Jacki Weaver has been acting for 50 years. Source: HWT Image Library
Fiona Byrne, The Herald Sun, reports
Jacki Weaver has reached a career highpoint, as she celebrates her 50th year as an actor.
"November 1962 is when I first played Cinderella, I was 15. 50 years -- god!" Weaver said at the Qantas Spirit of Australia party in LA yesterday.
Weaver, 64, who was nominated for an Academy Award as best supporting actress for her role in Animal Kingdom last year, has filmed four US movies since the Oscars and has three more movies lined up this year.
She will also shoot a pilot for a HBO TV series as well as taking to the stage in New York later in the year.
Next month she will start shooting the film, Wild Oats with Shirley MacLaine.
"She is divine. I have met her a few times and she is gorgeous," Weaver said.
She recently finished filming The Silver Linings Playbook in which she played Robert De Niro's wife and Bradley Cooper's mother.
"I was perfectly content with my career (before Animal Kingdom), I was never really out of work and I used to work really hard," she said.
"But I never expected to walk down the street in LA and get recognised all the time.
"I get more recognition here, every second stranger stops me, whereas at home I am just the old bag lady in Kings Cross with my shopping trolley."
She said her publisher was urging her to put pen to paper about her Hollywood fairytale.
"I think is it fair to say David Michod (Animal Kingdom director) has changed my life. Sometimes I think it could all evaporate tomorrow and I would not mind," she said, adding she has read about 50 film scripts in the past year.
"Thirty years ago I would have had more stamina, but I would have been more anxious about whether it would last.
"I think I have more grace because I am older and can accept what happens," she said.
Fiona Byrne travelled to LA as a guest of Qantas
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