Biography Of Rachel Weisz

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, and 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).^[5] 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, and 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)

Weisz became involved in theater as a student at the University of Cambridge. She began making guest appearances on such television shows as Scarlet and Black in the early 1990s, but she first won notice for her 1994 performance as Gilda in a West End revival of Noël Coward’s Design for Living. Weisz made her film debut in a small role in the horror movie Death Machine (1994), and she gained critical attention for her appearance in Bernardo Bertolucci’s Stealing Beauty (1996). She became better known to American audiences with her role in the summer blockbuster The Mummy (1999) and its sequel The Mummy Returns (2001). Weisz also remained active in London theater, winning praise for her performances in Tennessee Williams’s Suddenly Last Summer (1999) and in Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things (2001).The Constant GardenerRachel Weisz and Ralph Fiennes in The Constant Gardener (2005), directed by Fernando Meirelles.

Weisz’s other films include the crime comedy Beautiful Creatures (2000), the war picture Enemy at the Gates (2001), About a Boy (2002; based on a novel by Nick Hornby), and the suspense film Runaway Jury (2003). In The Constant Gardener, which was based on a novel by John le Carré, Weisz’s character is murdered at the beginning of the film, which follows efforts by her husband, played by Ralph Fiennes, to discover how she came to be killed; Weisz’s character appears primarily in flashbacks. Her performance was widely praised, and she was honored with the 2006 BAFTA Britannia Award for British artist of the year.