Rachel Weisz

Not to be confused with Rachel Wyse.

Rachel Weisz
Weisz in 2018
Born
Rachel Hannah Weisz[1]

(1970-03-07) 7 March 1970 (age 54)
Westminster, London, England
Citizenship
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
Alma materTrinity Hall, Cambridge
Occupations
  • Actress
  • producer
Years active1992–present
Spouse
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(m. 2011)​
PartnerDarren Aronofsky (2001–2010)
Children2
RelativesMinnie Weisz (sister)
AwardsFull list

Rachel Hannah Weisz (/vaɪs/;[2] born 7 March 1970)[note 1] 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, a Peabody 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, and 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).[5] 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, and 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.[6] Weisz portrayed Melina Vostokoff in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Black Widow (2021) and starred as twin obstetricians in the Peabody Award-winning thriller miniseries Dead Ringers (2023).[7]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Rubinstein was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Landman, Kyle (5 August 2009). "Rachel Weisz Is Going to Start Correcting People on How to Pronounce Her Last Name". New York. Archived from the original on 21 October 2012. Retrieved 7 March 2011.
  3. ^ Bauer, Pat. "Rachel Weisz". Encyclopædia Britannica (Online ed.). Retrieved 27 January 2023.
  4. ^ "Rachel Weisz (1970-), Actress". National Portrait Gallery, London. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
  5. ^ "Weisz's breakthrough to acclaim". BBC News. 17 January 2006. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
  6. ^ "Rachel Weisz and Richard E Grant score Oscar nominations". Irish Examiner. Press Association. 22 January 2019. Archived from the original on 9 February 2019. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  7. ^ "Dead Ringers".


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