Hugo Weaving Biography
Born: April 4, 1960
A graduate of Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art, blond, idiosyncratic leading man Hugo Weaving made his feature film debut in the socially conscious low-budget drama The_City's_Edge (1983), purportedly one of the first Australian films to sympathetically portray the adverse conditions suffered by aborigines. In 1991, Weaving received Best Actor kudos from the Australian Film Institute for his portrayal of a blind photographer in Jocelyn_Moorhouse's Proof. In 1994, the actor earned international acclaim playing Tick, a drag queen with a secret, in the cult favorite The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994). The following year, Weaving was involved in another audience pleaser when he lent his voice to play the sheep dog Rex in Babe. Weaving occasionally appears in U.S. television productions, notably the CBS miniseries Dadah_Is_Death, in which he played opposite Julie_Christie and Sarah_Jessica_Parker. He also continues to work steadily in Australia, in addition to appearing in big-budget Hollywood affairs such as The_Matrix, in which he starred as an evil agent opposite Keanu_Reeves and Laurence_Fishburne. Following his turn in The_Matrix with a few low-key romantic comedies (Strange_Planet [also 1999] and Russian_Doll [2001]), Weaving made a return to big-budgeted special effects extravaganzas with his involvement in director Peter_Jackson's enormous adaptation of author J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. For the sequels to The_Matrix, Weaving would return with a vengeance; with hundreds of Agent Smith clones sent to stop Neo (Keanu_Reeves) from leading the revolution against the machines. Rebecca Flint Marx, Rovi
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