Actor
Hugo Weaving
Biography

Hugo Wallace Weaving AO (born 4 April 1960) is an English actor. Born in Colonial Nigeria to English parents, he has resided in Australia for the entirety of his career. He is the recipient of six Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards (AACTA) and has also been recognised as an Honorary Officer of the Order of Australia. Weaving landed his first major role as English cricket captain Douglas Jardine on the Australian television series Bodyline (1984). Continuing to act in Austra ...

Known For
Acting
2025 -- The Hobbit: There and Back Again | Elrond
2024 -- How to Make Gravy | Noel
2024 -- The Rooster | The Hermit
2023 -- L'Hotel Royal | Billy
2023 -- Teacups | Don Ritchie
2022 -- Franklin | Narrator
2022 -- Loveland | Dr. Bergman
2021 -- Lone Wolf | Police Minister
2020 -- Wild Australia: After the Fires | Narrator (voice)
2020 -- Measure for Measure | Duke
2019 -- Hearts and Bones | Dan Fisher
2018 -- Mortal Engines | Thaddeus Valentine
2018 -- Australia's Lost Impressionist | John Russell (voice)
2018 -- Black '47 | Hannah
2017 -- Jasper Jones | Mad Jack Lionel
2017 -- The Soul of War: Making 'Hacksaw Ridge' | Self
2016 -- Hacksaw Ridge | Tom Doss
2015 -- The Dressmaker | Sergeant Farrat
2015 -- Strangerland | Detective David Rae
2015 -- Between a Frock and a Hard Place | Self
2014 -- The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | Elrond
2014 -- Healing | Senior Officer Matt Perry
2014 -- The Mule | Tom Croft
2013 -- The Turning | Bob Lang
2013 -- Mystery Road | Johnno
2012 -- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Elrond
2012 -- Cloud Atlas | Haskell Moore / Tadeusz Kesselring / Bill Smoke / Nurse Noakes / Boardman Mephi / Old Georgie
2012 -- Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen | (archive footage)
2011 -- Happy Feet Two | Noah (voice)
2011 -- Captain America: Behind the Skull | Himself
2011 -- Captain America: The First Avenger | Johann Schmidt / Red Skull
2011 -- Transformers: Dark of the Moon | Megatron (voice)
2011 -- The Key Man | Vincent
2010 -- I, Spry | Narrator (voice)
2010 -- Oranges and Sunshine | Jack
2010 -- Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole | Noctus / Grimble (voice)
2010 -- The Wolfman | Inspector Francis Abberline
2009 -- Tackling Peace | Narrator
2009 -- Last Ride | Kev
2009 -- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | Megatron (voice)
2008 -- The Tender Hook | McHeath
2007 -- Transformers | Megatron (voice)
2007 -- In the Company of Actors | Self / Judge Brack
2007 -- The Girl Who Swallowed Bees | Narrator
2006 -- Happy Feet | Noah (voice)
2006 -- V for Vendetta | V / William Rookwood
2005 -- Little Fish | Lionel
2005 -- Peaches | Alan
2005 -- Confessions of an Action Star | Self
2005 -- Ringers: Lord of the Fans | Self
2004 -- A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King' | Self
2004 -- The Matrix Revolutions Revisited | Self
2004 -- The Matrix Reloaded Revisited | Self
2004 -- Everything Goes |
2004 -- The Matrix Revolutions: Double Agent Smith | Himself
2004 -- Mind Over Matter: The Physicality of the Matrix Future | Self
2004 -- The Matrix Recalibrated | Self
2003 -- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Elrond
2003 -- Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King | Self
2003 -- The Matrix Revolutions | Agent Smith
2003 -- The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load | Self
2003 -- After the Deluge | Marty
2003 -- Horseplay | Narrator (voice)
2003 -- The Matrix Reloaded | Agent Smith
2002 -- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Elrond
2002 -- Lord of the Piercing | Elrond (archive footage)
2001 -- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Elrond
2001 -- A Passage to Middle-Earth: Making of 'Lord of the Rings' | Self
2001 -- Quest for the Ring | Self
2001 -- The Matrix Revisited | Self - Agent Smith
2001 -- Russian Doll | Harvey
2001 -- The Old Man Who Read Love Stories |
2000 -- The Magic Pudding | Bill Barnacle (voice)
1999 -- Strange Planet | Steven
1999 -- Little Echo Lost | Echo Man
1999 -- Making 'The Matrix' | Self
1999 -- The Matrix | Agent Smith
1998 -- Babe: Pig in the City | Rex (voice)
1998 -- Bedrooms and Hallways | Jeremy
1998 -- The Interview | Eddie Rodney Fleming
1998 -- The Kiss | Frank
1997 -- True Love and Chaos | Morris
1996 -- Wild Australia: The Edge | Narrator (voice)
1995 -- Babe | Rex (voice)
1994 -- Ladies Please! | Self
1994 -- The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | Anthony 'Tick' Belrose / Mitzi Del Bra
1994 -- The Forgotten Force | Narrator
1994 -- The Custodian | Frank Church
1993 -- Frauds | Jonathan Wheats
1993 -- Reckless Kelly | Sir John
1992 -- Road to Alice |
1991 -- Proof | Martin
1990 -- Wendy Cracked a Walnut | Jake
1988 -- Dadah Is Death | Geoffrey Chambers
1987 -- The Right Hand Man | Ned Devine
1986 -- For Love Alone | Jonathan Crow
1983 -- The City's Edge | Andy White
1981 -- ...Maybe This Time | Student #2
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