Hugo Weaving Filmography

Transformers

Actors: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Rachael Taylor

Synopsis: The interstellar battle between the Autobots and Decepticons rains destruction down on planet Earth as director Michael Bay adapts Hasbro and Takara's popular Transformers franchise into a big-budget, live-action summer tentpole extravaganza in this ambitious sci-fi action feature starring Shia LaBeouf Read More

The Girl Who Swallowed Bees

Actors: Pia Miranda, Hugo Weaving

In the Company of Actors

Actors: Aden Young, Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Robyn Nevin, Justine Clarke

Synopsis: It's rare that audiences have the opportunity to watch actors perfect their roles in the sacred space of the rehearsal room, but in this documentary detailing the Sydney Theater Company's production of Hedda Gabler at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, theater fans are afforded the Read More

Happy Feet

Actors: Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Brittany Murphy, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Hugo Weaving, Anthony LaPaglia, Magda Szubanski, Steve Irwin

Synopsis: In the world of the emperor penguin, a simple song can mean the difference between a lifetime of happiness and an eternity of loneliness. When a penguin named Mumble is born without the ability to sing the romantic song that will attract his soul mate, he'll have to resort to some fancy footwork Read More

V for Vendetta

Actors: Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, Stephen Fry, John Hurt

Synopsis: Based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore, V for Vendetta takes place in an alternate vision of Britain in which a corrupt and abusive totalitarian government has risen to complete power. During a threatening run in with the secret police, an unassuming young woman named Evey (Natalie Portman) is Read More

Little Fish

Actors: Cate Blanchett, Sam Neill, Hugo Weaving, Martin Henderson, Noni Hazlehurst

Synopsis: A former drug-addict in her early thirties attempts to put her shady past to rest while paving the way for a brighter future in director Rowan Woods' tale of love, trust, and redemption in modern-day Australia. Tracy Heart (Cate Blanchett) hasn't lived her 32 years so much as she has simply Read More

Sledge: The Untold Story

Actors: David Leitch, Holmes Osborne, Nathan Lee Graham, Chris Palermo, Lin Shaye

Peaches

Synopsis: An 18-year-old orphan teetering on the verge of womanhood attempts to unlock the secrets of her shrouded family past by setting out into the Australian countryside with little more than her mother's diary and a mysterious older lover to guide her in an intimate drama directed by Craig Monahan and Read More

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Actors: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Orlando Bloom

Synopsis: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King brings Peter Jackson's mammoth adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic to a close in suitably epic fashion. Instead of starting just where the previous film left off, however, it goes far back in time to the moment the tormented creature Gollum first Read More

The Matrix Revolutions

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne, Hugo Weaving, Jada Pinkett Smith

Synopsis: Shot back-to-back with The Matrix Reloaded, the third and final installment of Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski's sci-fi action saga picks up where the second film left off. Neo (Keanu Reeves) remains unconscious in the real world, caught in a mysterious subway station that lies between the Read More

The Matrix Reloaded

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne, Hugo Weaving, Jada Pinkett Smith

Synopsis: After creating an international sensation with the visually dazzling and intellectually challenging sci-fi blockbuster The Matrix, the Wachowski brothers returned with the first of two projected sequels that pick up where the first film left off. Neo (Keanu Reeves) and Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) Read More

After the Deluge

Synopsis: The brothers of the Kirby family have come to a crossroads. Alex (David Wenham) stands at the brink of a crumbling marriage, Toby (Samuel Johnson) is trying desperately to start a family, and Marty (Hugo Weaving) can't seem to revive his stalled music career. All three of the brothers have Read More

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Actors: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett

Synopsis: The second film in Peter Jackson's series of screen adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien's internationally popular Lord of The Rings trilogy, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers literally begins where The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ended, with the Fellowship splitting into three Read More

Horseplay

Actors: Marcus Graham, Tushka Bergen, Jason Donovan, Bill Hunter, Natalie Mendoza

Synopsis: Australian filmmaker Stavros Kazantzidis directs the dark comedy Horseplay. Con man Max Mackendrick (Marcus Graham) wants a bit of horseracing action, so he marries the snobby Alicia Coxhead (Tushka Bergen), the daughter of famous horceracer Barry Coxhead (Bill Hunter). However, Max gets eternally Read More

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Actors: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Ian Holm, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Bean

Synopsis: New Zealand filmmaker Peter Jackson fulfills his lifelong dream of transforming author J.R.R. Tolkien's best-selling fantasy epic into a three-part motion picture that begins with this holiday 2001 release. Elijah Wood stars as Frodo Baggins, a Hobbit resident of the medieval "Middle-earth" who Read More

Russian Doll

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Hugo Weaving, Natalya Novikova, David Wenham, Sacha Horler

Synopsis: Most people fall in love and get married, but one man does it the other way around in this romantic comedy from Australia. Harvey (Hugo Weaving) is a private detective who derives the bulk of his work from unhappily married people wanting to know if their spouses are being unfaithful. Harvey finds Read More

The Old Man Who Read Stories

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Timothy Spall, Hugo Weaving

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Luis Sepulveda, this drama stars Richard Dreyfuss as Antonio Bolivar, an elderly man who lives in a small village along the Amazon River. Many years ago, Bolivar and his young wife came to the village as part of an effort to colonize the area; the couple was welcomed by Read More

The Magic Pudding

Actors: John Cleese, Geoffrey Rush, Sam Neill, Hugo Weaving, Toni Collette

Synopsis: One of Australia's best-loved children's books is brought to the screen in this animated comedy-adventure from down under. Bunyip Bluegum (voice of Geoffrey Rush) is a koala bear who has lost his parents and can't find them. While many of his friends and relatives fear that Bunyip's folks are Read More

Bedrooms & Hallways

Actors: Kevin McKidd, Hugo Weaving, Jennifer Ehle, Simon Callow, Harriet Walter

Synopsis: Rose Troche (Go Fish) directed this British romantic comedy with various gay characters in London. Impish Darren (Tom Hollander) urges lonely Leo (Kevin McKidd of Trainspotting) to get a more active social life, as does neighbor Angie (Julie Graham). When friend Adam (Christopher Fulford) gets Leo Read More

The Matrix

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Gloria Foster, Joe Pantoliano

Synopsis: What if virtual reality wasn't just for fun, but was being used to imprison you? That's the dilemma that faces mild-mannered computer jockey Thomas Anderson (Keanu Reeves) in The Matrix. It's the year 1999, and Anderson (hacker alias: Neo) works in a cubicle, manning a computer and doing a little Read More

Strange Planet

Actors: Claudia Karvan, Naomi Watts, Alice Garner, Tom Long, Aaron Jeffery

Synopsis: The second film of Emma-Kate Croghan, who made her debut in 1996 with Love and Other Catastrophes, Strange Planet is a romantic comedy about two apparently different groups of friends. During 12 months, we follow six characters and their problems in search of love and happiness. Judy, Alice, and Read More

The Interview

Actors: Hugo Weaving, Tony Martin, Aaron Jeffery, Paul Sonkkila, Michael Caton

Synopsis: Craig Monahan made his directorial debut with this Australian police drama in which unemployed, poverty-stricken Eddie Rodney Fleming (Hugo Weaving), after losing his wife and home, is dragged from his apartment by police and subjected to a brutal interrogation. Eventually, it becomes terrifyingly Read More

Frontier

Actors: Hugo Weaving, Geoffrey Rush, Jerome Ehlers, Chris Hayward

True Love and Chaos

Synopsis: A pregnant back-up singer in a Melbourne band finds herself saddled with two fellow travellers (one of whom is the father of her child), who are using her to escape the vengeful drug dealer they just robbed. When Mimi first asks her lover Haniff to travel with her to Perth so she can make peace Read More

Babe

Actors: James Cromwell, Magda Szubanski, Christine Cavanaugh, Miriam Margolyes, Danny Mann, Hugo Weaving

Synopsis: A young pig fights convention to become a sheep dog -- or, rather, sheep pig -- in this charming Australian family film, which became an unexpected international success due to superior special effects and an intelligent script. The title refers to the name bestowed on a piglet soon after his Read More

Bordertown

Actors: Cate Blanchett

Synopsis: Blending rough-and-tumble drama with romance, this story is set in Australia shortly after World War II, when waves of immigration brought thousands of people to Australia's rural prairies. Baringa is a small town built around an abandoned military base; primarily home to migrant laborers, Baringa Read More

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Actors: Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, Bill Hunter, Sarah Chadwick

Synopsis: The usually menacing British actor Terence Stamp does a complete turnaround as Bernadette, an aging transsexual who tours the backwaters of Australia with her stage partners, Mitzi (Hugo Weaving) and Adam/Felicia (Guy Pearce). Their act, well-known in Sydney, involves wearing lots of makeup and Read More

Exile

Actors: Aden Young, Beth Champion, Claudia Karvan, David Field, Norman Kaye

Synopsis: This Australian drama, based on the novel Priest Island by E.L. Grant, tells the tale of a man exiled to a lonely island after he is caught stealing sheep. The story is set in an unnamed time in an unknown time. Peter had been stealing the sheep to pay the dowry for his beloved, Jean. He is Read More

The Custodian

Actors: Anthony LaPaglia, Hugo Weaving, Barry Otto, Kelly Dingwall

Synopsis: Anthony LaPaglia, who's probably played more cops than Pat O'Brien, Edgar Kennedy and Fred Kelsey combined, dons brass and blue once more in The Custodian. LaPaglia plays a frustrated Australian policeman who decides to take on departmental corruption in a most unorthodox fashion. When he's not Read More

Frauds

Actors: Phil Collins, Hugo Weaving, Josephine Byrnes, Peter Mochrie, Helen O'Connor

Synopsis: Pop star Phil Collins abandoned his usually sunny persona for a more sinister role in this unusual comedy thriller from Australia. Jonathan Wheats (Hugo Weaving) and his best friend Michael Allen (Peter Mochrie) have a fondness for pranks and a childish sense of humor that is a frequent source of Read More

Reckless Kelly

Actors: Yahoo Serious, Melora Hardin, Alexei Sayle, Hugo Weaving, Kathleen Freeman

Synopsis: Following up his debut, Young Einstein (1988), Yahoo Serious wrote, directed and starred in this broad comedy as the titular hero, a modern-day, fictional descendant of a real-life Australian Robin Hood, Ned Kelly. Carrying on the family tradition of stealing from the rich and giving to the poor Read More

Proof

Actors: Hugo Weaving, Genevieve Picot, Russell Crowe, Heather Mitchell, Jeff Walker

Synopsis: Jocelyn Moorhouse's feature-film debut is a jet-black comedy starring Hugo Weaving as Martin, a paranoid blind man, made so because he is convinced that his mother, when he was a child, lied to him about the sights she described to him. As an adult, Martin is reclusive and ill-tempered. Read More

The Dirtwater Dynasty

Dadah Is Death

Actors: Julie Christie, John Polson, Hugo Weaving, Victor Banerjee, Sarah Jessica Parker

Synopsis: This two-part TV movie, produced in Australia, was based on the tragically true story of an Australian teenager (John Polson) condemned to death for dealing in drugs in Malaysia. Part One set up the circumstances which landed Polson and his friend Hugo Weaving on Malaysia's death row. In Part Two Read More

The Right Hand Man

Actors: Rupert Everett, Hugo Weaving, Catherine McClements, Arthur Dignam, Jennifer Claire

Synopsis: Harry Ironmaster (Rupert Everett) is an aristocratic and wealthy young man, which in his time and place should put him pretty much on top of the world. However, he is responsible for a horse-drawn coach accident in which his father is killed and he himself loses an arm. Not only that, but his Read More

... Almost

Actors: Rosanna Arquette, Bruce Spence, Hugo Weaving, Kerry Walker

Synopsis: Originally released in Australia as Wendy Cracked a Walnut, Almost made it to American shores in 1991, nearly five years after its completion. Rosanna Arquette plays Wendy, whose notions of life have been formed by romance novels. On her tenth wedding anniversary, Wendy hopes that her neglectful Read More

For Love Alone

Actors: Helen Buday, Sam Neill, Hugo Weaving, Hugh Keays-Byrne

Synopsis: Christina Stead's novel For Love Alone was a best-seller in Australia, but remains essentially unknown to the outside world. The same can be said for this 1986 film version, likewise a homegrown Australian product. Set in the 1930s, the film stars Helen Buhay as a starry-eyed young girl chafing Read More

The City's Edge

Actors: Tommy Lewis, Mark Lee, Katrina Foster, Ralph Cotterill, Hugo Weaving

Synopsis: This is an unremittingly grim melodrama about a group of hard-luck, victimized aborigines with no opportunity in life who live in a slum boarding-house on the outskirts of Sydney. Coping via pills, drugs, alcohol, and other destructive means, this collection of misfits should not be taken as Read More