Rachel Griffiths is an Australian actress. Often acts as a director. He is also engaged in the work of a screenwriter. In the track record of the Australian 85 cinematic works. It gained fame thanks to roles in feature films: Cocaine, The Barber of England, Novice, Hilary and Jackie. You can evaluate her work in television projects: “The client is always dead”, “Brothers and sisters”. She collaborated with actors: Daniel Willie, Ben Mendelssohn, Robert Taylor, Richard Roxburgh, Aden Young and others. She connected her life with cinema in 1989, starring in the crime series “Police Rescue Squad”. Films with Rachel Griffiths belong to the genres: drama, melodrama, comedy. The actress is 177 cm tall. Married to Andrew Taylor. Mother of three children. According to the zodiac sign - Sagittarius. At this time, the actress is 49 years old.
Biography
Born December 18, 1968 in the Australian city of Gold Coast in a family of teachers. When she was five years old, her mother took her and her older brothers to Melbourne. Later, the parents of the future movie star divorced, and her father began to cohabit with a girl of 18 years old.
The first film activity
In 1994, actress Rachel Griffiths had a chance to show her acting talent to the fullest when she was invited to play a major role in the Australian Muriel Wedding project. For this work, to which film critics favorably reacted, she was awarded the award of film critics of Australia. Muriel’s Wedding is a comedy melodrama about a beauty tired of provincial life who travels to Sydney to fulfill her long-held dream of marrying a prince.
In 1996, an Australian actress starred in the British drama Jude, starring Kate Winslet and Christopher Eccleston. This is a story about a bricklayer passionately keen on studying ancient languages, whose romantic dream of his cousin can impede his dream of becoming a teacher.
Big role
In 1998, appeared on the screen in the image of the main character of the film "Hilary and Jackie." This work allowed Rachel Griffiths to be among the candidates for the Oscars of that year. “Hilary and Jackie” tells the story of cellist Jackie, a talented performer but unlucky in love with a woman who returns to her sister Hilary to break her quiet family happiness.
Big success
In 2001, the Australian woman contributed to the success of the series “The Client is Always Dead,” for which she received the Golden Globe Award and was awarded the United States Screen Actors Guild. Thanks to this role, she appeared in the lists of nominees for the Emmy Award. “The client is always dead” is a multi-part comedy story about Nate, who was “lucky” to be the brother of a homosexual and a novice drug addict. The only one who pleases Nate is his beloved Brenda, but only until he meets her relatives.
New roles
In 2017, Rachel Griffiths reincarnated on the screen as Joy, the heroine of the feature film “Don't Tell.” In the same year, she joined the cast of the film in the format of the mini-series “When We Rest”. In 2018, she got a role in the cinema project “The Daughter of the King”, in which actors Pierce Brosnan and William Hurt are also involved.