Rachel Weisz
Birthdate: Mar 7, 1970
Birthplace: Westminster, London, England, UK
Rachel Hannah Weisz was born on 7 March, 1970, in London, U.K., to Edith Ruth (Teich), a psychoanalyst, and George Weisz, an inventor. Her parents both came to England around 1938. Her father is a Hungarian Jewish immigrant, and her mother, from Vienna, was of Italian and Austrian Jewish heritage. Rachel has a sister, Minnie, a curator and photographer.
Rachel started modeling when she was 14, and began acting during her studies at Cambridge University. While there, she formed a theater company named "Talking Tongues", which won the Guardian Award, at the Edinburgh Festival, for its take on Neville Southall's "Washbag". Rachel went on to star on stage in the lauded Sean Mathias revival of Noël Coward's "Design For Living". It was a role that won her a vote for Most Promising Newcomer by the London Critics' Circle.
She has starred in many movies, including The Mummy (1999), Enemy at the Gates (2001) and Stealing Beauty (1996). Rachel can also be seen in the movies The Shape of Things (2003), About a Boy (2002), Constantine (2005) and The Constant Gardener (2005), for which she won an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Rachel has a son with her former partner, director Darren Aronofsky. In June 2011, she married "James Bond" actor Daniel Craig in a private ceremony in New York.
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Upcoming (1)
- 2025 | Thunderbolts*asMelina Vostokoff
Thunderbolts*
A group of supervillains are recruited to go on missions for the government.
Previous (46)
- 2021 | Black Widow
Black Widow
Natasha Romanoff confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises.
- 2020 | A Special Relationship
- 2020 | Seance on a Wet Afternoon
- 2019 | The Whistleblower
The Whistleblower
Following a fatal accident, a Chinese expatriate working for a mining company in Australia discovers that new technology developed by the company may be a health risk, and investigates a web of conspiracies in his search for the t...
- 2018 | The Mercy
- 2018 | The Mercy: 2018 Re-releaseasClare Crowhurst
The Mercy: 2018 Re-release
The incredible story of amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst and his solo attempt to circumnavigate the globe. The struggles he confronted on the journey while his family awaited his return is one of the most enduring mysteries of recent times.
- 2018 | The Favourite
The Favourite
In early 18th-century England, the status quo at the court is upset when a new servant arrives and endears herself to a frail Queen Anne.
- 2018 | DisobedienceasRonit Krushka
Disobedience
A woman returns to her Orthodox Jewish community that shunned her for her attraction to a female childhood friend. Once back, their passions reignite as they explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality.
- 2017 | Lanny
- 2017 | Love Child
- 2017 |
- 2017 | My Cousin Rachel
My Cousin Rachel
A young Englishman plots revenge against his late cousin's mysterious, beautiful wife, believing her responsible for his death. But his feelings become complicated as he finds himself falling under the beguiling spell of her charms.
- 2016 | Complete Unknown
- 2016 | Denial
- 2016 | The Light Between Oceans
- 2016 | The LobsterasShort Sighted Woman
The Lobster
In a dystopian near future, according to the laws of The City, single people are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in 45 days or they're transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
- 2015 | Regina: The First Woman Rabbi
- 2015 | The Lobsteras Short Sighted Woman
- 2013 | Regina
- 2013 | Oz the Great and Powerful
Oz the Great and Powerful
A frustrated circus magician from Kansas is transported to a magical land called Oz, where he will have to fulfill a prophecy to become the king, and release the land from the Wicked Witches using his great (but fake) powers.
- 2013 | Beautiful Creatures
Beautiful Creatures
Ethan Wate longs to escape his small southern town. He meets a mysterious new girl, Lena Duchannes. Together, they uncover dark secrets about their respective families, their history, and their town.
- 2012 | The Bourne Legacy
The Bourne Legacy
An expansion of the universe from Robert Ludlum's novels, centered on a new hero whose stakes have been triggered by the events of the previous three films.
- 2011 | 360
- 2011 | Dream House
- 2011 | The Deep Blue Sea
- 2009 | Agora
- 2009 | The Lovely Bones
- 2008 | Definitely, Maybe
- 2008 | The Brothers Bloom
- 2006 | The Fountain
- 2005 | Constantine
- 2005 | The Constant Gardeneras Tessa Quayle
- 2004 | Envy
- 2003 | Confidence
- 2003 | Runaway Jury
- 2003 | The Shape of Things
- 2001 | Enemy at the Gates
- 2001 | The Mummy Returns
- 2001 | Enemy at the GatesasTania Chernova
Enemy at the Gates
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad.
- 1999 | Sunshine
- 1999 | This Is Not an Exit: The Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis
- 1999 | The Mummy (1999)asEvelyn
The Mummy (1999)
At an archaeological dig in the ancient city of Hamunaptra, an American serving in the French Foreign Legion accidentally awakens a mummy who begins to wreak havoc as he searches for the reincarnation of his long-lost love.
- 1998 | I Want You
- 1998 | The Land Girls
- 1997 | Swept from the Sea
- 1996 | Chain Reaction
