By Anne Brodie Petite Australian actor Jacki Weaver, twice an Academy Award nominee, has performed on stage and screen in more than a thousand productions around the world. Weaver shot the endearing dramedy Stage Mother in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She plays a conservative Southern Baptist choir mistress who inherits her estranged but much-loved son’s drag bar. Once the shock wears off, she realises it’s the key to a new life. I spoke with Weaver about working here and her larger-than-life character.
Also, check out Weaver in Animal Kingdom 2010), the hardened leader of an organised crime family. She does it all!