hugoweaving.jpgHugo Wallace Weaving (born 4 April 1960) is an Australian film, stage and voice actor of English descent. He is best known for his roles in the films The Matrix, The Lord of the Rings, V for Vendetta, and Transformers Weaving was born in Nigeria to English parents Anne, a tour guide, and Wallace Weaving, a seismologist. He spent his childhood in South Africa and then moved to the United Kingdom in his teens. While in England he attended the independent boarding school Queen Elizabeth’s Hospital, commonly known in Bristol as QEH. He moved to Australia in 1976, where he attended another private school, Sydney’s Knox Grammar School. He later graduated from Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1981. More…