Rachel Griffiths
Also Known As: Rachel Anne Griffiths, ریچل گریفیتس, Рейчел Гріффітс
Biography: Rachel Anne Griffiths AM (born 18 December 1968) is an Australian film and television actress. She came to prominence with the 1994 film Muriel's Wedding and her Academy Award nominated performance in Hilary and Jackie (1998). She is best known for her portrayals of Brenda Chenowith in the HBO series Six Feet Under and Sarah Walker Laurent on the ABC primetime drama Brothers & Sisters. Her work in film and television has earned her a Golden Globe Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and three Australian Film Institute Awards. Griffith attended Melbourne University, studying philosophy, before attending the drama department at Victoria School of the Art. After college, she began working with the touring youth company Woolly Jumpers Theater Company, as well as the Melbourne Theater Company, where she appeared in numerous dramas. Griffiths made a name for herself in 1991 when she wrote and performed in the short film "Barbie Gets Hip,” which was screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival. She landed a few TV spots before she was cast as Rhonda, Toni Collette's sidekick in P.J. Hogan's "Muriel's Wedding" (1994), winning her an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Supporting Actress. These successes jump-started her career, landing her numerous dramatic and comedic roles in overseas productions, before making her American cinema debut with her second P.J. Hogan collaboration, "My Best Friend's Wedding” (1997). In the fall of 2001, Griffiths accepted her first major television series role and came aboard Alan Ball’s HBO series "Six Feet Under." Griffith stayed with the show during its five years of critical acclaim, while at the same time, continued to appear an lend her voice to screen and direct-to-video features before returning to telvision to star in "Brothers and Sisters" to much similar acclaim.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Muriel's Wedding
Overview: A young social outcast in Australia steals money from her parents to finance a vacation where she hopes to find happiness, and perhaps love.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-29
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Ned Kelly
Overview: After getting threatened by Kelly's friends and family, Constable Fitzpatrick places the blame on Ned Kelly and exaggerates what happened. With the biggest ever award available, Kelly and his gang set into the wild, to remain hidden from everyone who seeks them. Even if it means having his family arrested, the members of the Kelly Gang stay hidden and plan a way to get their names cleared.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-22
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Blow
Overview: A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes bankrupt. George does not want the same thing to happen to him, and his friend Tuna, in the 1960's, suggests that he deal marijuana. He is a big hit in California in the 1960's, yet he goes to jail, where he finds out about the wonders of cocaine. As a result, when released, he gets rich by bringing cocaine to America. However, he soon pays the price.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-04
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Amy
Overview: Amy's father, Franco, was a popular rock musician accidentally electrocuted while performing on stage. The psychological trauma leaves Amy mute and deaf. So the 8-year-old is brought by her mother, Tanya, to Melbourne to diagnose the reasons for her continued silence.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-27
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My Best Friend's Wedding
Overview: When she receives word that her longtime platonic pal Michael O'Neal is getting married to debutante Kimberly Wallace, food critic Julianne Potter realizes her true feelings for Michael -- and sets out to sabotage the wedding.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-19
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Step Up
Overview: Tyler Gage receives the opportunity of a lifetime after vandalizing a performing arts school, gaining him the chance to earn a scholarship and dance with an up and coming dancer, Nora.
Genres: Music Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-11
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Anyone But You
Overview: After an amazing first date, Bea and Ben’s fiery attraction turns ice cold — until they find themselves unexpectedly reunited at a destination wedding in Australia. So they do what any two mature adults would do: pretend to be a couple.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-12-21
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Children of the Revolution
Overview: A man (Richard Roxburgh) the Australian government blames for 1990s political woes blames his mother (Judy Davis), a communist Stalin seduced in 1951.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-26
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Beautiful Kate
Overview: Ned Kendall is asked to return to the remote and isolated family home by his sister, to say goodbye to his father who is dying. Ned also brings his young aspiring actress fiancee who struggles with the isolation. When home he starts having memories of his childhood many involving his beautiful twin sister and his older brother. These memories awaken long-buried secrets from the family's past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-06
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The Rookie
Overview: Jim Morris never made it out of the minor leagues before a shoulder injury ended his pitching career twelve years ago. Now a married-with-children high-school chemistry teacher and baseball coach in Texas, Jim's team makes a deal with him: if they win the district championship, Jim will try out with a major-league organization. The bet proves incentive enough for the team, and they go from worst to first, making it to state for the first time in the history of the school. Jim, forced to live up to his end of the deal, is nearly laughed off the try-out field--until he gets onto the mound, where he confounds the scouts (and himself) by clocking successive 98 mph fastballs, good enough for a minor-league contract with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Jim's still got a lot of pitches to throw before he makes it to The Show, but with his big-league dreams revived, there's no telling where he could go.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-25
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The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina
Overview: Voiced by Elijah Wood, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and others, this film features Tom Thumb and Thumbelina, the tiny, famed fairy-tale favorites, who are together for the first time in this heartwarming, magical musical story about courage and friendship. After 15 years, the two reunite and remember when their village was destroyed by a giant. Soon, they find out that they have neat powers they can use for good.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-08
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Very Annie Mary
Overview: Set in the fictional village of "Ogw" in the valleys of south-east Wales. After her father Jack suffers a stroke Annie Mary Pugh is forced to take care of him but uses the circumstances to emancipate herself and find the courage to sing once again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-25
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Divorcing Jack
Overview: He's Irish, he's ageing, he drinks, is a touch cynical and when he has time writes a newspaper column. On the eve of the country's first election as an independent state, Dan Starkey's life is about to change after he finds the young woman he has just made love to dead and his only ally is a nun
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-01
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The Hard Word
Overview: Three fraternal bank robbers, languishing in jail, discover a profitable (if not dodgy) way to spend their time. Crime can most certainly pay, if you "know wot I mean?" However when sex and greed rear-up between the good crims and the bad cops, the consequences are both bizarre and fatal.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-30
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Blow Dry
Overview: The annual British Hairdressing Championship comes to Keighley, a town where Phil and son Brian run a barbershop and Phil's ex-wife Shelly and her lover Sandra run a beauty salon.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-01
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To Have and to Hold
Overview: An Australian widower living in New Guinea starts a relationship with a woman very similar to his much-beloved wife, but their life together turns out to be far from the imagined romantic ideal.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-31
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Hilary and Jackie
Overview: The tragic story of world-renowned cellist Jacqueline du Pré, as told from the point of view of her sister, flautist Hilary du Pré-Finzi.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-30
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Bring Him to Me
Overview: Under orders from a ruthless crime boss, a getaway driver must battle his conscience and drive an unsuspecting crew member to an ambush execution. There is a long drive ahead.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-02
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Burning Man
Overview: An English chef with a chic restaurant on Bondi Beach trying to put his life and his relationship with his son back on track while surrounded by women.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-10
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Cosi
Overview: Lewis, a young amateur theater director, is offered a job with a governmental program for the rehabilitation of mentally ill patients in a Sydney institution. His project is overrun by one of the patients who wants to stage the opera Cosi Fan Tutte by Mozart despite the fact that none of the patients are able to sing and none of them speak Italian. A comedy of errors ensues, but one which unifies the patients and their director in unexpected ways.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-04
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My Son the Fanatic
Overview: Pakistani taxi-driver Parvez and prostitute Bettina find themselves trapped in the middle when Islamic fundamentalists decide to clean up their local town.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-21
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After the Deluge
Overview: Follows the stories of the four men of the Kirby family. As Alex's marriage breaks apart, Toby tries desperately to start a family, and Marty tries to kick-start his faded music career as well as find a meaningful relationship with someone his own age, all three must come to terms with their father's mental state. Cliff, suffering from Alzheimer's disease, is reliving his disturbing memories of the war and his first love, as a part of his experiences of the present . Through all four stories, we uncover a families troubled past, and their struggle towards a reconciled future.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-06-15
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Among Giants
Overview: A manager hires Ray, off the books, to paint all the power towers in a 15-mile stretch of high-tension wires outside Sheffield. Ray's crew of men are friends, especially Ray with Steve, a young Romeo. Into the mix comes Gerry, an Australian with a spirit of adventure and mountain climbing skills. She wants a job, and against the others' advice, who don't want a woman on the job, Ray hires her. Then she and Ray fall in love. He asks her to marry him, gives her a ring. Steve's jealous; Ray's ex-wife complains that he spends on Gerry, not his own kids, and she predicts that Gerry won't stay around. Plus, there's pressure to finish the job fast. Economics, romance, and wanderlust spark the end.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-24
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Saving Mr. Banks
Overview: Author P.L. Travers looks back on her childhood while reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-29
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Angel Rodriguez
Overview: A pregnant New York social worker tries to help a troubled teenager whose father kicked him out of his home.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-15
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Genesis: Total Rock Review
Overview: With approximately 150 million albums sold worldwide, Genesis are one of the highest selling recording groups of all time. From being one of the most revered bands of the 1970s led by Peter Gabriel, they went on to achieve massive commercial success in the Phil Collins era and have made a lasting impression on musical history. Combining extensive archive footage of performances with penetrating interviews with the band and the critics, this film offers a comprehensive review of the changing face of Genesis, and provides key insights to the music which shaped their career.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-29
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Underground: The Julian Assange Story
Overview: In 1989, known as Mendax, Julian Assange and two friends formed a group called the International Subversives. Using early home computers and defining themselves as white hat hackers - those who look but don’t steal – they broke into some of the world’s most powerful and secretive organisations. In the eyes of the US Government, they were a major threat to national security.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-07
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Butterflies
Overview: A young artist sits on the sidewalk, struggling to make a living. She makes drawings for the passersby. A businessman recognises her talents and offers her a paying job. The prospect seems inviting but the reality threatens to kill her imagination.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-15
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Patrick
Overview: Patrick lays comatose in a small private hospital, his only action being his involuntary spitting. When a pretty young nurse, just separated from her husband, begins work at the hospital, she senses that Patrick is communicating with her, and he seems to be using his psychic powers to manipulate events in her life.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-15
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A Savage Christmas
Overview: After years of estrangement, trans woman Davina Savage returns home for Christmas with her new boyfriend. Expecting her transition to be the focus, it’s instead overshadowed by family secrets and lies which threaten not only their lives – but another Christmas lunch.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-16
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The King's Daughter
Overview: King Louis XIV's quest for immortality leads him to capture and steal a mermaid's life force, a move that is further complicated by his illegitimate daughter's discovery of the creature.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-01-21
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Jude
Overview: In late 19th-century England, Jude aspires to be an academic, but is hobbled by his blue-collar background. Instead, he works as a stonemason and is trapped in an unloving marriage to a farmer's daughter named Arabella. But when his wife leaves him, Jude sees an opportunity to improve himself. He moves to the city and begins an affair with his married cousin, Sue, courting tragedy every step of the way.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-06
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Seeing Through the Mists of Oblivion
Overview: After the end of civilization, an aged man undergoes a mysterious journey through space and time that takes him through memories, visions, and historical events, ultimately transcending the limitations of the senses and into a new cosmic rebirth.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction History Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-05-26
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Land of the Morning Star
Overview: The western half of the island of New Guinea has been known by many names including Netherlands New Guinea, West Papua, Irian Jaya and Papua. It is an extraordinary place where snow-capped mountains drain into massive rivers and 250 languages are spoken. For centuries, the world has jostled for control of this rugged, isolated region, with its abundant natural resources and strategic position. Through eyewitness accounts and rare archival film, this fascinating documentary paints a picture that is intimate in detail but epic in scope. It is a sweeping saga of colonial ambitions, cold war sellouts and fervent nationalism, which highlights the role of players such as Australia and the UN at crucial points.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Since You've Been Gone
Overview: The story of a 10th anniversary High School reunion, told through the eyes of a doctor who was humiliated on graduation day by being badly beaten up by a fellow graduate.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-06
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Me Myself I
Overview: Pamela Drury is unhappy, and alone. On her birthday she stumbles across a photo of Robert Dickson, and wonders what would've happened had she said yes to his proposal. A freak accident causes Pamela to live out the life she could've had, but is the grass on the other side always greener?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-06
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Welcome to Woop Woop
Overview: A con artist escapes a deal gone wrong in New York and winds up in the Aussie outback in a strange town whose inhabitants are an oddball collection of misfits.
Genres: Music Comedy Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-13
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Hacksaw Ridge
Overview: WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-07
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Mammal
Overview: After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the escalation of her ex-husband's grieving rage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-01
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Don't Tell
Overview: Based on true events that changed the law. This is the story of a survivor, Lyndal, a young woman sexually abused as an 11 year old while attending a prestigious school. Her courage to fight for justice is entrusted to a local lawyer determined to build a case and give Lyndal peace from her torment. With the help of his aspiring young associate and an enigmatic barrister, the lawyer and Lyndal find their way together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-18
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Science Fiction Volume One: The Osiris Child
Overview: Set in the future in a time of interplanetary colonization, an unlikely pair race against an impending global crisis and are confronted by the monsters that live inside us all.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-17
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David Stratton: A Cinematic Life
Overview: A compelling personal journey with David Stratton, as he relates the fascinating development of our cinema history. David guides us from his boyhood cinema experience of Australia in England, where he saw the first images of this strange and exotic landscape via the medium of film, to his migration to Australia as a ‘ten pound pom’ in 1963 and onto his present day reflections on the iconic themes that run through our cinematic legacy. All of this reflects a passionate engagement in a uniquely Australian medium. Parallel and at the heart of the series is the story of an industry whose growing pains David has witnessed over a lifetime. Alongside David, the protagonists of this history are the giants of Australian cinema – both behind the camera and in front of it.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-09
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Making Muriel
Overview: Making Muriel gives audiences exclusive behind the scenes access as P.J. Hogan adapts his iconic film, Muriel's Wedding into a stage musical for Sydney Theatre Company, 23 years after the film was a surprise box office hit.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-31
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Plainsong
Overview: Tom Guthrie, a high school history teacher, is faced with raising two young sons after his wife leaves him. Maggie Jones, a fellow teacher, tries to provide comfort and support.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-25
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Strangers To The World
Overview: A short documentary about the lives of Etty Hillesum and Franz Jaegerstaetter.
Genres: Documentary History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-06-30
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Six Feet Under: In Memoriam
Overview: A eulogy for the groundbreaking HBO series.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-25
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The Sounds of Aus
Overview: The Sounds of Aus tells the story of the Australian accent: how it came about, how it has evolved over two hundred years of colonial and cultural history, and how it is today.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-08
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Total Control
Overview: Alex Irving, an Indigenous woman, gets media attention after her heroic action. Her life then changes when the prime minister recruits her as a senator.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-13
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