Hugo Weaving
Weaving is the recipient of three AFI (Australian Film Institute) Best Actor Awards, receiving the first in 1991 for his portrayal of a blind photographer in Jocelyn Moorhouse's breakthrough feature Proof. He received a nomination in the same category in 1994 for his drag queen Mitzi Del Bra in Stephan Elliott's The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Weaving won the award for the second time in 1998 for his role in The Interview, written and directed by Craig Monahan, for which he also received the 1998 Best Actor Award at the World Film Festival in Montreal. His most recent credit is the critically acclaimed Little Fish, opposite Cate Blanchett and Sam Neill, for which he won his third AFI Award for Best Actor (2005) and the IF (Inside Film) Award (2005) for Best Actor.
Weaving's other film credits include the Australian features Peaches, Russian Doll, The Magic Pudding, Strange Planet, Babe: Pig in the City, True Love and Chaos, Babe and Exile. His foreign credits include Rolf de Heer's The Old Man Who Read Love Stories and the British romp Bedrooms and Hallways.
Weaving also has a wealth of experience on stage. In 2006 he will appear on stage with Cate Blanchett in the Sydney Theatre Company's production of Hedda Gabler at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Hugo Weaving Facts
| Birth Name | Hugo Wallace Weaving |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Birthday | April 4, 1960 (49) |
| Sign | Aries |
| Birthplace | Austin, Nigeria |
| Height | 6' 2" (1m88) |