Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1166
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Jacki Weaver represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 52 years in, and Jacki is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Jacki Weaver appears in 28 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jacki. Memoir of a Snail is the clearest case: a film rated 7.6 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for mystery, horror, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Nathalie Boltt, Adam Elliot, Harry Cripps and others, Jacki Weaver helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Memoir of a Snail (2024) as Pinky (voice) · Back to the Outback (2021) as Jackie (voice) · Wildflower (2023) as Loretta
Career snapshot
Ranked #1166 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
28
1975–2027
Career length
52 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Memoir of a Snail
Average Nutevio score
6.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
Memoir of a Snail
Most frequent director
Nathalie Boltt
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Nathalie Boltt
Most common genre
Drama
22 titles
Average runtime
1h 40m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.8
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
1970s
7.0 average MV
The 1970s are where the work and the material meet. Picnic at Hanging Rock — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1970s
7.0
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1970s
7.2
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1970s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Picnic at Hanging Rock.
Most productive era
2010s
16 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1970s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.01 film | 6.512 films | 6.69 films |
| Thriller | — | 6.63 films | — |
| Comedy | — | 6.59 films | 6.77 films |
| Crime | — | 6.03 films | 5.91 film |
| Romance | — | 6.55 films | 5.81 film |
| Horror | — | 6.34 films | 0.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Minnie.
Highest rated performance
7.6 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2027Pendulum
The current state of the argument, as Ella-Rose.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
28 of 28 films
as Pinky (voice)
Directed by Adam Elliot
as Loretta
Directed by Unknown
as Jackie (voice)
Directed by Harry Cripps
as Dolores Solatano
Directed by David O. Russell
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Pinky (voice)
Memoir of a Snail (2024)
Performance score7.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Pinky (voice) gives Jacki Weaver a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Loretta
Wildflower (2023)
Performance score7.5
Wildflower asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Loretta is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kathleen Long
Father Stu (2022)
Performance score7.5
Father Stu asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kathleen Long is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Jackie (voice)
Back to the Outback (2021)
Performance score7.4
Back to the Outback asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jackie (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Pinky (voice)
Start here. Memoir of a Snail is the clearest statement of what Jacki Weaver does — accessible, 94 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Jacki at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
Keeps the comedy register of Memoir of a Snail but asks for a colder reading of it.
Back to the Outback (2021)
Keeps the comedy register of Silver Linings Playbook but asks for a colder reading of it.
Father Stu (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Back to the Outback — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Wildflower (2023)
Same director as Father Stu, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Peter Weir
Director
1 film together
Notably Picnic at Hanging Rock
David O. Russell
Director
1 film together
Notably Silver Linings Playbook
Nicholas Stoller
Director
1 film together
Notably The Five-Year Engagement
Peter Landesman
Director
1 film together
Notably Parkland
Park Chan-wook
Director
1 film together
Notably Stoker
Marjane Satrapi
Director
1 film together
Notably The Voices
Woody Allen
Director
1 film together
Notably Magic in the Moonlight
Maya Forbes
Director
1 film together
Notably The Polka King
James Franco
Director
1 film together
Notably The Disaster Artist
Stephanie Laing
Director
1 film together
Notably Irreplaceable You
Steve McQueen
Director
1 film together
Notably Widows
Susanne Bier
Director
1 film together
Notably Bird Box
Ben Falcone
Director
1 film together
Notably Life of the Party
Glendyn Ivin
Director
1 film together
Notably Penguin Bloom
Harry Cripps
Director
1 film together
Notably Back to the Outback
Adam Elliot
Director
1 film together
Notably Memoir of a Snail
Nathalie Boltt
Director
1 film together
Notably Holy Days
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Adam Elliot
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Memoir of a SnailHarry Cripps
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Back to the OutbackDavid O. Russell
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Silver Linings PlaybookJames Franco
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Disaster ArtistStephanie Laing
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Irreplaceable YouPeter Weir
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Picnic at Hanging RockGlendyn Ivin
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Penguin BloomSusanne Bier
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bird BoxNathalie Boltt
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Holy DaysPark Chan-wook
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
StokerSteve McQueen
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
WidowsWoody Allen
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Magic in the MoonlightMarjane Satrapi
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The VoicesPeter Landesman
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ParklandBen Falcone
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Life of the PartyNicholas Stoller
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Five-Year EngagementMaya Forbes
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Polka KingSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Silver Linings Playbook
as Dolores Solatano
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Silver Linings Playbook
as Dolores Solatano
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Back to the Outback
as Jackie (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Back to the Outback
as Jackie (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Memoir of a Snail
as Pinky (voice)
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Jacki Weaver has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
52 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
22 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Picnic at Hanging Rock
as Minnie
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Bird Box
as Cheryl
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Silver Linings Playbook
as Dolores Solatano
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Out of Blue
as Miriam Rockwell
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Back to the Outback
as Jackie (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Back to the Outback
as Jackie (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Memoir of a Snail
as Pinky (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Five-Year Engagement
as Sylvia Dickerson-Barnes
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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