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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
March 7, 1970
Place of Birth:
Westminster, London, England, UK
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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).
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Being James Bond | Self (archive footage) |
| 2021 | Black Widow | Melina |
| 2018 | The Favourite | Lady Sarah |
| 2018 | The Mercy | Clare Crowhurst |
| 2018 | Disobedience | Ronit Krushka |
| 2018 | Let's Dance | Segment: "Coffee to Go" |
| 2017 | My Cousin Rachel | Rachel |
| 2016 | The Light Between Oceans | Hannah Roennfeldt |
| 2016 | Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible | Self |
| 2016 | Complete Unknown | Alice Manning |
| 2016 | Denial | Deborah Lipstadt |
| 2015 | The Lobster | Short Sighted Woman |
| 2015 | Youth | Lena Ballinger |
| 2013 | Oz the Great and Powerful | Evanora |
| 2013 | Regina | Regina Jonas (voice) |
| 2012 | The Bourne Legacy | Dr. Marta Shearing |
| 2012 | 360 | Rose |
| 2011 | Dream House | Libby Atenton |
| 2011 | The Deep Blue Sea | Hester Collyer |
| 2011 | Page Eight | Nancy Pierpan |
| 2010 | The Whistleblower | Kathryn Bolkovac |
| 2009 | The Lovely Bones | Abigail Salmon |
| 2009 | Agora | Hypatia |
| 2008 | The Brothers Bloom | Penelope Stamp |
| 2008 | Definitely, Maybe | Summer Hartley |
| 2008 | Unraveling the Legacy of the Mummy | Self |
| 2007 | My Blueberry Nights | Sue Lynne |
| 2007 | Fred Claus | Wanda Blinkowski |
| 2007 | Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth | Herself |
| 2006 | The Fountain | Isabel / Izzi Creo |
| 2006 | Eragon | Saphira (voice) |
| 2006 | Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener | Self |
| 2005 | Constantine | Angela Dodson / Isabel Dodson |
| 2005 | The Constant Gardener | Tessa Quayle |
| 2004 | Envy | Debbie Dingman |
| 2003 | Confidence | Lily |
| 2003 | The Shape of Things | Evelyn Ann Thompson |
| 2003 | Runaway Jury | Marlee |
| 2002 | About a Boy | Rachel |
| 2001 | Enemy at the Gates | Tania Chernova |
| 2001 | The Mummy Returns | Evelyn O'Connell / Nefertiri |
| 2000 | Beautiful Creatures | Petula |
| 1999 | The Mummy | Evelyn Carnahan |
| 1999 | Sunshine | Greta |
| 1999 | Tube Tales | Angela (segment "Rosebud") |
| 1999 | Building A Better Mummy | Self |
| 1998 | Swept from the Sea | Amy Foster |
| 1998 | I Want You | Helen |
| 1998 | The Land Girls | Ag (Agapanthus) |
| 1998 | My Summer With Des | Rosie |
| 1998 | This Is Not an Exit: The Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis | Lauren Hynde |
| 1997 | Going All the Way | Marty Pilcher |
| 1997 | Bent | Prostitute |
| 1996 | Chain Reaction | Dr. Lily Sinclair |
| 1996 | Stealing Beauty | Miranda Fox |
| 1995 | Death Machine | Junior Executive |
| 1994 | Dirtysomething | Becca |
| 1994 | White Goods | Elaine |
| 1994 | Seventeen | |
| Seance on a Wet Afternoon | Myra Savage | |
| A Special Relationship | Elizabeth Taylor |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Dead Ringers | Elliot Mantle / Beverly Mantle |
| 2021 | Marvel Studios Assembled | Self |
| 2021 | What If...? | Melina (voice) |
| 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | |
| 2015 | Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter | Self |
| 2014 | Variety Studio: Actors on Actors | Self |
| 2007 | The Graham Norton Show | Self |
| 2007 | The Graham Norton Show | Self - Guest |
| 2003 | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Self |
| 2003 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Self |
| 1999 | The Early Show | Self |
| 1997 | The View | Self |
| 1996 | The Daily Show | Self |
| 1993 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self - Guest |
| 1993 | Scarlet and Black | Mathilde de la Mole |
| 1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | |
| 1991 | The Advocates | |
| 1989 | The Simpsons | Dr. Thurston (voice) |
| 1988 | LIVE with Kelly and Mark | |
| 1987 | Inspector Morse | Arabella Baydon |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self |
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