Hugo Weaving

Quick Facts

Full Name	Hugo Weaving
Occupation	Movie Actor
Date Of Birth	Apr 4, 1960(1960-04-04)
Age	64
Birthplace	Ibadan
Country	Nigeria
Horoscope	Aries

Hugo Weaving Biography

Hugo Weaving is one of the most popular and richest Movie Actor who was born on April 4, 1960 in Ibadan, Nigeria. He is a well-known actor who played Elrond, Lord of Rivendell in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. He was also the antagonist Agent Smith in Matrix Trilogy, and the title character of V for Vendetta.

Director He was cast as Elrond in the award-winning Lord of the Rings trilogy by director Peter Jackson. cast him as Elrond in the acclaimed Lord of the Rings Trilogy.

Hugo Wallace Weaving AO (born 4 April 1960) is an English actor resident in Australia. He is best known for playing Agent Smith in The Matrix trilogy (1999–2003), Elrond in The Lord of the Rings (2001–2003) and The Hobbit (2012–2014) film trilogies, V in V for Vendetta (2006), and Red Skull in Captain America: The First Avenger (2011). Weaving’s first television role was in the 1984 Australian television series Bodyline, where he portrayed English cricket captain Douglas Jardine. In film, he first rose to prominence for his performance as Martin in the Australian drama Proof (1991). Weaving played Anthony “Tick” Belrose/Mitzi Del Bra in the comedy-drama The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994); and multiple roles in the science fiction film Cloud Atlas (2012). His roles as a voice actor include the roles as Rex the male sheepdog in Babe (1995), Noah the Leading Elder Emperor Penguin in Happy Feet (2006) and Happy Feet Two (2011) and as Megatron in the Transformers film series.

When he was 13 years old, Weaving was diagnosed with epilepsy. Although this disability rarely affected him and stopped completely after he turned 18, he still chooses not to drive. He has been with his longtime girlfriend Katrina Greenwood since 1984; the two live in Sydney and have two children together, Harry (b. 1989) and Holly (b. 1993). Harry is an actor who uses the stage name Harry Greenwood. Hugo also has a brother, Simon, and a sister, Anna Jane. His niece, Samara Weaving, portrayed Indigo Walker on the long-running Australian soap, Home and Away, and her younger sister Morgan joined the cast as Lottie Ryan. In 2004, Weaving became an ambassador for Australian animal rights organisation Voiceless, the animal protection institute. He attends events, promotes Voiceless in interviews, and assists in their judging of annual grants recipients. He has also been a spokesman in TV spots for Epilepsy charity.

He married Katrina Greenwood, in 1984. They had a son named Harry and a girl named Holly in 1993.

Hugo Weaving Net Worth

Hugo Weaving is one of the richest Movie Actor from Nigeria. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Hugo Weaving 's net worth $30 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Knox Grammar School was his boarding school in Sydney.

His character, Agent Smith, from The Matrix was originally deleted from the script. He was the voice of Noah in Happy Feet. He was also the voice of Megatron in Transformers.

Weaving was born on 4 April 1960 at the University of Ibadan Teaching Hospital, in Ibadan, in the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria to English parents; he is the son of Anne Lennard (born 1932), a tour guide and former teacher, and Wallace Weaving (born 1929), a seismologist. His maternal grandmother was Belgian. A year after his birth, his family returned to the United Kingdom, living in Bedford and Brighton before moving to Melbourne and Sydney in Australia; Johannesburg in South Africa; and then returning to the United Kingdom again. While in the UK, he attended The Downs School, Wraxall, near Bristol, and Queen Elizabeth’s Hospital. While at the Downs School, in 1973 Weaving played one of his first theatrical roles, taking the part of Captain Asquith in Robert Bolt’s The Thwarting of Baron Bolligrew. His family moved back to Australia in 1976, where he attended Knox Grammar School in Sydney. He graduated from Sydney’s National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1981.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Hugo Weaving Dating?

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Weaving reprised his role as Elrond for the video game The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth II. He regularly appears in productions by the Sydney Theatre Company (STC). In 2006, he worked with Cate Blanchett on a reprise of the STC production of Hedda Gabler in New York City. In a controversial move by director Michael Bay, Weaving was chosen as the Decepticon leader Megatron vocally in the 2007 live-action film Transformers, rather than using the original version of the character’s voice created by the voice actor, Frank Welker.

Facts & Trivia

Hugo Ranked on the list of most popular Movie Actor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Nigeria. Hugo Weaving celebrates birthday on April 4 of every year.

Weaving spent the summer of 2009 starring in the Melbourne Theatre Company’s production of God of Carnage, portraying the caustic lawyer Alain Reille. He returned to the stage in November 2010 in Sydney Theatre Company’s Uncle Vanya, co-starring Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh. Weaving filmed a guest role on Roxburgh’s Australian TV series Rake in May 2010.

Why is Hugo Weaving not in matrix resurrections?

In an interview with Gizmodo, The Matrix Resurrections co-writers David Mitchell and Aleksandar Hemon revealed that Hugo Weaving was almost included in the new film but was decided against due to not being the right fit for the film.

What is Hugo Weaving known for?

Weaving is most famous for his roles as Agent Smith in The Matrix and Elrond in The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, the main character of V for Vendetta and the voices of Noah the Elder in Happy Feet, Megatron in Transformers and Rex in Babe and Babe: Pig in the City. He was born in Nigeria to English parents.

Does Hugo Weaving speak Elvish?

Out of everyone who shows up, however, Hugo Weaving — who played the Elrond the Elf in the Lord of the Rings films as well as two of The Hobbit adaptations — is the only one who raps in the Elvish tongue Quenya.

What movies was Hugo Weaving in?

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Will there be a Matrix 5?

THE MATRIX 5 HASN’T OFFICIALLY BEEN ANNOUNCED As of September 2022, there is no official word from Warner Bros on The Matrix 5. However, the end of the fourth movie set up more to come, so fan expectations are high. We’ve seen from the Matrix franchise that there are never really any definitive endings.