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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.

When The War Is Over
as Self - Presenter

Sam Pang Tonight
as Self - Guest

Madam
as Mack Leigh

Anyone But You
as Innie

A Savage Christmas
as Doctor Gabrielle

Bring Him to Me
as Veronica

Bali 2002
as Fiona Wood

Great Southern Landscapes
as Self - Presenter

The King's Daughter
as Abbess

Finding the Archibald
as Self - Presenter

Aftertaste
as Margot

The Wilds
as Gretchen Klein

The Sound
as Self - Host

Strangers To The World
as Etty Hillesum

Total Control
as Rachel Anderson

Dead Lucky
as Grace Gibbs

Making Muriel
as Self

Don't Tell
as Joy Conolly

Jill Bilcock: The Art of Film Editing
as Self

David Stratton: A Cinematic Life
as Self

When We Rise
as Diane Jones

Hacksaw Ridge
as Bertha Doss

Barracuda
as Samantha Taylor

Mammal
as Margaret

Science Fiction Volume One: The Osiris Child
as General Lynex

Deadline Gallipoli
as Lady Hamilton

Saving Mr. Banks
as Aunt Ellie

Patrick
as Matron Cassidy

Camp
as Mackenzie 'Mack' Granger

Butterflies
as Claire

Paper Giants: Magazine Wars
as Dulcie Boling

Underground: The Julian Assange Story
as Christine Assange

House Husbands
as Belle

Burning Man
as Miriam

Beautiful Kate
as Sally Kendall

Q&A
as Self - Panellist

Comanche Moon
as Inez Scull

The Sounds of Aus
as Self
Brothers & Sisters: Family Album
as Self/Sarah Whedon

Brothers and Sisters
as Sarah Walker

Genesis: Total Rock Review
as Self - Interviewer

Step Up
as Director Gordon

Six Feet Under: In Memoriam
as Herself

Angel Rodriguez
as Nicole

Plainsong
as Maggie Jonas

The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina
as Albertine (voice)

After the Deluge
as Annie

After the Deluge
as Annie

Ned Kelly
as Susan Scott

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
Land of the Morning Star
as Narrator (voice)

The Hard Word
as Carol

Kath & Kim
as Rachel Griffiths

V Graham Norton
as Self

The Rookie
as Lorri Morris

Six Feet Under
as Brenda Chenowith

Very Annie Mary
as Annie Mary Pugh

Blow
as Ermine Jung

Blow Dry
as Sandra

Me Myself I
as Pamela Drury