Hugo Weaving

Hugo Weaving is a stage, screen and voice actor born in 1960 in Nigeria to British parents who has lived in Australia since 1976 while keeping British citizenship. He trained at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney and became known internationally through the Australian films Proof and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, the second of which won him his first AACTA Award. His first major role was the cricket captain Douglas Jardine in the television series Bodyline. He is best known as Agent Smith in the first three Matrix films and as Elrond in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies, and he also played the title character in V for Vendetta and the Red Skull in Captain America: The First Avenger. His voice work includes Babe, Happy Feet and Megatron in the Transformers films, and he has won many AACTA Awards for film and television performances as well as awards for stage work.