Rachel Weisz

Known for ActingBorn 1970-03-07 (age 56)Westminster, London, England, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth

What If...?

The Simpsons

Inspector Morse

The Favourite

Enemy at the Gates

Marvel Studios Assembled

Black Widow

The Graham Norton Show

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

The Light Between Oceans

Vladimir

Constantine

The Lobster

The Lovely Bones

Agora

Disobedience

Youth

The Constant Gardener

Definitely, Maybe

Denial

Screen Two

Runaway Jury

The Fountain

The Mummy

White Goods

The Whistleblower

Regina

Bent

About a Boy

Page Eight

Stealing Beauty

The Brothers Bloom

Radiator

The Oscars

My Blueberry Nights

Seventeen

Sunshine

The Mummy Returns

Swept from the Sea

The Daily Show

Late Show with David Letterman

The Bourne Legacy

Dead Ringers

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Building A Better Mummy

The Early Show

Dream House