Rachel Weisz Biography
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Rachel Weisz (surname pronounced "vice") (born
March 7, 1971) is an Academy Award-nominated British actress.
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Early
life
Weisz was born in London. Her father, George Weisz,
is a Hungarian-born Jewish inventor whose family fled to England in order to
escape from Nazi persecution. Her mother, Edith, is a Vienna-born Austrian
Catholic psychoanalyst and aspiring actress, who has Jewish and ¼ Italian
ancestry.
Weisz read English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. She
graduated with a 2:1— one mark off a First. During her college years she
appeared in various student productions, co-founding a student drama group
called Cambridge Talking Tongues, which went on to win a Guardian Student Drama
Award at the Edinburgh Festival for an improvised piece called Slight
Possession.
Film
career
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, Weisz
started her cinema career in 1996 with 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), About a Boy (2002), and Runaway
Jury (2003). Her stage work includes the role of Catherine in a London
production of Tenessee 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. Weisz won 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 for her performance in the
film. She has also been nominated for an Academy Award for her performance.
In 2006, Weisz will star in The Fountain, written
and directed by her fiancé, 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.
Awards
Year Award Film
2006 Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress The
Constant Gardener
2006 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding
Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role The Constant Gardener
Private
life
Weisz is engaged to the American film director
Darren Aronofsky. The two are expecting a child in Spring 2006.
Selected Filmography
Year Title Role Other notes
2005 The Fountain Izzi
2005 The Constant Gardener Tessa Quayle Academy
Award nomination - "Best Supporting Actress"
2005 Constantine Angela Dodson/Isabel Dodson
2004 Envy Debbie Dingman
2003 Runaway Jury Marlee
2003 The Shape of Things Evelyn Ann Thompson
2003 Confidence Lily
2002 About A Boy Rachel
2001 The Mummy Returns Evelyn Carnahan
O'Connell/Princess Nefertiri
2001 Enemy at the Gates Tania Chernova
2000 Sunshine Greta
1999 The Mummy Evelyn Carnahan
1998 Swept from the Sea Amy Foster
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