Editing Hugo Weaving (section)

==Early life and education ==

Weaving was born on 4 April 1960 at the [[University College Hospital, Ibadan|University of Ibadan Teaching Hospital]], in [[Ibadan]], [[Colonial Nigeria|Nigeria]] to British parents; he is the son of Anne Lennard (born 1934),<ref name="abc">{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/rn/lifematters/stories/2009/2698446.htm|title=Meet the listener: Anne Lennard, wartime evacuee&nbsp;– ''Life Matters''|date=29 September 2009|publisher=ABC|location=Australia|access-date=8 August 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100122172125/http://www.abc.net.au/rn/lifematters/stories/2009/2698446.htm|archive-date=22 January 2010|url-status=live}}</ref> a tour guide and former teacher, and Wallace Weaving (born 1929), a [[seismologist]], who met as students at the [[University of Bristol]].<ref name=ref1 /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/artists/w/Hugo-Weaving/index-133496.html|title=Hugo Weaving Profile: Biography, Filmography & Photos|publisher=uk.movies.yahoo.com|access-date=8 August 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110624054221/http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/artists/w/Hugo-Weaving/index-133496.html|archive-date=24 June 2011}}</ref><ref name="abc"/> His maternal grandmother was Belgian.<ref name=abc /> A year after his birth, his family returned to the United Kingdom, living in [[Bedford]] and [[Brighton]] before moving to [[Melbourne]] and [[Sydney]] in Australia; [[Johannesburg]] in South Africa; and then returning to the United Kingdom again.<ref name=ref1>{{cite news|url=https://www.smh.com.au/news/film/quiet-achiever/2006/04/02/1143916400860.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|title=Quiet achiever|date=3 April 2006|access-date=12 March 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110623083823/http://www.smh.com.au/news/film/quiet-achiever/2006/04/02/1143916400860.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2|archive-date=23 June 2011|url-status=live}}</ref>

While in the UK, he attended [[Charlton House, Wraxall|The Downs School]], [[Wraxall, Somerset|Wraxall]], near [[Bristol]], and [[Queen Elizabeth's Hospital]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2004-03-05 |title=Weaving no red carpet spells |url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/weaving-no-red-carpet-spells-20040305-gdih6o.html |access-date=2022-11-11 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en |archive-date=11 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221111020356/https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/weaving-no-red-carpet-spells-20040305-gdih6o.html |url-status=live }}</ref> While at the Downs School, in 1973 Weaving played one of his first theatrical roles, taking the part of Captain Asquith in [[Robert Bolt]]'s ''The Thwarting of Baron Bolligrew''. His family moved back to Australia in 1976, where he attended [[Knox Grammar School]] in Sydney.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2007-08-30 |title=Schools In Sydney - NSW Schools - Private Schools Sydney - Find a School |url=http://www.schoolchoice.com.au/find_a_school?cid=12348&pid=2701612 |access-date=2022-11-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070830192913/http://www.schoolchoice.com.au/find_a_school?cid=12348&pid=2701612 |archive-date=30 August 2007 }}</ref> He graduated from Sydney's [[National Institute of Dramatic Art]] in 1981.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hugo at home (Hugo Weaving), 2011 |url=http://www.portrait.gov.au/portraits/2012.22/hugo-at-home-hugo-weaving/ |access-date=2022-11-11 |website=National Portrait Gallery collection |archive-date=11 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221111020404/https://www.portrait.gov.au//portraits/2012.22/hugo-at-home-hugo-weaving/ |url-status=live }}</ref>