Rachel Weisz
Rachel Weisz was born in Westminster, England, United Kingdom on March 7th, 1970 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 54, Rachel Weisz biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Rachel Hannah Weisz (VYSE, born 7 March 1970) is a British-American actress.
She has received numerous awards, including an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award. Weisz began acting in British theatre and television in the early 1990s and made her film debut in Death Machine (1994).
She received a Critics' Circle Theatre Award for her role in Nol Coward's play Design for Living in 1994, and she went on to appear in Tennessee Williams' drama Suddenly, Last Summer, 1999.
Evelyn Carnahan, a female actor in the Hollywood action films The Mummy (1999) and The Mummy Returns (2001), she made her film debut.
Weisz appeared in several films of the 2000s, including Enemy at the Gates (2001), About a Boy (2002), Constantine (2006), The Fountain (2006), and The Lovely Bones (2009). She received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and Playing Blanche DuBois in a 2009 revival of A Streetcar Named Desire, winning the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress for playing a murder activist in the 2005 thriller The Constant Gardener.
Weisz continued to appear in big budget films such as the action film The Bourne Legacy (2012) and the fantasy film Oz the Great and Powerful (2013), and she received acclaim for her roles in the independent films The Deep Blue Sea (2011) and The Favourite (2018).
Weisz was nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role by the British Academy of Acting Sarah Churchill from 2005 to 2010 and was given another Academy Award nomination for her role as Rebecca Churchill.
She married actor Daniel Craig in 2011 and became a naturalized United States citizen the same year.
Early life and family
Rachel Hannah Weisz was born in Westminster, London, on March 7, 1970, or 1971, and she grew up in Hampstead Garden Suburb. George Weisz (1929-2020), a Hungarian Jewish mechanical engineer, was her father. Edith Ruth (born Teich, 1932–2016), a teacher-turned-psychotherapist originally from Vienna, Austria, was a mother and grandmother. Both her parents immigrated to the United Kingdom as children around 1938, shortly before World War II broke out in order to escape the Nazis. Her maternal grandfather's ancestry was Austrian Jewish; her maternal grandmother's ancestry was Italian Roman Catholic. James Parkes, a scholar and social activist, helped her mother's family migrate to England from Austria. On marrying Weisz's father, Weisz's mother was raised in the Catholic faith and officially converted to Judaism. Alexander Teich, a Jewish scholar who had been a secretary of the World Union of Jewish Students, was Weisz's maternal grandfather. Minnie Weisz, her younger sister, is a visual artist.
Weisz's parents adored the arts, but they also pushed their children to develop their own opinions by participating in family discussions. Weisz left North London Collegiate School and attended Benenden School for one year, completing A-levels at St Paul's Girls School.
Weisz began modelling at the age of 14. He was known as a "English rose." She gained notoriety in 1984 after turning down a bid to appear with Richard Gere in King David.
Weisz read English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where she studied English. She received her first-class honours from her graduation. She was a student drama group called Cambridge Talking Tongues during her undergraduate years. Sacha Baron Cohen, Alexander Armstrong, Emily Maitlis, Sue Perkins, Mel Giedroyc, Richard Osman, and Ben Miller were among her classmates, and she appeared in many student dramatic performances. Slight Possession, directed by David Farr, was a winner of the Guardian Student Drama Award at the 1991 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Personal life
Weisz began dating American filmmaker and producer Darren Aronofsky in the summer of 2001. They appeared on stage at Almeida Theatre in London, where she was first seen in The Shape of Things. Weisz and Aronofsky married in New York the following year; they were engaged in 2005. In May 2006 in New York City, their son was born. Both the couple lived in Manhattan's East Village. Weisz and Aronofsky's resignations had been absent for months, but they remained close friends and pledged to bring up their son together in New York in November 2010.
Weisz and actor Daniel Craig had been friends for many years and worked together on the film Dream House. They began dating in December 2010 and married in June 22nd in a private New York private event, including Weisz's son and Craig's daughter. On September 1, 2018, it was announced that they had their first child together, a daughter.
Weisz has been featured on magazines such as Vogue, throughout her career. In 2010, she was named L'Oréal's global ambassador after serving as a muse to fashion designer Narciso Rodriguez.
Weisz learned to karate for her role in Brothers Bloom.
Weisz, a British citizen by birth, became a naturalized American citizen in 2011.
Career
Weisz appeared in Advocates II on television, followed by appearances in Inspector Morse's "Twilight of the Gods" and BBC's steamy period drama Scarlet and Black with Ewan McGregor. Dirty Something, a BBC Screen Two hour-long television film made in 1992, was Weisz' first film, in which she played Becca, who met and fell in love with a traveller, Dog (Paul Reynolds), at the Glastonbury Festival. The festival's opening scenes were shot at the Festival. Larry (Bernard Hill), who appeared as both an older fellow traveller and sage, was also on the show.
Weisz's breakthrough role on stage came as a result of Noel Coward's Design for Living at the Gielgud Theatre, which garnered the London Critics Circle Award for the most promising newcomer. According to a new report, her appearance was described as "wonderful."
Weisz began her film career with a small appearance in the 1994 film Death Machine, but it was her first big role in the 1996 film Chain Reaction, which also stars Keanu Reeves and Morgan Freeman. Although the film received mainly critical feedback–it holds a 16% rating on Rotten Tomatoes–it was a minor financial success. Miranda Fox appeared in Stealing Beauty, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, where she was first identified as a "English rose" and later described as "English rose."
Weisz appeared in the 1997 American drama Swept From the Sea, Michael Winterbottom's crime film My Summer, and David Leland's The Land Girls, based on Angela Huth's book of the same name.
Weisz appeared in the historical film Sunshine in 1999. She made her international debut in 1999 with the film The Mummy, in which she appeared in the female lead opposite Brendan Fraser. Evelyn Carnahan, an English Egyptologist, undertook an expedition to Hamunaptra to find an ancient book. Variety wrote about the film's direction: "The actors" have been led to broad, undisciplined performances, [...] Buffoonery hardly seems to be Weisz's natural territory, as the actress strives for comedies she can't do" She stayed up with the sequel The Mummy Returns in 2001, which was worth $633 million (equivalent to $663 million in 2021 dollars) more than the original's $260 million (equivalent to $423 million in 2021 dollars).
Catherine appeared in Suddenly Last Summer, according to What's on Stage, she was "captivating" because she brought "a degree of credibility to a difficult role. Weisz appeared in Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things at the Almeida Theatre, then briefly located in London's King's Cross, for which she received a Theatre World Award. With "exciting, independent artist" and "strong stage presence," CurtainUp called her "a sophisticated, free artist."
Petula appeared in the film Beautiful Creatures in 2000, a sequel to Enemy at the Gates and Hugh Grant's 2002 comedy-drama About a Boy, based on Nick Hornby's 1998 book. She appeared in the film version of John Grisham's legal thriller thriller The Runaway Jury, along with Dustin Hoffman, John Cusack, and Gene Hackman, in 2003; and Gene Hackman appeared in The Shape of Things, a romantic comedy-drama drama.
Weisz appeared in the comedy Envy in 2004, starring Ben Stiller, Jack Black, and Christopher Walken. At the box office, the film was rejected. Weisz and co-star Amy Poehler "get fewer choice scenes than they deserve," a Variety magazine reported. Keanu Reeves, a comic book Hellblazer, was her next role in Constantine. "Productive at projecting skepticism and, eventually, dawning horror," she said on Film Threat.
In 2005, she was in Fernando Meirelles' The Constant Gardener, a film adaptation of a John le Carré thriller set in Kibera and Loyangalani, Kenya's slums. Tessa Quayle, a British Embassy official, married Tessa Quayle, a protester who married a British Embassy official, and Weisz played a protester. The film was critically acclaimed, winning Weisz Award for Best Supporting Actress, the Golden Globe Award for Outstanding Female Actor, and the Screen Actor Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role. The Guardian newspaper in the United Kingdom noted that the film "set her in the top five of British actors," while the BBC wrote: "Weisz is incredible: film star charisma combined with raw emotion in a performance to fall in love with." She was named BAFTA Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year in 2006.
Weisz appeared in Darren Aronofsky's romantic drama The Fountain in 2006. Queen Isabel's portrayal of her role was "less convincing" in the San Francisco Chronicle than in other roles, according to the newspaper. Saphira the dragon in the fantasy film Eragon that year; she turned down a bid to appear in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor due to script limitations. Maria Bello would have been the part of the role. Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo's follow-up films include Wong Kar-wai's 2007 drama My Blueberry Nights and Rian Johnson's 2008 caper film The Brothers Bloom, as well as Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo. In 2009, she appeared in the lead role of Hypatia of Alexandria in the Spanish film Agora, directed by Alejandro Amenábar. The New York Times dubbed her role "adept," noting that she gave "a sympathetic presence" throughout her career. Blanche DuBois appeared in Rob Ashford's revival of A Streetcar Named Desire the previous year. The critics lauded her role in the play, but the Daily Telegraph announced that she "rises to the challenge brilliantly."
In the film The Whistleblower, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2010, Weisz appeared in the film The Whistleblower. The film was based on a true tale of human trafficking by DynCorp workers. The intense depiction of the treatment meted out to victims by the abducters, who made a woman in the audience faint. "Weisz's appearance holds the viewer every step of the way," a Variety magazine said. In the 22nd season episode "How Munched is That Birdie in the Window," she appeared in the animated series The Simpsons. Weisz's 2011 appearances included an adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play The Deep Blue Sea, Fernando Meirelles' psychosexual drama 360 opposite Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins, the BBC espionage thriller Page Eight, and the thriller film Dream House starring Daniel Craig.
Terrence Malick, Olga Kurylenko, Javier Bardem, and Rachel McAdams shot scenes for To the Wonder, a 2012 romantic drama film written and directed by Terrence Malick, though her scenes were cut. She has also appeared in the 2012 action thriller film The Bourne Legacy, based on Robert Ludlum's collection of books.
Weisz appeared on Broadway with her husband, Daniel Craig, in a revival of Harold Pinter's Betrayal. It opened on October 27, 2013 and closed on January 5th, 2014. Despite mixed evaluations and box office receipts of $17.5 million, it became the second highest grossing Broadway performance of 2013. Weisz appeared in Evanora in the fantasy film Oz the Great and Powerful for the same year.
She appeared in the drama film Youth and in the science fiction film The Lobster in 2015. The film was nominated for the Cannes Jury Prize. Deborah Lipstadt was featured in the film The Light Between Oceans starring Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander in 2016, and she played Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt in Denial, a film based on Lipstadt's book directed by Mick Jackson, and she appeared in the drama film The Light Between Oceans. My Cousin Rachel, a drama based on Daphne du Maurier's book, was directed by James Marsh in 2017 and Weisz co-starred in a British biographical film about sailor Donald Crowhurst, The Mercy, directed by James Marsh.
LC6 Productions, Weisz' production company, released Disobedience, its first film to be released in 2017, starring Weisz and Rachel McAdams. Weisz grew up three underground stops from where the film is set in London. She was raised Jewish but never fully connected to the faith. She says she was "completely disobedient" herself and has never felt she belongs in a place.
Weisz performed Sarah Churchill in The Favourite in 2018, earning the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and receiving her second nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She began talks to join Scarlett Johansson in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Black Widow in April 2019. Weisz was announced in July of that year to play Melina Vostokoff in the film, which was released on July 2021.
A remake of the 1988 film of the same name for Amazon Prime Video will be produced by Weisz next year by both actor and executive. Although the film is still in production, she is expected to play actress Elizabeth Taylor in the biographical drama A Special Relationship. Taylor's life and work from actor to activist will be chronicled in the film. Bert and Bertie's script is expected to be directed by Bert and Bertie, and by See-Saw Films, with a script written by Simon Beaufoy. She is slated to appear in Love Child, directed by Todd Solondz, alongside Colin Farrell. She is also expected to appear in a new film adaptation of Seance based on Mark McShane's 1961 suspense novel and directed by Tomas Alfredson.