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Who is Rachel Griffiths?

Rachel Griffiths was born on the 18th December 1968 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She is a Golden Globe winning and Academy Award and Emmy nominated film and television actress. She is best known for three roles, the first in the Australian smash hit movie Muriel's Wedding in 1994 and then for playing Brenda Chenworth in the top rating American television show, Six Feet Under. More recently she is known as Sarah Whedon, opposite Sally Field and Calista Flockhart in Brothers & Sisters. Rachel Griffiths and Toni Collette were relative unknowns when they were cast as best friends and fellow outcasts in the film Muriel's Wedding. Her performance won her critical acclaim and both the Australian Film Critics Award and the AFI award for Best Supporting Actress. She is a passionate in her anti "government sponsored" gambling stance, in 1997, she sparked a controversy after attending the opening of the Crown Casino topless and uninvited, her stated reasoning being the protest of the apparently one-sided views taken by the media and state government towards the new casino. Directors say she has a convincing range, as evidenced when she portrayed Johnny Depp's hysterical mother in 2001's Blow, opposite Ray Liotta.