Rachel Griffiths

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Rachel Griffiths (18 December 1967 - )

Griffiths, who was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, grew up in Melbourne. Her mother was an art consultant, and she has two older brothers.

At Victoria College, Rusden, she earned a Bachelor of Education degree in drama and dance.

An Australian Golden Globe- and SAG Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated, and Emmy Award-nominated film and television actress, she is known primarily for her roles in movies and television. Amongst her notable roles is portraying Brenda Chenowith in the TV series Six Feet Under (2001-2005) and Sarah Walker on the ABC prime-time drama Brothers and Sisters. (2006-present).

When asked by an interviewer for Madison (May-June 2000) if she was religious, she responded,

• Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense of morality—it's just a different morality than the loud voices of the Christian morality. . . . I can't tell you how many films I've turned down because there was an absence of morality. And I don't mean that from any sort of Judeo-Christian/Muslim point of view. I'm not saying they're wrong and can't be made. But, fundamentally, I'm such a humanist that I can't bear to make films that make us feel humanity is more dark than it is light.

Griffith is married to Australian artist Andrew Taylor, and their two children have dual US/Australian citizenship.

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