Known For
Acting
Born
Mar 07, 1970
Place of Birth
Westminster, London, England, UK
Credits
88 titles
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Wendell Pierce, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Untitled Mummy Sequel
Evelyn Carnahan
Vladimir
M
Dead Ringers
Elliot Mantle / Beverly Mantle
What If...?
Melina (voice)
Black Widow
Melina
Marvel Studios Assembled
Self
Let's Dance
Segment: "Coffee to Go"
The Favourite
Lady Sarah
Disobedience
Ronit Krushka
The Mercy
Clare Crowhurst
My Cousin Rachel
Rachel
Denial
Deborah Lipstadt
Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
Self
The Light Between Oceans
Hannah Roennfeldt
Complete Unknown
Alice Manning
The Lobster
Short Sighted Woman
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
Youth
Lena Ballinger
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
Radiator
Executive Producer
Regina
Regina Jonas (voice)
Oz the Great and Powerful
Evanora
The Bourne Legacy
Dr. Marta Shearing
360
Rose
The Deep Blue Sea
Hester Collyer
Dream House
Libby Atenton
Page Eight
Nancy Pierpan
The Thief
Director
The Whistleblower
Kathryn Bolkovac
The Lovely Bones
Abigail Salmon
Agora
Hypatia
The Brothers Bloom
Penelope Stamp
Unraveling the Legacy of the Mummy
Self
Definitely, Maybe
Summer Hartley
My Blueberry Nights
Sue Lynne
Fred Claus
Wanda Blinkowski
Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth
Herself
The Graham Norton Show
Self
Eragon
Saphira (voice)
The Fountain
Isabel / Izzi Creo
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
Self
The Constant Gardener
Tessa Quayle
Constantine
Angela Dodson / Isabel Dodson
Envy
Debbie Dingman
Runaway Jury
Marlee
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
The Shape of Things
Evelyn Ann Thompson
Confidence
Lily
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest