Samara Weaving
Birthdate: Feb 23, 1992
Birthplace: Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Samara Weaving is a rising Australian-born actor-model who made her big-screen debut in Australian director/writer Ivan Sen’s crime movie Mystery Road (2013). Weaving starred or co-starred in a string of features made and released in mainly in Australia and/or New Zealand, including director/writer Fin Edquist’s Bad Girl (2016), director/writer Jason Lei Howden’s New Zealand-produced action comedy Guns Akimbo (2019) starring Daniel Radcliffe, a co-starring voice role in the animated Australian feature 100% Wolf (2020) and the sequel 200% Wolf (2024).
Weaving made supporting or co-starring appearances in American movies (most of which have been commercial duds) starting with the Paramount Pictures-Nickleodeon monster comedy, Monster Trucks (2016), the Joe Lynch-directed action movie Mayhem (2017) starring Steven Yeun; director/writer/producer Martin McDonagh’s Oscar-winning crime comedy, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), starring Frances McDormand (winning Best Actress), Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell (winning Best Supporting Actor), Abbie Cornish, John Hawkes and Peter Dinklage, grossing over $162 million for Fox Searchlight Pictures after premiering at the Venice Film Festival; co-directors-writers James and Colin Krisel’s neo-noir thriller for Liongate, Last Moment of Clarity (2020); the Orion Pictures-released sci-fi comedy starring Keanu Reeves and co-star/producer Alex Winter, Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020); Paramount Pictures’/MGM’s superhero commercial bomb Snakes Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins (2021) staring Henry Golding; and Searchlight Pictures’ biopic Chevalier (2022) co-starring Weaving and Kelvin Harrison Jr. Weaving landed a supporting role in another box-office bomb, director/writer Damien Chazelle’s silent movie-era epic, Babylon (2022), co-starring Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva, Jean Smart, Jovan Adepo and Li Jun Li, produced and released by Paramount Pictures to a disastrous $65 million global gross (based on estimated costs).
Samara Weaving was a new cast member of the sixth entry in the long-running slasher franchise, Scream VI (2023), with Melissa Barrera, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Jack Champion, Henry Czerny, Mason Gooding, and Courteney Cox, and delivered a strong $169 million box office for distributor Paramount Pictures (based on estimated costs). Weaving starred in the title role of the post-apocalyptic horror movie Azrael (2024), directed by E.L. Katz and written and produced by Simon Barrett, performed in Esperanto, premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival, and was released by IFC Films/Shudder.
Weaving co-starred with Ray Nicholson in director/writer Jimmy Warden’s comedy thriller, Borderline (2025), with Jimmy Fails, Alba Baptista and Eric Dane, and released to little business by Magnet Releasing, and then Weaving starred in the title role in the crime thriller, Carolina Caroline (2025), with Kyle Gallner, Kyra Sedgwick and Jon Gries under Adam Carter Rehmeier’s direction, launching at the Toronto Film Festival and released by Magnolia Pictures. Weaving took the lead again (as well as an executive producer credit) in the sequel, Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026), with Kathryn Newton, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Shawn Hatosy, David Cronenberg and Elijah Wood under the co-direction of Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett and released wide by Searchlight Pictures after premiering at the South by Southwest Film Festival.
Samara Weaving co-starred with Jason Segel in the comedy thriller, Over Your Dead Body (2026), the English-language remake of Tommy Wirkola’s original Norwegian movie The Trip (2021), with Paul Guilfoyle, Keith Jardine, Timothy Olyphant and Juliette Lewis under Jorma Taccone’s direction, launching at the South by Southwest Film Festival before a release by Independent Film Company (U.S.)/Amazon Prime Video (International).
Personal life
Samara Weaving was born in Adelaide, Australia, and raised in Adelaide, Singapore, Fiji, and Indonesia by her parents, Simon Weaving (filmmaker, cinema lecturer, Canberra Film Festival artistic director) and Helena Bezzina, who was born in Malta. Weaving has a younger sister, actor Morgan. Weaving’s uncle is acclaimed actor Hugo Weaving. Weaving attended and graduated from Canberra Girls Grammar School, where she was vice drama captain and a theater actor. Weaving has been married to director/writer/actor Jimmy Warden since 2019. Weaving’s height is 5’ 5”. Weaving’s estimated net worth is $4 million.
Known For
Guns Akimbo
(2019)
Mayhem
(2017)
Samara Weaving Movies
actor
Previous (17)
- 2026 |
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come
asGrace MacCaullay
After surviving one deadly game, Grace and her sister Faith must now outrun four rival families competing for a powerful throne - winner takes all.
- 2025 |
Borderline
asSofia
A bodyguard protects a pop superstar and her athlete boyfriend from a determined stalker in 1990s Los Angeles.
- 2024 |
- 2024 |
- 2023 |
- 2023 |
- 2022 | The Valet
- 2021 |
Snake Eyes
asScarlett
Snake Eyes, a tenacious loner, is welcomed into an ancient Japanese clan called the Arashikage, who teach him the ways of the ninja and provide him home. But when secrets from his past are revealed, his honor and allegiance will be tested.
- 2020 | Last Moment of Clarity
- 2020 | The Babysitter: Killer Queen
- 2020 |
Bill & Ted Face the Music
Once told they'd save the universe during a time-traveling adventure, two would-be rockers from San Dimas, California find themselves as middle-aged dads still trying to crank out a hit song and fulfill their destiny.
- 2019 | Guns Akimbo
- 2019 |
Ready or Not
asGrace
A bride's wedding night takes a sinister turn when her eccentric new in-laws force her to take part in a terrifying game.
- 2017 | Mayhem
- 2017 | The Babysitter
- 2017 |
Monster Trucks
asBrianne
A young man working at a small town junkyard discovers and befriends a creature which feeds on oil being sought by a fracking company.
- 2016 | Bad Girl
Facts About Samara Weaving
Married: Samara Weaving in 2017, met her director Jimmy Warden on the set of the horror movie, The Babysitter, and soon started dating him and then married him two years later. The couple announced in December 2025 that they were expecting their first child.
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