Hugo Wallace Weaving (born 4 April 1960) is an Australian actor who is active in film, theatre and voice work. He is best known for his roles in the films The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Babe, The Matrix trilogy, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, as the masked vigilante V in V for Vendetta and the voice of Megatron in the Transformers film series.
Weaving was born in University Teaching Hospital in Ibadan, Nigeria to English parent...
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Hugo Wallace Weaving (born 4 April 1960) is an Australian actor who is active in film, theatre and voice work. He is best known for his roles in the films The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Babe, The Matrix trilogy, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, as the masked vigilante V in V for Vendetta and the voice of Megatron in the Transformers film series.
Weaving was born in University Teaching Hospital in Ibadan, Nigeria to English parents Anne, a tour guide, and Wallace Weaving, a seismologist. He spent his childhood in South Africa, the United Kingdom and Australia. While in England he attended the independent boarding school Queen Elizabeth's Hospital, commonly known in Bristol as QEH. His family moved again to Australia in 1976, where he attended another private school, Sydney's Knox Grammar School. He later graduated from Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1981.
Weaving's first major role was in the 1984 Australian television series Bodyline, as the English...
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