie
Mammal
Total Control
Nowhere Boys
My Best Friend's Wedding
Saving Mr. Banks
Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
The King's Daughter
Once a Thief
Comanche Moon
House Husbands
Ned Kelly
Muriel's Wedding
When We Rise
Barracuda
Bali 2002
The Feds
Blow Dry
Aftertaste
Sam Pang Tonight
Madam
Science Fiction Volume One: The Osiris Child
Bring Him to Me
Deadline Gallipoli
Don't Tell
Jude
Camp
Ride Like a Girl
Dead Lucky
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Hilary and Jackie
The Hard Word
Cosi
Beautiful Kate
The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina
Burning Man
After the Deluge
Children of the Revolution
Angel Rodriguez
Paper Giants: Magazine Wars
Patrick
Great Southern Landscapes
Since You've Been Gone
My Son the Fanatic
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