Samara Weaving Reflects on Releasing 3 Movies in 3 Months and Becoming a New Mom: ‘Still Processing It All’ (Exclusive)

Eric AnderssonFri, June 5, 2026 at 2:30 PM UTC

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Samara Weaving on Sept. 6, 2025Credit: Ben Trivett/Shutterstock -

Australian actress Samara Weaving has had her busiest year yet — since March, she has released three movies and welcomed a baby with husband Jimmy Warden

She tells PEOPLE she's "still processing it all," but it's a "wonderful" time

Weaving also talks about her rise from starring on TV shows in Australia to costarring with Kyle Gallner and Kyra Sedgwick in Carolina Caroline

Through the years Samara Weaving has acquired a few skills while preparing for various movies: She trained to sing opera for 2022's Chevalier and learned to drive a car for the first time for last year's Eenie Meanie.

But for her new crime drama Carolina Caroline, Weaving was unable to wrap her head around her con artist character's quick-change scam, a sleight of hand used to confuse cashiers and walk away with their cash. "I have no clue how it works. I tried so hard and then just had to give up. I couldn't," she says, adding with a smile, "I'm just not cut out for crime life."

Good thing her Hollywood career is thriving. Weaving's modern Bonnie and Clyde story, costarring Kyle Gallner and Kyra Sedgwick (out now), is the third movie she's released since March, following the horror sequel hit Ready or Not 2: Here I Come and the dark comedy Over Your Dead Body.

Weaving, 34, says she's "grateful" for this thrilling time in her life, which also includes a personal high: She and her husband, writer-director Jimmy Warden, 37, recently welcomed their first baby, a girl. "I think I'm still processing it all," she says. "I mean, it's exciting. It's wonderful!"

Jimmy Warden and Samara Weaving on March 30, 2026Credit: Todd Williamson/JanuaryImages/Shutterstock

The Adelaide, Australia, native has been acting professionally since she was a teenager on the Down Under drama series Out of the Blue, but says she never imagined she'd one day have the life she's built in the U.S. "I think I was just lucky to be working at all. I remember the idea of L.A. seemed so big and scary and exciting. And just getting an audition was hard. Just getting an agent was hard," she says.

Her persistence paid off: Slowly but surely Weaving — the niece of The Matrix actor Hugo Weaving — built a reputation as a go-to supporting actress, landing roles in movies like 2017's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, an Oscar nominee for Best Picture.

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Samara Weaving and Kathryn Newton in 'Ready or Not 2: Here I Come'Credit: Pief Weyman/Searchlight Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection

Her roles in the 2017 thriller The Babysitter and the 2019 horror-comedy Ready or Not gave her cred as a leading lady (and scream queen). Her commitment was apparent to Carolina Caroline costar Gallner: "She was just ready to jump in with both feet, and we were able to run and gun and have a good time."

And yet self-doubt lingers. "I still have impostor syndrome," she admits. "It's not as bad as it once was. Years of not knowing when you're going to work again, and, 'Is someone going to call me back?' and 'Is someone going to hire me?' I don't know if that ever goes away. But I'm a lot better at just trusting the process and not stressing about it."

Samara Weaving in 'Carolina Caroline'Credit: Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.

As a new mom she has much more important things to focus on. She calls motherhood "weird," but in a good way. "You just discover something new every day, and you find out so much about yourself," says Weaving. "My heart is now on the outside of my body."

Down the road, she'd like to collaborate more with Warden. The two met while working on The Babysitter, and he wrote and directed last year's Borderline, in which Weaving starred alongside Ray Nicholson. "I'd love to do another project with him, and it would be so much fun and make it easy. Parenting things too!"

As for what else is next professionally? "I'm kind of just taking it one day at a time," she says. "If there's something I can't say no to, we'll figure it out. And if not, I've got a pretty good role of being a mom."

Carolina Caroline is now playing in theaters nationwide.

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