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Rachel Weisz

Rachel Weisz

Birthday: 1970-03-07 | Place of Birth: Westminster, London, England, UK

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2023
Dead Ringers

as    Elliot Mantle / Beverly Mantle

2021
Black Widow

as    Melina Vostokoff

2018
The Mercy

as    Clare Crowhurst

2018
The Favourite

as    Lady Sarah

2018
Disobedience

as    Ronit Krushka

2017
My Cousin Rachel

as    Rachel

2016
Complete Unknown

as    Alice Manning

2016
Denial

as    Deborah Lipstadt

2016
The Light Between Oceans

as    Hannah Roennfeldt

2016
The Lobster

as    Short Sighted Woman

2015
Youth

as    Lena Ballinger

2013
Oz the Great and Powerful

as    Evanora

2012
The Bourne Legacy

as    Dr. Marta Shearing

2012
The Deep Blue Sea

as    Hester Collyer

2012
360

as    Rose

2011
The Whistleblower

as    Kathryn Bolkovac

2011
Dream House

as    Libby Atenton

2011
Page Eight

as    Nancy Pierpan

2010
The Lovely Bones

as    Abigail Salmon

2009
Agora

as    Hypatia

2008
My Blueberry Nights

as    Sue Lynne

2008
Definitely, Maybe

as    Summer Hartley

2007
Fred Claus

as    Wanda Blinkowski

2006
The Fountain

as    Isabel / Izzi Creo

2006
Eragon

as    Saphira (voice)

2005
Constantine

as    Angela Dodson / Isabel Dodson

2005
The Constant Gardener

as    Tessa Quayle

2004
Envy

as    Debbie Dingman

2003
The Shape of Things

as    Evelyn Ann Thompson

2003
Confidence

as    Lily