Rachel Weisz

Name: Rachel Weisz
Date of Birth: March 07, 1971
Place of Birth: London, England

Mini-bio: Her breakthrough role was that of Gilda in Welsh director Sean Mathias's 1995 West End revival of Noël Coward's 1933 play Design for Living at the Gielgud Theatre. Having already worked for television...( read more)

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Her breakthrough role was that of Gilda in Welsh director Sean Mathias's 1995 West End revival of Noël Coward's 1933 play Design for Living at the Gielgud Theatre. Having already worked for television, with strong parts in major UK series such as Inspector Morse (1993), Weisz started her cinema career in 1995 with Chain Reaction and then appeared Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty. She followed this work with more English films including Swept from the Sea, The Land Girls, and Michael Winterbottom's I Want You. Since then she has starred in a number of films including The Mummy (1999), Enemy at the Gates (2001), About a Boy (2002), Runaway Jury (2003) and Constantine (2005). Her stage work includes the role of Catherine in a London production of Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer and Evelyn in Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things at the Almeida Theatre (also film).

In 2005, Weisz starred in The Constant Gardener, a film adaptation of a John le Carré thriller of the same title set in the slums of Kibera and Loiyangalani, Kenya. For this role, Weisz won the 2006 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the 2006 Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress and the 2006 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role. In her home country, she was recognized as a leading role for the film according to the nomination from the BAFTA Film Awards and winnings from the London Critics Circle Film Awards and British Independent Film Awards.

In 2006, Weisz starred in The Fountain, written and directed by her partner, Darren Aronofsky. In the same year, she plans to star in a New York production of August Strindberg's Miss Julie, playing the titular role.

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Rachel Weisz Information:

Eye color: Hazel

Height: 5' '7" (1.70 m)

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Education: Graduated from St. Paul's Girls School, London in 1989. In 1993 graduated from Trinity Hall, Cambridge University, with a B.A. in English.

Family: George Weisz (father), Edith Weisz (mother), Minnie Weisz (sister), Darren Aronofsky (fiance), Henry Chance (son)

Resides in: divides her time between London and New York

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Charities/Causes: The X-Appeal (the official charity of the Royal College of Radiologists)

Other: Last name is pronounced "Vice."
Is of Hungarian (from her father's side) and Austrian (from mother's side) descent.
Is semi fluent in German.

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mekawyhaytech

hi mi love

posted 62 days ago
carismaticul

the best woman

posted 74 days ago
camalamusic

hello u are so geart i love u and some day i like 2 be like u

posted 90 days ago
jbpelican

Her role in The Mummy is what made me decide on "Evelyn" as my favorite name for girls.

posted 91 days ago
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posted 112 days ago
choimoi5

hyi is akash.

posted 179 days ago
astrug

hello dear Rachel

posted 198 days ago
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posted 218 days ago
Daughteroftwilight

u are the Face of Angel

u are the Women no1 in this world

I love u so much

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(Sweethear of the Rain)
Noora Bloom

posted 299 days ago
vampire08

jus wana say i love u.............!!!!!!!

posted 341 days ago