An attractive blond leading man of Australian films, Weaving scored an international hit as one of a trio of drag queens heading across the continent in "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" (1994). He made his film debut as a naive bumpkin who becomes caught up in a love triangle in the low-budget "The City's Edge" (1983), reportedly one of the first Australian films to focus on the plight of its native aborigines. Weaving followed with romantic roles as a dour tutor in "For Love Alone" (1985) and the title character, a bounder employed by a sickly titled Englishman, in the
