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BIRTHDAY

April 04, 1960

Austin, Nigeria

RECENT CREDITS

Transformers (FILM) Jul. 3, 2007

Happy Feet (FILM) Nov. 17, 2006

V for Vendetta (FILM) Mar. 17, 2006

Little Fish (FILM) Feb. 24, 2006

The Lord of the Rings: The Return o... (FILM) Dec. 17, 2003

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BIOGRAPHY

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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, All Movie Guide

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Box Office Analysis, May 18: "The Matrix" Takes It

May. 18, 2003

Box Office Analysis for May 18: The Matrix Reloaded. Daddy Day Care, X2: X-Men United, Down With Love, The Lizzie McGuire Movie, Anger Management, Identity, Holes, A Mighty Wind, Bend It Like Beckham

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Summer 2009: Death Pool!

Posted: Apr. 23, 2009

Box Office Analysis, Nov. 9: "Revolutions" Rules

Posted: Nov. 7, 2003

"Revolutions" Earns $24.3 Million Wednesday

Posted: Nov. 6, 2003

"Revolutions" To Debut Simultaneously Worldwide

Posted: Oct. 2, 2003

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