Actress Rachel Weisz

Rachel Weisz
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An English film and theatre actress and fashion model. She started her acting career at Trinity Hall, Cambridge University, where she co-founded the theatrical group Cambridge Talking Tongues. The group was awarded the Student Drama Award for the improvised piece Slight Possession during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe by The Guardian. Weisz started working in television, appearing in Inspector Morse, the British miniseries The Scarlet and the Black, and the television movie Advocates II. She made her film debut in the 1994 film Death Machine, but her breakthrough role came in the 1996 movie Chain Reaction, leading to a high-profile role as Evelyn Carnahan-O'Connell in the films The Mummy, in 1999, and The Mummy Returns in 2001. Other notable films featuring Weisz are Enemy at the Gates, About a Boy, Constantine, The Fountain and The Constant Gardener, for which she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role. Weisz also worked on theatre. Her stage breakthrough was the 1994 revival of Noel Coward's play Design for Living, which earned her the London Critics Circle Award for the most promising newcomer. Weisz's performances also include the 1999 Donmar Warehouse production of Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer, and the 2006 revival of A Streetcar Named Desire. Her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in the latter play earned her the Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Actress of 2009.
Place of birth
Westminster, London, England, UK Westminster, London, England, UK
Date of birth
7th March 1970
Movies that starred Rachel Weisz (31 in total)
Black Widow poster

Black Widow [2021]

Melina Vostokoff
The Favourite poster

The Favourite [2018]

Sarah Churchill, Lady Marlborough
The Mercy poster

The Mercy [2018]

Clare Crowhurst
Disobedience poster

Disobedience [2017]

Ronit Krushka
My Cousin Rachel poster

My Cousin Rachel [2017]

Rachel
The Light Between Oceans poster

The Light Between Oceans [2016]

Hannah Roennfeldt
The Lobster poster

The Lobster [2015]

Short Sighted Woman
Oz the Great and Powerful poster

Oz the Great and Powerful [2013]

Evanora
The Bourne Legacy poster

The Bourne Legacy [2012]

Dr. Marta Shearing
Page Eight poster

Page Eight [2011]

Nancy Pierpan
The Lovely Bones poster

The Lovely Bones [2009]

Abigail Salmon
Agora poster

Agora [2009]

Hypatia
Definitely, Maybe poster

Definitely, Maybe [2008]

Summer Hartley
Fred Claus poster

Fred Claus [2007]

Wanda Blinkowski
Eragon poster

Eragon [2006]

Saphira (voice)
The Fountain poster

The Fountain [2006]

Queen Isabella / Izzi Creo
Constantine poster

Constantine [2005]

Angela Dodson / Isabel Dodson
The Constant Gardener poster

The Constant Gardener [2005]

Tessa Quayle
Envy poster

Envy [2004]

Debbie Dingman
Runaway Jury poster

Runaway Jury [2003]

Marlee
The Shape of Things poster

The Shape of Things [2003]

Evelyn Ann Thompson
Confidence poster

Confidence [2003]

Lily
About a Boy poster

About a Boy [2002]

Rachel
The Mummy Returns poster

The Mummy Returns [2001]

Evelyn Carnahan / Nefertiri
Enemy at the Gates poster

Enemy at the Gates [2001]

Tania Chernova
The Mummy poster

The Mummy [1999]

Evelyn Carnahan
Sunshine poster

Sunshine [1999]

Greta
Swept from the Sea poster

Swept from the Sea [1998]

Amy Foster
Chain Reaction poster

Chain Reaction [1996]

Dr. Lily Sinclair
Stealing Beauty poster

Stealing Beauty [1996]

Miranda Fox
Death Machine poster

Death Machine [1995]

Junior Executive
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