Having it all

THE ACTRESS GETS REAL ABOUT FAMILY LIFE AND HER TIME IN HOLLYWOOD

-  Kylie Walters

Just over 30 years since she burst onto the screen to international acclaim playing Rhonda in quirky Aussie comedy Muriel's Wedding, Rachel Griffiths is still working as much as ever, having starred alongside everyone from Hollywood legend Sally Field to Aussie great Deborah Mailman. But looking back, the Melbourne-born actress still sometimes can't quite believe it's all real.

“The first big interview I ever did was with WHO,” she tells us. “It was before My Best Friend’s Wedding came out [in 1997] and we were talking about how I was making a movie with Julia Roberts, which was just crazy and not something I’d have ever imagined.”

After a decade in the US, starring in hit TV dramas like Six Feet Under and