Australian actor Hugo Weaving, widely known for his portrayal of Agent Smith in the Matrix trilogy, graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1981 and has since worked extensively in film, television and theatre. He was recently seen in the first two installments of Peter Jackson’s epic trilogy The Lord of the Rings as Elrond, Lord of Rivendell.

Weaving won an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in 1988 for his work in The Interview, directed by Craig Monahan. In 1991 he won an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor for his work in Proof, directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse. He also received an AFI Award nomination in 1994 for The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, directed by Stephen Elliot.

Weaving’s other film credits include The Old Man Who Read Love Stories, Strange Planet, Bedrooms and Hallways, True Love and Chaos, Stephen Elliot’s Frauds, The Custodian, Paul Cox’s Exile, Reckless Kelly, Wendy Cracked a Walnut, The Right Hand Man, For Love Alone and The City’s Edge.

His television credits include the Australian miniseries Bodyline, the Australian series Halifax f.p., the telefilm The Bite, the miniseries Bangkok Hilton (also starring Nicole Kidman), The Dirtywater Dynasty, Naked - Coral Island, Barlow and Chambers: A Long Way From Home and Melba.

His theatre credits include the Sydney Theatre Company’s Macbeth, The Perfectionist, The Cherry Orchard and Arcadia. He has also starred in Much Ado About Nothing and The Taming of the Shrew for the Melbourne Theatre Company, and in Julius Caesar, Ring Around the Moon and Private Lives for the State Theatre Company of South Australia.