This Australian actress scored a big hit playing Rhonda, the ABBA-loving, party-hearty friend who helps Toni Collette break out of her shell, in P J Hogan’s 1994 comedy “Muriel’s Wedding”, for which she won an Australian Film Institute Award as Best Supporting Actress. The dark-haired, offbeat-looking Griffiths (who is often confused with Juliette Lewis and Amanda Plummer) has parlayed her success into an active career in leads and second leads in Australia as well as the USA, becoming a virtual workhorse in features.
Griffiths first won attention in 1991 when she devised and performed in the short film “Barbie Gets Hip”, which received festival screenings. She has also appeared on the Australian TV series “Secrets” (1993) as well as the comedy special “The Jimeon Show”. Between her film assignments, the actress has appeared frequently with the Melbourne Theatre Company, including productions of “The Grapes of Wrath”, “The Sisters Rosenzweig” and “Sylvia” before getting her breakthrough film role.
