Rachel Weisz
Acting
Born: Mar 07, 1970
From: Westminster, London, England, UK
Credits: 30 titles
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 …
Filmography
| Title | Character | Year | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oz the Great and Powerful | Evanora | 2013 | 5.933 |
| The Bourne Legacy | Dr. Marta Shearing | 2012 | 6.243 |
| The Whistleblower | Kathryn Bolkovac | 2010 | 6.738 |
| The Lovely Bones | Abigail Salmon | 2009 | 7.06 |
| Agora | Hypatia | 2009 | 6.995 |
| The Brothers Bloom | Penelope Stamp | 2008 | 6.5 |
| Definitely, Maybe | Summer Hartley | 2008 | 6.937 |
| My Blueberry Nights | Sue Lynne | 2007 | 6.409 |
| Fred Claus | Wanda Blinkowski | 2007 | 5.856 |
| The Fountain | Isabel / Izzi Creo | 2006 | 6.908 |
| Eragon | Saphira (voice) | 2006 | 5.127 |
| Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener | Self | 2006 | 4.0 |
| Constantine | Angela Dodson / Isabel Dodson | 2005 | 7.122 |
| The Constant Gardener | Tessa Quayle | 2005 | 6.98 |
| Envy | Debbie Dingman | 2004 | 4.876 |
| Confidence | Lily | 2003 | 6.269 |
| The Shape of Things | Evelyn Ann Thompson | 2003 | 6.138 |
| Runaway Jury | Marlee | 2003 | 6.938 |
| About a Boy | Rachel | 2002 | 6.696 |
| Enemy at the Gates | Tania Chernova | 2001 | 7.416 |
| The Mummy Returns | Evelyn O'Connell / Nefertiri | 2001 | 6.397 |
| Beautiful Creatures | Petula | 2000 | 5.603 |
| The Mummy | Evelyn Carnahan | 1999 | 6.966 |
| Sunshine | Greta | 1999 | 6.47 |
| Swept from the Sea | Amy Foster | 1998 | 6.401 |
| I Want You | Helen | 1998 | 5.635 |
| The Land Girls | Ag (Agapanthus) | 1998 | 6.0 |
| Chain Reaction | Dr. Lily Sinclair | 1996 | 5.805 |
| Stealing Beauty | Miranda Fox | 1996 | 6.69 |
| Death Machine | Junior Executive | 1995 | 5.92 |
| Known for | Acting |
| Credits | 30 |
| Born | 1970 |
| From | Westminster, London, England, … |