Hugo Weaving Biography

Hugo Weaving was born in Ibadan Nigeria on April 4 1960. He played Agent Smith in The Matrix film trilogy and Elrond in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. Often cast as a villain Weaving has had starring roles in Transformers Captain America and Cloud Atlas.
During his childhood his family lived in England Australia and South Africa but eventually settled in England where Weaving attended boarding school in Bristol. Almost fresh out of school Hugo Weaving gained attention with his performance in The City's Edge a low-budget film said to be the first to realistically portray the living conditions of aborigines. Throughout the 1980s and '90s he appeared in a number of Australian productions including the 1989 film Bangkok Hilton in which he appeared opposite Nicole Kidman. Two years later he won the Best Actor award from the Australian Film Institute for his performance in Proof a black comedy about a blind photographer which also featured his countryman Russell Crowe.
Not one to be pigeonholed Weaving appeared in drag in the 1994 film The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert and lent his signature baritone voice as the narrator in Babe. One of his most widely known roles came as Agent Smith in the 1999 sci-fi blockbuster The Matrix. Later audiences worldwide would find his lean frame and arched eyebrows a natural fit in his role as the half-elf Elrond in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings film trilogy.

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