Rachel Griffiths
Rachel Anne Griffiths AM (born 18 December 1968) is an Australian film and television actress. She came to prominence with the 1994 film Muriel's Wedding and her Academy Award nominated performance in Hilary and Jackie (1998). She is best known for her portrayals of Brenda Chenowith in the HBO series Six Feet Under and Sarah Walker Laurent on the ABC primetime drama Brothers & Sisters. Her work in film and television has earned her a Golden Globe Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and three Australian Film Institute Awards.
Griffith attended Melbourne University, studying philosophy, before attending the drama department at Victoria School of the Art. After college, she began working with the touring youth company Woolly Jumpers Theater Company, as well as the Melbourne Theater Company, where she appeared in numerous dramas.
Griffiths made a name for herself in 1991 when she wrote and performed in the short film "Barbie Gets Hip,” which was screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival. She landed a few TV spots before she was cast as Rhonda, Toni Collette's sidekick in P.J. Hogan's "Muriel's Wedding" (1994), winning her an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Supporting Actress. These successes jump-started her career, landing her numerous dramatic and comedic roles in overseas productions, before making her American cinema debut with her second P.J. Hogan collaboration, "My Best Friend's Wedding” (1997).
In the fall of 2001, Griffiths accepted her first major television series role and came aboard Alan Ball’s HBO series "Six Feet Under." Griffith stayed with the show during its five years of critical acclaim, while at the same time, continued to appear an lend her voice to screen and direct-to-video features before returning to telvision to star in "Brothers and Sisters" to much similar acclaim.
Acted in
Madam
2024
as Mack Leigh
Anyone But You
2023
as Innie
A Savage Christmas
2023
as Doctor Gabrielle
Bring Him to Me
2023
as Veronica
Bali 2002
2022
as Fiona Wood
Great Southern Landscapes
2022
as Self - Presenter
The King's Daughter
2022
as Abbess
Finding the Archibald
2021
as Self - Presenter
Aftertaste
2021
as Margot
The Wilds
2020
as Gretchen Klein
Strangers To The World
2020
as Etty Hillesum
Total Control
2019
as Rachel Anderson
Dead Lucky
2018
as Grace Gibbs
Making Muriel
2017
as Herself
Don't Tell
2017
as Joy Conolly
David Stratton: A Cinematic Life
2017
as Self
When We Rise
2017
as Diane Jones
Hacksaw Ridge
2016
as Bertha Doss
Barracuda
2016
as Samantha Taylor
Mammal
2016
as Margaret
Science Fiction Volume One: The Osiris Child
2016
as General Lynex
Deadline Gallipoli
2015
as Lady Hamilton
Saving Mr. Banks
2013
as Aunt Ellie
Patrick
2013
as Matron Cassidy
Camp
2013
as Mackenzie 'Mack' Granger
Butterflies
2013
as Claire
Paper Giants: Magazine Wars
2013
as Dulcie Boling
Underground: The Julian Assange Story
2012
as Christine Assange
House Husbands
2012
as Belle
Burning Man
2011
as Miriam
Beautiful Kate
2009
as Sally Kendall
Comanche Moon
2008
as Inez Scull
The Sounds of Aus
2007
as Self
Brothers and Sisters
2006
as Sarah Walker
Genesis: Total Rock Review
2006
as Self - Interviewer
Step Up
2006
as Director Gordon
Six Feet Under: In Memoriam
2005
as Herself
Angel Rodriguez
2005
as Nicole
Plainsong
2004
as Maggie Jonas
The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina
2003
as Albertine (voice)
After the Deluge
2003
as Annie
After the Deluge
2003
as Annie
Ned Kelly
2003
as Susan Scott
Land of the Morning Star
2003
as Narrator (voice)
The Hard Word
2002
as Carol
Kath & Kim
2002
as Rachel Griffiths
The Rookie
2002
as Lorri Morris
Six Feet Under
2001
as Brenda Chenowith
Very Annie Mary
2001
as Annie Mary Pugh
Blow
2001
as Ermine Jung
Blow Dry
2001
as Sandra
Me Myself I
1999
as Pamela Drury
Rove
1999
as Self
Hilary and Jackie
1998
as Hilary Du Pré
Divorcing Jack
1998
as Lee Cooper
Amy
1998
as Tanya Rammus
Welcome to Woop Woop
1998
as Sylvia
Among Giants
1998
as Gerry
Since You've Been Gone
1998
as Sally Zalinsky
My Son the Fanatic
1997
as Bettina / Sandra
My Best Friend's Wedding
1997
as Samantha Newhouse
Children of the Revolution
1996
as Constable Anna Welch
To Have and to Hold
1996
as Kate
Once a Thief
1996
Cosi
1996
as Lucy
Jude
1996
as Arabella
Muriel's Wedding
1994
as Rhonda Epinstalk
The Feds
1993
as Angelia Braglia
Police Rescue
1991
as Shelley
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Maggie Jonas
Seeing Through the Mists of Oblivion
as Woman Underwater (archived footage)