FrameThrower · Actors · Hugo Weaving
Hugo Weaving
13 films · 975 frames · top-billed in 5 · 1994–2018
Born 4 April 1960 · Ibadan, British Nigeria
Hugo Wallace Weaving AO is an English actor. Born in Colonial Nigeria to English parents, he has resided in Australia for the entirety of his career. He is the recipient of six Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards (AACTA) and has also been recognised as an Honorary Officer of the Order of Australia.
Weaving landed his first major role as English cricket captain Douglas Jardine on the Australian television series Bodyline (1984). Continuing to act in Australia, he rose to prominence with his appearances in the films Proof (1991) and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994), winning his first AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role with the former.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 13 films · 975 frames · top-billed in 5 · 1994–2018
- Honorary Officer of the Order of Australia2020
- AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role2012
- AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role2005
- AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role1998
- AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role1991
- Sydney Theatre Awards
How their films are shot
Measured across 975 frames from the 13 films we hold. This is the look of the work Hugo takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 13 films we hold, 56% of their frames are night, 54% low key — the look of the work Hugo takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
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Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Black ’47
2018 · Hannah
Mortal Engines
2018 · Thaddeus Valentine
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
2010 · Noctus / Grimble (voice)
V for Vendetta
2006 · V / William Rookwood
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
1994 · Anthony 'Tick' Belrose / Mitzi Del Bra
Cloud Atlas
2012 · Haskell Moore / Tadeusz Kesselring / Bill Smoke / Nurse Noakes / Boardman Mephi / Old Georgie
Captain America: The First Avenger
2011 · Johann Schmidt / Red Skull
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2011 · Megatron (voice)
Transformers
2007 · Megatron (voice)
Happy Feet
2006 · Noah (voice)
The Matrix Reloaded
2003 · Agent Smith
The Matrix Revolutions
2003 · Agent Smith
The Matrix
1999 · Agent Smith
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 975 frames from Hugo Weaving's 13 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.