Hottest pictures of Rachel Griffiths. Rachel Griffiths, aka Rachel Anne Griffiths, the Australian actress, was born on 18th December 1968 in Melbourne, Australia. The actress joined the Woolly Jumpers, a Geelong-based community theatre group. Barbie Gets Hip, written and performed by her, was played at the Melbourne Fringe Festival 1991.
Griffiths was cast in the 1994 film Muriel’s Wedding, for which she earned the Australian Film Critics Award, Australian Film Institute Awards for Best Supporting Actress. Griffiths made her American film debut with My Best Friend’s Wedding in 1997.
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Griffiths received an Academy Art Nomination for flutist Hilary du Pré before being cast in the Australian comedy Me Myself I (1999). In 2001, she was cast in the English comedy show Blow Dry to play a lesbian hairdresser.
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During 2001-2005, the actress played masseuse Brenda Chenowith in Six Feet Under, an HBO series for which she received a 2002 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. Griffiths was nominated for multiple Primetime Emmy Awards for portraying Sarah Walker Laurent in the drama series Brothers & Sisters.
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She acted in films including Blow, Ned Kelly, Step Up, Underground: A Julian Assange Story. In 2016, Griffith was cast in the American miniseries When We Rise, about LGBTQ rights. The actress appeared in Hacksaw Ridge, the war-drama for which she earned an AACTA nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
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Griffiths received a Helpmann Award for appearing in Proof in 2002. Later she made her Broadway debut in Other Desert cities. The actress’s directorial debut was with the short film Tulip in 1998. In 2015, she debuted as a television series director with the Australian teen drama Nowhere Boys.