• Rachel Griffiths is an Oscar nominated Australian actress whose breakout role was as "Rhonda" in the comedy Muriels Wedding. She has since appeared the television programs Brothers and Sisters Hilary and Jackie and Six Feet Under.

  People Magazine reported on January 16, 2009, that Griffiths is expecting her third child.People: Rachel Griffiths Is Pregnant (January 16, 2009)

• 1. Full name: Rachel Anne Griffiths
  2. Born: February 20, 1968
  3. Birthplace: Newcastle, New South Wales
  4. Attended: Victoria College, Rusden
  5. Atheist
  6. December 2002: Married Australian artist Andrew Taylor
  7. Two children: Banjo Patrick and Adelaide Rose
  8. January 2009: Announced pregnancy with third child
  9. Oscar: 1 nomination
  10. Golden Globe: 2 nominations, 1 win

• Early Life

  • Griffiths has two older brothers and a mother, Anna Griffiths, an art consultant. She has not seen her father for years; he left her and her family when she was 11 years old. She attended the Star of the Sea Catholic Girls' College and learned ballet. She joined the theater group The Woolly Jumpers.

• Career

  Griffiths breakthrough role came in 1994 in Muriels Wedding. She then landed a lead roll in HBO's Six Feet Under which ran from 2001 to 2005. Griffiths has co-starred in ABC's Brothers and Sisters with Sally Field and Calista Flockhart since 2006.

• Personal Life

  Griffiths married Andrew Taylor an Australian artist on December 31, 2002. The wedding ceremony was preformed by her uncle, a Jesuit priest. She has a son, Banjo Patrick Taylor, born in November of 2003 and a daughter, Adelaide Rose Taylor, born in June of 2005.

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