Birthday: June 4, 1968
Birth Place: Melbourne, Victoria

Biography: Rachel Griffiths is a film and television actress best known for her role as Brenda in HBO's popular and critically acclaimed Six Feet Under.   Although her name is Welsh, she is actually of Irish Catholic extraction, and has an uncle on her mother's side who is a Jesuit priest, and who officiated at her wedding.  

Griffiths was a relative newcomer when cast in the film Muriel's Wedding (1994) as the loyal friend Rhonda, and the success of this film furthered the careers of both Griffiths and her costar Toni Collette.  

She receiv...