Actress Rachel Griffiths puts on a stylish display at Stakes Day in Melbourne

Actress Rachel Griffiths added some A-list glamour to Stakes Day on Saturday.

The Six Feet Under star turned heads in a loose-fitting frock as she entered the grounds at Melbourne’s Flemington Racecourse.

The 52-year-old accessorised with a small hat and held a white clutch in her hand, which matched her high heels.

Stepping out: Actress Rachel Griffiths added some A-list glamour to Stakes Day on Saturday

Other celebs at the races that day included Michelle Payne, best known for being the first and only female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup. 

In a recent column for Stellar Magazine, Rachel, who lived in USA for a decade before coming home, wrote that ‘American freedom is in tatters’. 

‘Over the past year, as I checked in with Australian friends in the US, I kept hearing the same thing: ‘I just want to come home… I’ve never felt more Australian.’

‘It wasn’t just the pandemic – it was the exhaustion of trying to make sense of that country, of living between truths and lies,’ she writes.

Style: The Six Feet Under star turned heads in a loose-fitting frock as she entered the grounds at Melbourne’s Flemington Racecourse

‘Then the murder of George Floyd crystallised for many – who have a home country to compare with – that ‘American freedom’ lay (like its flag) in tatters on the streets, and that it was a poor substitute for collective responsibility.’

Rachel, who has been back in Australia since 2012, added: ‘I was hungry to come home and tell our own Australian stories with humanity and vigour.

‘So I did, and the years since have been the most satisfying of my career. But the sense that a nation can so deeply lie to itself about what it actually is… came back with me’. 

Rachel has been busy with various acting roles since return to Australia.

In 2019, she starred in the ABC political drama series Total Control alongside Deborah Mailman and was also seen in Aftertaste on the ABC earlier this year.  

Fashion: The 52-year-old accessorised with a small hat and held a white clutch in her hand, which matched her high heels