Background

Samara Weaving was born on February 23, 1992, in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. She spent the years after that moving around from Singapore, Fiji, Indonesia, and back to Australia with her family. She is the daughter of Simon Weaving and Helena Bezzina. Her father Simon is a filmmaker and the artistic director of the Canberra International Film Festival. Her mother Helena is Maltese. She has a younger sister named Morgan Weaving, who is also an actress. She has an uncle named Hugo Weaving, who is a film and theatre actor.

Education

During her childhood, Samara attended grade school in Jakarta, Indonesia, eventually going to Pittwater House School in Australia in 2004 prior to then joining the Canberra Girls' Grammar School.

Career

With a life of such hectic moving around, it should come as no surprise that Samara Weaving spent much time along the way performing in short films, dance and stage shows, and even with the Singapore Dance Company and Canberra Youth Theatre. In 2008, she was cast as Kirsten Mulroney on the BBC series, Out of the Blue (2008). While it only technically ran for a season, the season consisted of 129 episodes, with Samara appearing in 48 of them. That kind of exposure led to her next big gig as Indi Walker on the Australian soap opera Home and Away (1988), a series in which she would star in over 300 episodes. Even with all that success, family connections are never a bad thing. After leaving Home and Away (1988) in 2013, Samara landed her first feature role in Mystery Road (2013) a film which starred her celebrity uncle, Hugo Weaving. From here, she went on to star in the 2015 TV movie Squirrel Boys (2015) and followed that up in a big way with a major role in 2015's Monster Trucks (2016) alongside veteran actors such as Rob Lowe and Danny Glover. Samara also models for Australian underwear brand, Bonds.

From 2017 to 2019, she played Nelson Rose in the Showtime series SMILF. In December 2018, it was announced that Weaving was leaving the show after the second season. She reportedly complained about pressure to perform nude in a sex scene by the show’s creator, Frankie Shaw, when she had a no-nudity clause. The actor was released from her contract at her own request and the show was subsequently canceled.

In 2018, Weaving appeared in the Picnic at Hanging Rock miniseries as one of three students who disappear during a school trip to the titular Hanging Rock.

In 2019, Weaving starred in the comedic thriller Ready or Not, opposite Adam Brody, Andie MacDowell, and Mark O'Brien, and directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett for Fox Searchlight. The film and her performance received positive reviews. She will next star in Jason Lei Howden's action comedy Guns Akimbo with Daniel Radcliffe, Bill & Ted Face the Music as Thea Preston, and Snake Eyes as Scarlett.

Achievements

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  Samara Weaving is an established personality in the Australian television and film industry. She is widely known for television series and movies. In 2002, she got a nomination for 1st AACTA Awards for her role Indi in Home and Away under the category for Best Female Performance in a Television Drama.
  
  She has done endorsement work for brands such as Bonds.
  
  In 2017, Samara made an appearance in the music video "Attention" by Charlie Puth.

Works

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  • Ready or Not

    (Ready or Not follows a young bride as she joins her new h...)

    2019
  • Bad Girl

    (Bad girl Amy (Sara West), 17, is given one last chance by...)

    2018
  • Mystery Road

    (Indigenous cowboy detective Jay Swan returns to his outba...)

    2013
  • Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

    (Award-winning actress Frances McDormand (Fargo) delivers ...)

    2017
  • Monster Trucks

    (Monster Trucks is a 2016 American monster action comedy f...)

    2017
  • Mayhem

    (Just after being fired, Derek’s office is put into quaran...)

    2017
  • Guns Akimbo

    (A guy relies on his newly acquired gladiator skills to sa...)

    2020

• TV series

  • Picnic at Hanging Rock

    (A reimagining of the iconic Australian novel that plunges...)

    2018
  • SMILF

    (A comedy about navigating life as a young single mom.)

    2017

Politics

Samara trapped into an online hoax in June 2016 because on social media a user posted her photo from the set where she was in makeup that looked bloody without knowing that she is an actress. That user claimed that the photo is of one of Donald Trump’s supporters and she got attacked by opposition people.

Views

Samara doesn’t have a long-term career plan, but she does have goals. She said: “I haven’t portrayed a real person before. I want to do things that challenge me and scare me, and that would be one of the most terrifying things you could do.”

Quotations: "I've had a passion to play Marilyn Monroe for a really long time. I'm a little too young at the moment, but it's on my bucket list."

"I've never gone through any proper training. They say Home and Away is a sort of training ground, and I think it's true, you do learn a lot from that show, but this was completely different."

"Bad Girl was my first ever feature film, and I'd just come off Home and Away. How refreshing it was to do something that someone had really poured their heart into."

"Because of the nature of our lifestyle, I had difficulty with shyness and making friends in new schools. Someone suggested to my parents, 'oh maybe she should try doing an acting class to bring her out of her shell.'"

"What I liked about acting was that freedom of when you're on a stage it's not you personally that's taking responsibility for a performance - you're playing a character."

"I remember at that age in high school, you did have these fierce relationships with other girls, and if they lied to you or if they hurt your feelings it felt like a betrayal."

"I really wanted to steer away from the stereotype of the annoying, bratty teenager. I wanted to make her mature and a bit more calculating so that the ending paid off and made sense."

"Because of the nature of this industry, it's a bit dangerous to think far ahead. So at the moment, I'm just taking it day by day."

Personality

Samara Weaving is an introvert and struggles with big group settings. She once said; “I am actually very happy reading my book at home.”

She also noted, "I can't confront anyone. I can't remember the last time I got mad at someone. It's way too scary, and I'm in such awe of people who can. It seems like such a nice thing to do. I'd just be filled with regret, like, immediately after." She went on, "I'd probably say the wrong thing, and I'm one of the people who stand in the shower after talking to an annoying person and goes 'Oh, I should've said that!'" The actress doesn't even want to drive a car, as she's so terrified about getting distracted and accidentally killing "like seven civilians."  

Physical Characteristics: Height: 165 cm (5’ 5” inches)

Weight: 53 kg (118 lbs)

Hair Color: Blonde

Eye Color: Blue

Body Type: Slim

Samara Weaving is often said to bear a resemblance to fellow Australian actress Margot Robbie.

She has seven tattoos, including a black cat on her wrist, a moon on her finger, and one on her elbow which reads: “It don’t take a whole day to recognize sunshine,” a line from The Light, a song by Chicago rapper Common.

Connections

Samara is in a relationship with Jimmy Warden, who is a creative producer. Weaving announced her engagement to Jimmy Warden on 10 March 2019.

Previously, Samara dated Axel Whitehead in 2012. They dated each other for a short time. Their relationship did not take long, so they separated in 2013. She also dated Rob Moore in 2013 and they separated in 2016.

Father:

Simon Weaving

Mother:

Helena Bezzina

Sister:

Morgan Weaving

Uncle:

Hugo Weaving

ex-boyfriend:

Axel Whitehead

aсquaintance:

Margot Robbie

fiance:

Jimmy Warden

colleague:

Daniel Radcliffe

colleague:

Woody Harrelson

colleague:

Natalie Dormer

References

• Samara Weaving Instagram photos and videos
• Samara Weaving - Twitter