“At one point, I remember texting Robbie and saying,”
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Rachel Griffiths
Rachel Anne Griffiths is an Australian actress. Raised primarily in Melbourne, she began her acting career appearing on the Australian series Secrets before being cast in a supporting role in the comedy Muriel's Wedding (1994), which earned her an AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. In 1997, she was the lead in Nadia Tass's drama Amy, followed by her portrayal of Hilary du Pré in Hi…
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entertainment · Australian actress (born 1968) · actor · film actor · film director · director · screenwriter · film producer · also Rachel Griffiths, Rachel Anne Griffiths, Griffiths
Born 18 December 1968 · Q181140
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2026· 3 entries
“I guess I had a little moment of, like,”
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“I have faith in the young. My daughters will insist on the world moving forward. They may put up with momentary gaps and pauses, but they are not going to put up with a ministry full of white men and think that’s OK, they are just not.”
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2024· 1 entry
Griffiths appeared in the final season of ABC political drama Total Control, after appearing in the two previous seasons, she also served as executive producer on the 3 series show
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2023· 1 entry
Griffiths was announced as the lead role for New Zealand comedy-drama series Madam
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2020· 2 entries
Awarded Member of the Order of Australia (2020).
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Griffiths starred in the Amazon Prime television show, The Wilds, as Gretchen Klein
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2018· 1 entry
Appears in the SBS thriller miniseries Dead Lucky, which was sold for American distribution to the streaming service SundanceNow in April 2018
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2017· 2 entries
Griffiths worked promoting the "No Robe" campaign for the Art Series Hotels, which invited hotel guests to pose for nude portraits in their rooms and have them brought to life by artists
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Spoke out in favour of same-sex marriage in Australia
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2016· 2 entries
Griffiths was cast opposite Guy Pearce and Mary-Louise Parker in the American miniseries When We Rise, a docudrama focusing on LGBT rights, in which she portrays a nurse during the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States
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Appeared in a supporting role in Mel Gibson's biographical war drama Hacksaw Ridge, and in the docudrama miniseries When We Rise, written by Dustin Lance Black
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2015· 1 entry
Made her debut as a television director when she directed three episodes of the second series of the Australian teen drama Nowhere Boys
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2012· 1 entry
Griffiths returned to live in her native Australia, after having lived and worked in the United States for a decade
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2009· 1 entry
Gave birth to her third child in Los Angeles; Griffiths suffered a ruptured uterus giving birth
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2006· 1 entry
Became part of the ensemble cast, co-starring alongside Sally Field, Calista Flockhart, Balthazar Getty and Matthew Rhys, of the dramatic series Brothers & Sisters, in which she portrays Sarah Walker, who inherits co
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2004· 1 entry
Played a key role in the Hallmark film adaptation of the Kent Haruf novel Plainsong
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2003· 1 entry
And Taylor had a son, followed by a daughter in 2005
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2002· 4 entries
And two Primetime Emmy Award nominations
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Griffiths stated she was an atheist
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Which earned her a Helpmann Award, and later made her Broadway debut in a 2011 critically acclaimed production of Other Desert Cities
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In 2002, Griffiths stated she was an atheist.
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2001· 3 entries
Won Centenary Medal (2001).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film for Six Feet Under (2001).
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Griffiths appeared opposite Natasha Richardson in the English comedy Blow Dry, playing a lesbian hairdresser who enters a hairstyling competition with her lover, followed by the Ted Demme-directed Blow (2001) opposite Jo
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1999· 1 entry
For her role in the biographical film Hilary and Jackie (1998)
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1998· 1 entry
And directed several episodes of the Australian television series Nowhere Boys in 2015
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1997· 2 entries
Was the lead in Nadia Tass's drama Amy, followed by her portrayal of Hilary du Pré in Hilary and Jackie (1998), for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
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Griffiths sparked controversy after showing up uninvited at the opening of the Crown Melbourne in Melbourne, Australia
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1996· 1 entry
With the role of an earthy, ill-mannered pig farmer's daughter in Michael Winterbottom's Jude
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1994· 1 entry
Her role in the comedy-drama film Muriel's Wedding (1994) saw her nominated for the AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
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1991· 1 entry
Wrote and performed the one-woman show Barbie Gets Hip, which played at the Melbourne Fringe Festival in 1991
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1968· 2 entries
In Melbourne, Australia, and spent her early childhood on the Gold Coast
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Born 1968-12-18.
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