Hugo Weaving
Birthday: 1960-04-04 | Place of Birth: Ibadan, NigeriaHugo Wallace Weaving (born 4 April 1960) is a British 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 (2005), and Red Skull in the movie 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. Weaving's awards for acting include a Satellite Award, MTV Movie Award and six Australian Film Institute Awards. Description above is from the Wikipedia article Hugo Weaving, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Dr. Bergman
as Glen Mathieson
as Police Minister
as Duke
as Narrator (voice)
as Dan Fisher
as Narrator
as David Melrose
as Hannah
as Thaddeus Valentine
as Mad Jack Lionel
as Sergeant Farrat
as Tom Doss
as Detective David Rae
as Self
as Senior Officer Matt Perry
as Tom Croft
as Johnno
as Haskell Moore / Tadeusz Kesselring / Bill Smoke / Nurse Noakes / Boardman Mephi / Old Georgie
as Himself
as Johann Schmidt / Red Skull
as Noah (voice)
as Vincent
as Inspector Francis Abberline
as Jack
as Noctus / Grimble (voice)
