RACHEL GRIFFITHS

Rachel Griffiths plays Sarah Walker Whedon, eldest sibling, mother and executive vice-president of the Walker family company.

An Australian actress, Griffiths is perhaps most widely known for her role as Brenda Chenowith on the HBO series, “Six Feet Under.” The role garnered her two Emmy nominations and a Golden Globe win. Griffiths’ breakthrough role, as the brilliantly crafted Rhonda in “Muriel’s Wedding,” won her both the Australian Film Critics Award and the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Supporting Actress.

In 1997, she starred in My Best Friend’s Wedding and the British film, My Son the Fanatic, in which she adeptly mimicked a Yorkshire accent to play a prostitute who has an affair with an older Pakistani taxi driver.

A native of Melbourne, Griffiths graduated from Victoria College with a Bachelor of Education degree in drama and dance. She worked in the theatre in Melbourne with Australia’s acclaimed theatre company for young people, Wooly Jumpers Inc.