Rachel Weisz

Rachel Weisz

Biography: Rachel Hannah Weisz (/vaɪs/; born 7 March 1970) is an English actress. Known for her roles in independent films and blockbusters, she has received several awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Laurence Olivier Award. Weisz began acting in stage and television productions in the early 1990s and made her film debut in Death Machine (1994). She won a Critics' Circle Theatre Award for her role in the 1994 revival of Noël Coward's play Design for Living. She went on to appear in the 1999 Donmar Warehouse production of Tennessee Williams' drama Suddenly Last Summer. Her film breakthrough came with her starring role as Evelyn Carnahan in the Hollywood action films The Mummy (1999) and The Mummy Returns(2001). Weisz went on to star in several films of the 2000s, including Enemy at the Gates (2001), About a Boy (2002), Runaway Jury (2003), Constantine (2005), The Fountain (2006), The Lovely Bones (2009) and The Whistleblower (2010). For her performance as an activist in the 2005 thriller The Constant Gardener, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. For playing Blanche DuBois in a 2009 revival of A Streetcar Named Desire, she won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress. In the 2010s, Weisz continued to star in big-budget films such as the action film The Bourne Legacy (2012) and the fantasy film Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) and achieved critical acclaim for her performances in the independent films The Deep Blue Sea (2011), Denial (2016), and The Favourite (2018). For her portrayal of Sarah Churchill in The Favourite, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and received a second Academy Award nomination. Weisz portrayed Melina Vostokoff in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Black Widow (2021) and starred as twin obstetricians in the thriller miniseries Dead Ringers (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Wendell Pierce, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Place of Birth: Not available

Birthday: March 07, 1970

Deathday: N/A

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Known For

About a Boy
About a Boy

2002-04-26

Enemy at the Gates
Enemy at the Gates

2001-02-28

The Mummy
The Mummy

1999-04-16

Constantine
Constantine

2005-02-08

The Fountain
The Fountain

2006-11-22

Death Machine
Death Machine

1995-05-02

The Mummy Returns
The Mummy Returns

2001-05-04

Eragon
Eragon

2006-12-14

Swept from the Sea
Swept from the Sea

1998-01-23

My Blueberry Nights
My Blueberry Nights

2007-11-28

The Constant Gardener
The Constant Gardener

2005-08-31

Envy
Envy

2004-04-30

Confidence
Confidence

2003-04-25

Fred Claus
Fred Claus

2007-11-09

The Shape of Things
The Shape of Things

2003-07-24

The Brothers Bloom
The Brothers Bloom

2008-09-09

Runaway Jury
Runaway Jury

2003-10-17

The Lovely Bones
The Lovely Bones

2009-12-26

Definitely, Maybe
Definitely, Maybe

2008-02-08

Chain Reaction
Chain Reaction

1996-08-02

Agora
Agora

2009-05-17

Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener

2006-01-10

I Want You
I Want You

1998-02-15

Being James Bond
Being James Bond

2021-08-29

Stealing Beauty
Stealing Beauty

1996-03-29

Beautiful Creatures
Beautiful Creatures

2000-08-23

The Land Girls
The Land Girls

1998-06-12

The Bourne Legacy
The Bourne Legacy

2012-08-08

The Whistleblower
The Whistleblower

2010-09-13

Sunshine
Sunshine

1999-09-13

Oz the Great and Powerful
Oz the Great and Powerful

2013-03-07

Dream House
Dream House

2011-09-29

My Summer With Des
My Summer With Des

1998-05-25

The Deep Blue Sea
The Deep Blue Sea

2011-09-11

Page Eight
Page Eight

2011-08-28

Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Seance on a Wet Afternoon

360
360

2012-07-25

Going All the Way
Going All the Way

1997-09-19

The Light Between Oceans
The Light Between Oceans

2016-09-02

The Lobster
The Lobster

2015-10-15

Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible

2016-09-20

Regina
Regina

2013-04-25

Youth
Youth

2015-05-20

Dirtysomething
Dirtysomething

1994-04-06

This Is Not an Exit: The Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis
This Is Not an Exit: The Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis

1998-08-23

Bent
Bent

1997-11-26

Tube Tales
Tube Tales

1999-11-19

The Favourite
The Favourite

2018-11-23

Complete Unknown
Complete Unknown

2016-08-26

Denial
Denial

2016-09-30

My Cousin Rachel
My Cousin Rachel

2017-06-08

The Mercy
The Mercy

2018-02-09

Disobedience
Disobedience

2018-04-24

White Goods
White Goods

1994-01-01

Let's Dance
Let's Dance

2018-12-06

Black Widow
Black Widow

2021-07-07

Building A Better Mummy
Building A Better Mummy

1999-09-28

Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth
Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth

2007-05-15

Seventeen
Seventeen

1994-01-01

A Special Relationship
A Special Relationship

Unraveling the Legacy of the Mummy
Unraveling the Legacy of the Mummy

2008-07-08

Thunderbolts*
Thunderbolts*

2025-04-30