Hugo Weaving Biography

Biography

good movie record to his list, he was most happy about the birth of his first child with partner Katrina Greenwood whom he has been together with since 1984. The baby boy who was born in 1989 was named Harry and later on the couple would have a daughter named Holly in 1993.

As Weaving involved himself in several other films, his acting performance was getting thicker as shown in "Proof" (1991). Blind and a photographer was hard enough to imagine nevertheless Weaving brilliantly depicted a dependant person who refused to trust anybody but to proof himself that everything was just like what he captured in the photos. For the astonishing performance, he was named Best Actor in a Lead Role by the Australian Film Institute in 1991, an award event which was quite similar to Academy Awards in U.S. The next stop for Weaving was in "Reckless Kelly" (1993), a modern version of the Australian folk hero, Ned Kelly and later that year he acted under the direction of the Australian director Stephan Elliott in a semi comedy but mostly thriller "Frauds" which surprisingly included British singer Phil Collins as the main character. However, it was only Weaving who ...

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was reassigned by Elliott to play in his scandalous movie "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" (1994). After that taking a complete turn from drama or serious roles, he was unbelievably a drag queen who was Anthony Belrose as a guy but sassily named Mitzi Del Bra as a pretty dancer. Again he was included as one of the nominees of the 1994 AFI for Best Actor in a Lead Role but unfortunately stayed at being nominated this time. Then, filling in the voice of an old sheep dog and the narrator of a real life adventure in "Babe" (1995) and "Wild Australia: The Edge" (1996) respectively, it looked like he was trying to do some new things other than the usual roles.

Owing to his character in "The Interview" (1998) as the interviewee of a murder suspect which eventually earned him the second AFI for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in 1998, he ought to be thankful as it also brought him a larger contract to star in the blockbuster "The Matrix" (1999). As Agent Smith, the virtual enemy of Neo in the matrix system, he was simply a convincing villain and because ...