Birth Date: February 20, 1968
Birth Place: Melbourne, Victoria, Austrailia
Occupation: Actress, director, writer
Claim to Fame: Hilary and Jackie, 1998
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Dark Brown
Rachel Griffiths
Rachel Griffiths Links: Rachel Griffiths at Babe Invasion Top Celebrity Pages: Rachel Griffiths Bomis: Rachel Griffiths TeraBabes: Rachel Griffiths Rachel Griffiths Quotes: “…it's like I've got two different sides of my brain. My acting creature is this very volatile - it's like a boxer, I'm prepped up for the fight, just ready to react. The director in me is much calmer and it's the other side of the brain, I'm unemotional - well I'm not unemotional, but I don't react emotionally - I react kind of in a problem-solving, practical kind of way.” “I think drama on commercial television is toothpaste delivery devises, you know or insurance delivery devises, and I think it's impossible for people to be as engaged in a drama when they are being constantly interrupted.” |
Trivia:
-Married to Andrew Taylor (31 December 2002 - present)
-Dated actor Eric Stoltz while in England filming Very Annie Mary (2000).
-Often mistaken for actress Juliette Lewis, to whom she bears a striking resemblance
-Once said to Bill Hunter, in a bout of insecurity, on the set of Muriel's Wedding (1994), "I'm kinda waiting for them to find out that I can't act". He encouraged her with the reply, "Rachel, I've been waiting 40 years, and they never find out!"
-In 1997 in order to protest the building of a casino in her native Melbourne, Griffiths stood outside the construction site wearing only a loin cloth, and holding a sign that said “Need, not greed.” Was asked by media why she felt the need to do so and replied :"If I didn't flash my tits, you wouldn't have put me in the paper!"
-Rachel and husband Andrew Taylor are reportedly donating all their wedding
gifts and money from sales of their wedding photographs to the Sacred
Heart Mission in Melbourne, Australia
Filmography as Actor:
"After the Deluge" (2003) (mini) TV Series .... Annie
Ned Kelly (2003) .... Mrs. Scott
Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina, The (2002) (V) (voice) .... Albertine
Hard Word, The (2002) .... Carol
Rookie, The (2002) .... Lorri Morris
"Six Feet Under" (2001) TV Series .... Brenda Chenowith
Very Annie Mary (2001) .... Annie Mary
Blow (2001) .... Ermine Jung
Blow Dry (2001) .... Sandra
Me Myself I (1999) .... Pamela Drury
Hilary and Jackie (1998) .... Hilary 'Hils' du Pré
Amy (1998) .... Tanya Rammus
Divorcing Jack (1998) .... Lee Cooper
Among Giants (1998) .... Gerry
Since You've Been Gone (1998) (TV) .... Sally Zalinsky
My Son the Fanatic (1997) .... Bettina
My Best Friend's Wedding (1997) .... Samantha Newhouse
Welcome to Woop Woop (1997) .... Sylvia
To Have and to Hold (1997) .... Kate
Jude (1996) .... Arabella
Children of the Revolution (1996) .... Constable Anna
Cosi (1996) .... Lucy
Small Treasures (1995) .... Jane
"Jimeoin" (1994) TV Series .... Various Characters
Muriel's Wedding (1994) .... Rhonda
Feds, The (1993) (TV) .... Angela Nraglia
"Secrets" (1993) TV Series .... Sarah Foster
Filmography as Writer/Director:
Roundabout (2002)
Tulip (1998)
