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Personal Info

Birth date

1970-03-07 (55 Years)

Gender

Female

Known for

Acting

Place of birth

Westminster, London, England, UK

Also known as

Rachel Hannah Weisz
레이첼 바이스
Ρέιτσελ Χάνα Βάις
レイチェル・ヴァイス
רייצל וייס
ریچل وایس
راشل وایس
蕾切尔·薇兹
蕾切尔·薇姿
瑞秋懷茲

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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Filmography

Acting

TBAVladimir as Unknown

TBAA Special Relationship as Elizabeth Taylor

TBASéance on a Wet Afternoon as Myra Savage

2023Dead Ringers (6 Episodes) as Elliot Mantle / Beverly Mantle

2021What If...? (1 Episode) as Melina (voice)

2021Black Widow as Melina

2021Marvel Studios Assembled (1 Episode) as Self

2018Let's Dance as Segment: "Coffee to Go"

2018The Favourite as Lady Sarah

2018Disobedience as Ronit Krushka

2018The Mercy as Clare Crowhurst

2017My Cousin Rachel as Rachel

2016Denial as Deborah Lipstadt

2016Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible as Self

2016The Light Between Oceans as Hannah Roennfeldt

2016Complete Unknown as Alice Manning

2015The Lobster as Short Sighted Woman

2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (1 Episode) as Unknown

2015Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter (1 Episode) as Self

2015Youth as Lena Ballinger

2014Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (1 Episode) as Self

2013Regina as Regina Jonas (voice)

2013Oz the Great and Powerful as Evanora

2012The Bourne Legacy as Dr. Marta Shearing

2012360 as Rose

2011The Deep Blue Sea as Hester Collyer

2011Dream House as Libby Atenton

2011Page Eight as Nancy Pierpan

2010The Whistleblower as Kathryn Bolkovac

2009The Lovely Bones as Abigail Salmon

2009Agora as Hypatia

2008The Brothers Bloom as Penelope Stamp

2008Unraveling the Legacy of the Mummy as Self

2008Definitely, Maybe as Summer Hartley

2007My Blueberry Nights as Sue Lynne

2007Fred Claus as Wanda Blinkowski

2007Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth as Herself

2007The Graham Norton Show (2, 1 Episode) as Self, Self - Guest

2006Eragon as Saphira (voice)

2006The Fountain as Isabel / Izzi Creo

2006Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener as Self

2005The Constant Gardener as Tessa Quayle

2005Constantine as Angela Dodson / Isabel Dodson

2004Envy as Debbie Dingman

2003The Ellen DeGeneres Show (1 Episode) as Self

2003The Shape of Things as Evelyn Ann Thompson

2003Confidence as Lily

2003Jimmy Kimmel Live! (1 Episode) as Self

2003Runaway Jury as Marlee

2002About a Boy as Rachel

2001The Mummy Returns as Evelyn O'Connell / Nefertiri

2001Enemy at the Gates as Tania Chernova

2000Beautiful Creatures as Petula

1999Tube Tales as Angela (segment "Rosebud")

1999The Early Show (1 Episode) as Self

1999Building A Better Mummy as Self

1999Sunshine as Greta

1999The Mummy as Evelyn Carnahan

1998This Is Not an Exit: The Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis as Lauren Hynde

1998The Land Girls as Ag (Agapanthus)

1998My Summer With Des as Rosie

1998I Want You as Helen

1998Swept from the Sea as Amy Foster

1997Bent as Prostitute

1997Going All the Way as Marty Pilcher

1997The View (1 Episode) as Self

1996Chain Reaction as Dr. Lily Sinclair

1996The Daily Show (6 Episodes) as Self

1996Stealing Beauty as Miranda Fox

1995Death Machine as Junior Executive

1994Dirtysomething as Becca

1994White Goods as Elaine

1994Seventeen as Unknown

1993Scarlet and Black (3 Episodes) as Mathilde de la Mole

1993Late Night with Conan O'Brien (4 Episodes) as Self - Guest

1992The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (2 Episodes) as Unknown

1991The Advocates (3 Episodes) as Unknown

1989The Simpsons (1 Episode) as Dr. Thurston (voice)

1988LIVE with Kelly and Mark (1 Episode) as Unknown

1987Inspector Morse (1 Episode) as Arabella Baydon

1953The Oscars (1 Episode) as Self

Production

TBAVladimir ... Executive Producer

TBASéance on a Wet Afternoon ... Producer

2023Dead Ringers (6 Episodes) ... Executive Producer

2018Disobedience ... Producer

2014Radiator ... Executive Producer

2003The Shape of Things ... Producer

Directing

2011The Thief ... Director

Writing

2011The Thief ... Writer