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Hugo Weaving

Hugo Weaving

Birthday: 1960-04-04 | Place of Birth: Ibadan, Nigeria

Hugo Wallace Weaving (born 4 April 1960) is a British actor resident in Australia. He is best known for playing Agent Smith in The Matrix trilogy (1999–2003), Elrond in The Lord of the Rings (2001–2003) and The Hobbit (2012–2014) film trilogies, V in V for Vendetta (2005), and Red Skull in the movie Captain America: The First Avenger (2011). Weaving's first television role was in the 1984 Australian television series Bodyline, where he portrayed English cricket captain Douglas Jardine. In film, he first rose to prominence for his performance as Martin in the Australian drama Proof (1991). Weaving played Anthony "Tick" Belrose/Mitzi Del Bra in the comedy-drama The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994); and multiple roles in the science fiction film Cloud Atlas (2012). His roles as a voice actor include the roles as Rex the male sheepdog in Babe (1995), Noah the Leading Elder Emperor Penguin in Happy Feet (2006) and Happy Feet Two (2011) and as Megatron in the Transformers film series. Weaving's awards for acting include a Satellite Award, MTV Movie Award and six Australian Film Institute Awards. Description above is from the Wikipedia article Hugo Weaving, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
Loveland

as    Dr. Bergman

2021
Love Me

as    Glen Mathieson

2021
Lone Wolf

as    Police Minister

2020
Measure for Measure

as    Duke

2020
Wild Australia: After the Fires

as    Narrator (voice)

2019
Hearts and Bones

as    Dan Fisher

2019
Australia in Colour

as    Narrator

2018
Patrick Melrose

as    David Melrose

2018
Black '47

as    Hannah

2018
Mortal Engines

as    Thaddeus Valentine

2017
Jasper Jones

as    Mad Jack Lionel

2016
The Dressmaker

as    Sergeant Farrat

2016
Hacksaw Ridge

as    Tom Doss

2015
Strangerland

as    Detective David Rae

2015
2014
Healing

as    Senior Officer Matt Perry

2014
The Mule

as    Tom Croft

2013
Mystery Road

as    Johnno

2012
Cloud Atlas

as    Haskell Moore / Tadeusz Kesselring / Bill Smoke / Nurse Noakes / Boardman Mephi / Old Georgie

2011
2011
Captain America: The First Avenger

as    Johann Schmidt / Red Skull

2011
Happy Feet Two

as    Noah (voice)

2011
The Key Man

as    Vincent

2010
The Wolfman

as    Inspector Francis Abberline

2010
Oranges and Sunshine

as    Jack

2010
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole

as    Noctus / Grimble (voice)