Hugo Weaving
Hugo Wallace Weaving is an AustralianBritish film and stage actor. He is best known for his roles as Agent Smith in The Matrix trilogy and Elrond in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies, as well as the title role of V in V for Vendetta .
Hugo Wallace Weaving was born at the University of Lagos Teaching Hospital, Nigeria Protectorate, to English parents Anne , a tour guide and former teacher, and Wallace Weaving, a seismologist. His maternal grandmother was Belgian. A year after his birth, his family returned to England, living in Bedford and Brighton before moving to Melbourne and Sydney in Australia Johannesburg in South Africa and then returning to England again. While in England, he attended The Downs School, Wraxall, near Bristol, and Queen Elizabeths Hospital. His family moved back to Australia in 1976, where he attended Knox Grammar School in Sydney. He graduated from Sydneys National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1981.
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