Rachel Griffiths
45 movies · 23 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Dec 18, 1968 (age 57)
- Place of birth
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Also known as
- Rachel Anne Griffiths · ریچل گریفیتس · Рейчел Гріффітс
Biography
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.
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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.
Known for
Rachel Griffiths: movies and TV shows
Acting (62)
- 2024
- 2023 Anyone but You
as Innie
- 2023 A Savage Christmas
as Doctor Gabrielle
- 2023 Bring Him to Me
as Veronica
- 2022
- 2022 The King's Daughter
as Abbess
- 2021
- 2020
- 2020 Strangers To The World
as Etty Hillesum
- 2019
- 2018
- 2017 Don't Tell
as Joy Conolly
- 2017
- 2016 Hacksaw Ridge
as Bertha Doss
- 2016
- 2016 Mammal
as Margaret Brady
- 2016 Science Fiction Volume One: The Osiris Child
as General Lynex
- 2015
- 2013 Saving Mr. Banks
as Aunt Ellie
- 2013 Patrick
as Matron Cassidy
- 2013
- 2013 Butterflies
as Claire
- 2013
- 2012 Underground: The Julian Assange Story
as Christine Assange
- 2012
- 2011 Burning Man
as Miriam
- 2009 Beautiful Kate
as Sally Kendall
- 2008
- 2006
- 2006 Step Up
as Director Gordon
- 2005 Angel Rodriguez
as Nicole
- 2004 Plainsong
as Maggie Jonas
- 2003 The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina
as Albertine (voice)
- 2003 After the Deluge
as Annie
- 2003
- 2003 Ned Kelly
as Susan Scott
- 2003 Land of the Morning Star
as Narrator (voice)
- 2002 The Hard Word
as Carol
- 2002
- 2002 The Rookie
as Lorri Morris
- 2001
- 2001 Very Annie Mary
as Annie Mary Pugh
- 2001 Blow
as Ermine Jung
- 2001 Blow Dry
as Sandra
- 1999 Me Myself I
as Pamela Drury
- 1998 Hilary and Jackie
as Hilary du Pré
- 1998 Divorcing Jack
as Lee Cooper
- 1998 Amy
as Tanya Rammus
- 1998 Welcome to Woop Woop
as Sylvia
- 1998 Among Giants
as Gerry
- 1998 Since You've Been Gone
as Sally Zalinsky
- 1997 My Son the Fanatic
as Bettina / Sandra
- 1997 My Best Friend's Wedding
as Samantha Newhouse
- 1996 Children of the Revolution
as Constable Anna Welch
- 1996 To Have and to Hold
as Kate
- 1996
- 1996 Cosi
as Lucy
- 1996 Jude
as Arabella
- 1994 Muriel's Wedding
as Rhonda Epinstalk
- 1993
- 1991
- 1951
Behind the camera (11)
- 2025
- 2025
- 2022
- 2021
- 2021
- 2019
- 2019 Ride Like a Girl
Director
- 2013
- 2005 DeKronos - Il Demone del Tempo
Director
- 2002 Roundabout
Director
- 1998 Tulip
Director, Writer
Talk shows and appearances (17)
- 2025 Sam Pang Tonight
1 episode
- 2020 The Sound
1 episode
- 2017
- 2017
- 2017
- 2008 Q&A
1 episode
- 2007
- 2007
- 2006
- 2005
- 2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live!
1 episode
- 2002 V Graham Norton
1 episode
- 1999 Rove
1 episode
- 1994 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
1 episode
- 1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1 episode
- 1992 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1 episode
- 1953 The Oscars
1 episode