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ChannelDate & TimeTitleBuy
ABCSun, Nov 8, 10:01 PMBrothers & Sisters NewBuy
AMCMon, Nov 9, 5:00 PMThe RookieBuy
AMCTue, Nov 10, 9:30 AMThe RookieBuy
TBSThu, Nov 12, 3:00 AMMy Best Friend's WeddingBuy
TNTSat, Nov 14, 2:00 PMStep UpBuy
ABCSun, Nov 15, 10:01 PMBrothers & Sisters NewBuy

Rachel Griffiths Biography

Rachel Griffiths
  • Birth Place: Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 06/04/1968, Gemini
  • Profession: Actor; director; writer
An amazingly versatile Aussie actress (and Juliette Lewis doppelgänger) who's made her biggest impression stateside on the small screen, Griffiths joined a traveling theater troupe after being rejected by acting school. Her breakthrough role came in the hit 1994 comedy Muriel's Wedding, in which she played the shy title character's exuberant but doomed best friend. Griffiths' electric performance earned her an Australian Film Institute Award and effectively launched her feature-film career in her homeland. She spent the rest of the '90s alternating between indies and mainstream flicks, usually in supporting roles: the cousin of the bride in My Best Friend's Wedding, Johnny Depp's unhappy mom in Blow (even though she is five years his junior in real life), and a famed flautist in the biopic Hilary and Jackie, which earned her an Oscar nod. But when she signed on to the lauded HBO drama Six Feet Under as a super-dysfunctional sex addict, she found herself squarely in the spotlight for the first time in her career. During her tenure, she racked up two Emmy nods and a Golden Globe award, married artist Andrew Taylor, had two children, and still found the time to appear in occasional films and even direct a short herself. Although the series ended in 2005, the next year she returned to TV in another dysfunctional-family drama, Brothers & Sisters.
Rachel Griffiths Fast Facts:
  • After being rejected by Australia's most prestigious acting school, the National Institute for Dramatic Arts, she joined a traveling theater company called the Woolly Jumpers.
  • For her wedding to artist Andrew Taylor, she asked guests to forego gifts and instead make donations to the Sacred Heart Mission in St. Kilda, Australia.
  • Was only in labor with her daughter, Adelaide Rose, for an hour and a half, and two days later brought the newborn to Six Feet Under's wrap party.
  • Her first two short films, Tulip (1998) and Roundabout (2002), were lauded at festivals in Melbourne, Palm Springs and Aspen.
    Rachel Griffiths Relationships:
  • Adelaide Rose Taylor - Daughter
  • Andrew Taylor - Husband
  • Anna Griffiths - Mother
  • Banjo Patrick Taylor - Son
  • Ben Griffiths - Brother
  • Clementine Grace Taylor - Daughter
  • Edward Griffiths - Father
  • Sam Griffiths - Brother

    • Rachel Griffiths Awards:
  • 2002 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television - Winner
  • 2003 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Drama - Nominee
  • 2002 Emmy: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series - Nominee
  • 2003 Emmy: Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series - Nominee
  • 1998 Oscar: Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role - Nominee
  • 2007 Emmy: Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series - Nominee
  • 2008 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television - Nominee
  • 2008 Emmy: Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series - Nominee
  • 2009 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television - Nominee

  • College:
  • Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (1990)
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