Rachel Weisz

Name: Rachel Weisz
Date of Birth: March 07, 1971
Place of Birth: London, England

Mini-bio: Her breakthrough role was that of Gilda in Welsh director Sean Mathias's 1995 West End revival of Noël Coward's 1933 play Design for Living at the Gielgud Theatre. Having already worked for television...( read more)

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Her breakthrough role was that of Gilda in Welsh director Sean Mathias's 1995 West End revival of Noël Coward's 1933 play Design for Living at the Gielgud Theatre. Having already worked for television, with strong parts in major UK series such as Inspector Morse (1993), Weisz started her cinema career in 1995 with Chain Reaction and then appeared Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty. She followed this work with more English films including Swept from the Sea, The Land Girls, and Michael Winterbottom's I Want You. Since then she has starred in a number of films including The Mummy (1999), Enemy at the Gates (2001), About a Boy (2002), Runaway Jury (2003) and Constantine (2005). Her stage work includes the role of Catherine in a London production of Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer and Evelyn in Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things at the Almeida Theatre (also film).

In 2005, Weisz starred in The Constant Gardener, a film adaptation of a John le Carré thriller of the same title set in the slums of Kibera and Loiyangalani, Kenya. For this role, Weisz won the 2006 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the 2006 Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress and the 2006 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role. In her home country, she was recognized as a leading role for the film according to the nomination from the BAFTA Film Awards and winnings from the London Critics Circle Film Awards and British Independent Film Awards.

In 2006, Weisz starred in The Fountain, written and directed by her partner, Darren Aronofsky. In the same year, she plans to star in a New York production of August Strindberg's Miss Julie, playing the titular role.

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Rachel Weisz Information:

Eye color: Hazel

Height: 5' '7" (1.70 m)

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Education: Graduated from St. Paul's Girls School, London in 1989. In 1993 graduated from Trinity Hall, Cambridge University, with a B.A. in English.

Family: George Weisz (father), Edith Weisz (mother), Minnie Weisz (sister), Darren Aronofsky (fiance), Henry Chance (son)

Resides in: divides her time between London and New York

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Charities/Causes: The X-Appeal (the official charity of the Royal College of Radiologists)

Other: Last name is pronounced "Vice."
Is of Hungarian (from her father's side) and Austrian (from mother's side) descent.
Is semi fluent in German.

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milestone21

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posted 8 days ago
neelvparmar

she was amazing in the first two mummy movie and it really sucks that she not in the third one. Evie not the same in the third movie so please come back one another movie like the mummy 5 ok? promise me?

posted 62 days ago
BillonDollarBitch

she was amazing in the first two mummy movie and it really sucks that she not in the third one. Evie not the same in the third movie

posted 90 days ago
mikefoot6

amazing in enemy at the gates and the Mummy films but where are you in the new one its not the same with out u

posted 103 days ago
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posted 108 days ago
ciarafan258

i wishes that u wuz in the third mummy

posted 113 days ago
karthu1993

She is pretty and entertaining.
Not fair she is not there in mummy three.

posted 113 days ago
madeiraleiria

I'll miss in the 3rd movie of THE MUMMY.
You are the true Evy.
Love your work:-)

posted 142 days ago
fathibrahim71

ciao rachel da tunisia

posted 208 days ago
starston85

Dear Rachel
I saw you in the movie "The Mummy" for the first time. I saw three movies of you: The mummy, Constanteen, and beautiful creatures. I can not forget you because you remind me a lady whom I met her when I was very young. I do not know how to decsribe it, but I feel deep emotion in my heart. I want to say that I like your movies and your skills. I wish you the best and sorry for my poor English.

posted 214 days ago