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Happy 35th birthday to actress Rachel Weisz. Weisz won this year's Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Tessa in The Constant Gardener, which also stars Ralph Fiennes. The British stage and screen actress had her breakthrough movie role in Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty (1996). She has also starred in Confidence with Dustin Hoffman and Edward Burns, and Runaway Jury with John Cusack.

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A British actress whose name and dark looks effortlessly conjure up associations with Eastern European exoticism, Rachel Weisz first earned the attention of an international audience with her role as the spoiled daughter of a sculptor in Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty (1996). The daughter of a Jewish-Hungarian inventor and an Austrian psychoanalyst (both sides of the family fled Fascist Europe during the '30s), Weisz was born in London on March 3, 1971. Much of her adolescence was spent modeling, and after attending Cambridge to study English, she broke into acting with a role in Sean Mathias' West End revival of Noel Coward's Design for Living.

Weisz's performance in the play won her the Critics' Circle Best Newcomer award, and she subsequently took advantage of this recognition with a starring role in the BBC's TV adaptation of Scarlet & Black (1993), and then in 1996 with her aforementioned part in Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty. Although most attention was paid to Liv Tyler in her role as the film's protagonist, Weisz managed to garner notice of her own, and this recognition was furthered by her top billing opposite Keanu Reeves in Chain Reaction that same year. Unfortunately, the big-budget thriller was an unmitigated turkey; Weisz followed it with leads in smaller films such as The Land Girls (1997), a WWII drama that cast her as a young socialite sent to work on a farm; and Going All the Way (1997), a post-war coming-of-age drama starring Ben Affleck and Jeremy Davies that saw Weisz play Wasp, Affleck's Jewish girlfriend.

After returning to Britain to star as a hairdresser in the noirish drama I Want You (1998), Weisz reappeared on the Hollywood radar as Brendan Fraser's damsel in distress in the 1999 summer blockbuster The Mummy. That same year, she played yet another love interest, that of a womanizing Ralph Fiennes in Sunshine, István Szabó's epic drama about three generations of a family of Hungarian Jews. Weisz' subsequent turn in the period drama Enemy at the Gates (2000) saw her play the inamorata of yet another Fiennes brother, Joseph. As a Russian-American sniper caught between the affections of a Russian party official (Fiennes) and a legendary sniper (Jude Law), the actress again returned to the early part of the 20th century (this time the Battle of Stalingrad) and to the deep end of the Fiennes family gene pool.

Dutifully returning for The Mummy Returns a few short months later, that same year found the starlet gaining positive notice for her role in director Neil LaBute's biting stage drama The Shape of Things. Cast as a young art student whose latest "piece" is a strikingly original form of sculpture, Weisz's character would attempt to transform her boyfriend from schlub to stud to surprising effect. When the play was adapted to film in 2001, the team stuck together with Weisz and co-star Paul Rudd stepping before LaBute's all-seeing lens. For her role in the 2003 crime drama Confidence, Weisz would join a band of talented con artists in a daring bid to take a banker with ties to organized crime for all he's worth. Though the film may not have struck box-office gold, it did prove something of a sleeper and drew generally favorable reviews from critics. Confidence would be one of two films that found Weisz cast alongside screen legend Dustin Hoffman in 2003, the other being the courtroom thriller Runaway Jury. If her last few years had been slightly weighed down in drama, audiences could be assured that things would lighten up considerably when Weisz joined the cast of the Barry Levinson comedy Envy (2004).

In 2005 she starred alongside Keanu Reeves again in the comic book adaptation Constantine. The dark film about a man trying to avoid his fate in hell by battling demons on Earth helped keep Weisz's name in circulation, but her next project would create the biggest buzz of her career thus far. Her role in Fernando Meirelles' The Constant Gardener garnered praise from critics and audiences alike, winning her an Oscar and a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Weisz played a British activist working in Kenya whose investigations into government corruption cause her to turn up dead, prompting her husband, Ralph Fiennes, to embark on an epic search to reveal the truth behind her murder. On the heels of this tremendous success, she joined the cast of Darren Aronofsky's psychological science-fiction film The Fountain-a story spanning a thousand years and exploring issues of love, death, and spirituality. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, Rovi
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Weisz at the 2010 TIFF premiere of The Whistleblower.
Born Rachel Hannah Weisz
(1970-03-07) 7 March 1970 (age 42)
Westminster, London, England
Alma mater Cambridge University
Occupation Actress, Fashion Model
Years active 1992–present
Spouse Daniel Craig (2011–present)
Partner Darren Aronofsky (2002–2010)
Children Henry Chance Aronofsky (b. 2006)

Rachel Hannah Weisz (play /ˈvaɪs/ / vice /;[1] born 7 March 1970[2]) is an English film and theatre actress and former fashion model. She started her acting career at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where she co-founded the theatrical group Cambridge Talking Tongues. The group was awarded the Student Drama Award for the improvised piece Slight Possession during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe by The Guardian.

Weisz started working in television, appearing in Inspector Morse, the British mini-series Scarlet and Black, and the television film Advocates II. She made her film début in the 1994 film Death Machine, but her breakthrough role came in the 1996 film Chain Reaction, leading to a high-profile role as Evelyn Carnahan-O'Connell in the films The Mummy, in 1999, and The Mummy Returns in 2001. Other notable films featuring Weisz are Enemy at the Gates, About a Boy, Constantine, The Fountain and The Constant Gardener, for which she received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors' Guild award for her supporting role as Tessa Quayle.

Weisz also works in theatre. Her stage breakthrough was the 1994 revival of Noël Coward's play Design for Living, which earned her the London Critics Circle Award for the most promising newcomer. Weisz's performances also include the 1999 Donmar Warehouse production of Tennessee Williams" Suddenly Last Summer, and their 2009 revival of A Streetcar Named Desire. Her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in the latter play earned her the Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Actress of 2009.

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Early life and background

Weisz was born in Westminster, London, and grew up in Hampstead Garden Suburb.[3] Her mother, Edith Ruth (née Teich), is a teacher turned psychotherapist from Austria.[4][5] Her father, George Weisz, was an inventor from Hungary.[6][7] Her parents moved to England during the Holocaust and Second World War. Her father is Jewish and her mother has Jewish, "Catholic Viennese", and Italian ancestry.[8][9] Weisz' maternal grandfather, Alexander Teich, was a secretary of the World Union of Jewish Students;[10][11][12] whilst one of Weisz' maternal great-grandmothers was Italian.[9] She has a sister, Minnie, who is a photographer and curator.[13]

Weisz's parents valued the arts, and encouraged her and her sister to form opinions of their own by introducing them to family debates. Her parents later divorced.[14] Weisz left North London Collegiate School and attended Benenden School for one year completing A-levels at St Paul's Girls School.[15] Weisz claimed that she was a bad student until an English Literature teacher inspired her at the age of sixteen.[16]

Weisz started modelling when she was fourteen.[17] In 1984, she gained public attention when she turned down an offer to star in King David, along with Richard Gere.[15]

After school, she entered Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where she graduated with a 2:1 in English. During her university years, she appeared in various student productions, co-founding a student drama group called Cambridge Talking Tongues.[18] It won a Guardian Student Drama Award at the 1991 Edinburgh Fringe Festival for an improvised piece called Slight Possession,[19] directed by David Farr. The group existed until 1993.[20]

Films

1992–1998

She appeared on the 1992 television film Advocates II, followed by roles in the Inspector Morse episode "Twilight of the Gods", and steamy period drama Scarlet and Black, alongside Ewan McGregor.[21]

A dark-haired woman signing autographs for fans. She is wearing a black blouse and shades. Behind her there is a fan.
Rachel Weisz signing an autograph during the press conference for The Brothers Bloom in 2008

Weisz started her film career with a minor role in the 1994 film Death Machine,[21] but her first major role came in the 1996 film Chain Reaction, which also starred Keanu Reeves and Morgan Freeman.[22] She next appeared as Miranda Fox in Stealing Beauty, directed by the Italian Academy Award-winner Bernardo Bertolucci.[23]

Following this, Weisz found roles in the 1997 American drama Swept from the Sea,[24] the 1998 television comedy-drama My Summer with Des, the Michael Winterbottom's crime movie I Want You,[25] and David Leland's The Land Girls, based on Angela Huth's book of the same name.[26]

1999–2003

In 1999 Weisz played Greta in the historical film Sunshine.[27] The same year, her international breakthrough came with the 1999 adventure film The Mummy, in which she played the female lead opposite Brendan Fraser. Her character was the English Egyptologist Evelyn Carnahan,[28] who undertook an expedition to the fictional ancient Egyptian city of Hamunaptra to discover an ancient book. Variety criticised the direction of the film, writing: "(the actors) have been directed to broad, undisciplined performances [...] Buffoonery hardly seems like Weisz's natural domain, as the actress strains for comic effects that she can't achieve".[29] She followed this up with the sequel The Mummy Returns in 2001, which grossed an estimated $433 million worldwide,[30] (equivalent to $568 million in 2012 dollars [31]) higher than the original's $260 million[32] (equal to $363 million in 2012 dollars [31]). In 2000 she portrayed Petula in the film Beautiful Creatures,[21] following this up with 2001's Enemy at the Gates,[33] and the 2002 comedy-drama About a Boy, with Hugh Grant, based on Nick Hornby's 1998 novel.[34] In 2003 she played Marlee in the adaptation of John Grisham's legal thriller novel The Runaway Jury, along with Dustin Hoffman, John Cusack and Gene Hackman;[35] as well as starring in the film adaptation of the romantic comedy-drama play The Shape of Things.[36]

2004–2009

In 2004, Weisz appeared in the comedy Envy, opposite Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Christopher Walken. The film failed at the box office.[37] Variety magazine opined that Weisz and co-star Amy Poehler "get fewer choice moments than they deserve."[38] Her next role was alongside Keanu Reeves in Constantine, based on the comic book Hellblazer.[39] Film Threat called her portrayal "effective at projecting scepticism and, eventually, dawning horror".[40]

Her next appearance, in 2005, was in Fernando Meirelles's The Constant Gardener,[41] a film adaptation of a John le Carré thriller set in the slums of Kibera and Loiyangalani, Kenya.[42][43] Weisz played an activist, Tessa Quayle, married to a British embassy official.[44] The film was critically acclaimed,[45] earning Weisz the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress,[46] the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress,[47] and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role.[48] UK newspaper The Guardian noted that the film "established her in the front rank of British actors",[49] while BBC wrote: "Weisz is exceptional: film star charisma coupled with raw emotion in a performance to fall in love with".[50]

A black haired woman smiling. She is wearing a white dress and a necklace with a blue pendant.
Weisz in 2007

In 2006, she starred in Darren Aronofsky's romantic drama The Fountain.[51] The San Francisco Chronicle found her portrayal of Queen Isabel "less convincing" than other roles.[52] That same year, she provided the voice for Saphira in the fantasy film Eragon;[53] and rejected an offer to star in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor due to script issues.[54][55] The part eventually went to Maria Bello.[56] Her subsequent films include the 2007 Wong Kar-wai drama My Blueberry Nights,[57] and Rian Johnson's 2008 caper film The Brothers Bloom, alongside Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo.[57] In 2009 she played the lead role of Hypatia of Alexandria in the historical drama film Agora, a Spanish production directed by Alejandro Amenábar.[58] The New York Times called her portrayal "adept", noting that she imparted "a sympathetic presence".[59]

2010–present

Weisz's latest film, The Whistleblower, debuted at the Toronto Film Festival in 2010. The film was based on the true story of human trafficking by employees of contractor DynCorp. During its première, the intense depiction of the treatment meted out to victims by the kidnappers made a woman in the audience faint.[60] Variety magazine wrote "Weisz's performance holds the viewer every step of the way.".[61] That same year, she guest-starred in the animated series The Simpsons, in the 22nd season episode "How Munched is That Birdie in the Window?".[62][63] Weisz's 2011 roles included an adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play The Deep Blue Sea[64] and the thriller film Dream House, alongside Daniel Craig.[65] She will appear in To the Wonder, an upcoming romantic drama written and directed by Terrence Malick, alongside Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, Javier Bardem and Rachel McAdams.[66][67] As of February 2011, other upcoming movies include BBC's espionage thriller Page 8,[68] and Fernando Meirelles' psychosexual drama 360.[69] She is in talks with Walt Disney Pictures to play Evanora in Oz: The Great and Powerful.[70]

Theatre

On stage, Weisz's breakthrough role was that of Gilda in Sean Mathias's 1994 revival of Noël Coward's Design for Living at the Gielgud Theatre,[71][72] for which she received the London Critics' Circle Award for the most promising newcomer.[73][74] Her portrayal was described as "wonderful" by a contemporary review.[75] In 1999, she played the role of Catherine in the Donmar Warehouse production of Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer,[72] What's on Stage called her "captivating", stating that she brought "a degree of credibility to a difficult part".[76] The same year, Weisz appeared in Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things at the Almeida Theatre, then temporarily located in London's Kings Cross.[77] CurtainUp called her "a sophisticated, independent artist" with "great stage presence".[78] In 2009, she appeared Blanche DuBois, in Rob Ashford's revival of the play A Streetcar Named Desire.[79] Her performance in the play was praised by the critics, the Daily Telegraph noted that she "rises to the challenge magnificently".[80]

Awards and honours

Film

Weisz gained honours for her work in The Constant Gardener, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture. She was also nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.[81] Furthermore, the role also led to her receiving the London Critics' Circle Film Award for British Actress of the Year, the British Independent Film Award for Best Actress,[82] and the San Diego Film Critics' Society Award for Best Supporting Actress. Additionally, she was nominated for the Online Film Critics' Society Award for Best Supporting Actress.[82] In 2006, Weisz was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences,[83] and was also honoured at the Los Angeles BAFTA ceremony with the Britannia Award for Artist of the Year.[84]

Theatre

In 1991 Weisz received the Student Drama Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, for her part in the play Slight Possession. In 1994 she was awarded with the London Critics' Circle Award for Most Promising Newcomer, for the play Design for Living. In January 2010, the Critics' Circle Theatre Awards in London named her Best Actress of 2009, for her performance as Blanche Dubois in the Donmar revival of A Streetcar Named Desire.[85] She also won the coveted 2010 Olivier Award for Best Actress for the same role.[86]

Personal life

Weisz began dating American filmmaker and producer Darren Aronofsky in the summer of 2001. They met backstage at London's Almeida Theatre, where she was starring in The Shape of Things. Weisz moved to New York with Aronofsky the following year;[77] in 2005, they were engaged.[87] Their son, Henry Chance, was born on 31 May 2006 in New York City.[88][89] The couple resided in the East Village in Manhattan. In November 2010, Weisz and Aronofsky announced that they had been apart for months, but remain close friends and are committed to bringing up their son together in New York.[90]

Weisz began dating actor Daniel Craig in December 2010[91] and they married on 22 June 2011[92][93] in a private New York ceremony, with only four guests in attendance, including Weisz's son and Craig's daughter.[94]

In 2009, Weisz expressed her views on Botox to Harper's Bazaar – "It should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?"[95]

Weisz is represented by Creative Artists Agency.[96] In 2001, she was involved in a traffic accident, while travelling in a cab that was hit by a lorry, Weisz was unharmed.[97] On 7 July 2007, she presented at the American leg of Live Earth, along with Alec Baldwin and Kevin Bacon.[98]

During her career, she has been featured on the covers of magazines such as Vogue[99] and Esquire.[100] She serves as a muse to fashion designer Narciso Rodriguez,[101] and was named L’Oréal's global ambassador in 2010.[102]

Weisz, a British citizen by birth, became a naturalized American citizen in 2011.[103]

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1995 Death Machine Junior Executive
1996 Chain Reaction Dr. Lily Sinclair
1996 Stealing Beauty Miranda Fox
1997 Bent Prostitute
1997 Going All the Way Marty Pilcher
1997 Swept from the Sea Amy Foster
1997 I Want You Helen
1998 My Summer with Des Rosie
1998 Land Girls, TheThe Land Girls Ag (Agapanthus)
1999 Mummy, TheThe Mummy Evelyn "Evie" Carnahan
1999 Sunshine Greta Nominated — Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
1999 Tube Tales Angela
2000 Beautiful Creatures Petula
2000 This Is Not an Exit: The Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis Lauren Hynde
2001 Enemy at the Gates Tania Chernova Nominated – European Film Award for Best Actress
2001 Mummy Returns, TheThe Mummy Returns Evelyn Carnahan-O'Connell
Princess Nefertiri
2002 About a Boy Rachel
2003 Confidence Lily
2003 Shape of Things, TheThe Shape of Things Evelyn Ann Thompson Also Producer
2003 Runaway Jury Marlee Weisz's character in Runaway Jury is also known as Gabrielle Brant.
2004 Envy Debbie Dingman
2005 Constantine Angela Dodson/Isabel Dodson Nominated — Teen Choice: Movie Scream Scene
2005 Constant Gardener, TheThe Constant Gardener Tessa Quayle Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
British Independent Film Award for Best Actress
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
Iowa Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress
London Film Critic's Circle Award for British Actress of the Year
San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress
Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
Utah Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
Nominated — Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated — Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated — Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress
2006 Fountain, TheThe Fountain Izzi/Isabella I of Castile
2006 Eragon Saphira (voice)
2007 Fred Claus Wanda
2007 My Blueberry Nights Sue Lynne
2008 Definitely, Maybe Summer Hartley
2009 Brothers Bloom, TheThe Brothers Bloom Penelope
2009 Lovely Bones, TheThe Lovely Bones Abigail Salmon
2009 Agora Hypatia Nominated — Goya Award for Best Actress
2010 Whistleblower, TheThe Whistleblower Kathryn Bolkovac Nominated — Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
2011 Page Eight Nancy Pierpan
2011 Dream House Libby Attenton
2011 Deep Blue Sea, TheThe Deep Blue Sea Hester Collyer Nominated — London Film Critic's Circle Award for British Actress of the Year
Nominated — Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actress
2012 The Bourne Legacy Stephanie Snyder Post-production
2012 To the Wonder Dinah Post-production
2012 360 Rose Post-production
2013 Oz: The Great and Powerful Evanora Filming

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