Rachel Weisz
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Rachel is an English Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning, and BAFTA-nominated actress.
During her university years she appeared in various student productions.
Her breakthrough role was that of Gilda in Welsh, West End revival of Noël Coward's 1933 play Design for Living. Having already worked for television, with strong parts in major UK series such as Inspector Morse (1993), Weisz started her cinema career in 1995 with Chain Reaction and then appeared 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), Enemy at the Gates (2001), About a Boy (2002), Runaway Jury (2003) and Constantine (2005).
In 2005, Weisz starred in The Constant Gardener. For this role, Weisz won the 2006 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, 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..
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.
Public Name: Rachel Weisz
Birth Name: Rachel Weisz
Date of Birth: March 7, 1971
Place of Birth: London, England
Filmography
- The Brothers Bloom, 2008
- The Lady from Shanghai, 2008
- The Colossus, 2007
- Definitely, Maybe, 2008
- Fred Claus, 2007
- My Blueberry Nights, 2007
- Eragon, 2006
- The Fountain, 2006
- The Constant Gardener, 2005
- Constantine, 2005
- Envy, 2004
- Runaway Jury, 2003
- Confidence, 2003
- The Shape of Things, 2003
- About a Boy, 2002
- The Mummy Returns, 2001
- Enemy at the Gates, 2001
- Beautiful Creatures, 2000
- This Is Not an Exit: The Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis, 2000
- Tube Tales, 1999 (TV)
- Sunshine, 1999
- The Mummy, 1999
- My Summer with Des, 1998 (TV)
- I Want You, 1998
- The Land Girls, 1998
- Swept from the Sea, 1997
- Bent, 1997
- Going All the Way, 1997
- Chain Reaction, 1996
- Stealing Beauty, 1996
- Death Machine, 1995
- Seventeen, 1994 (TV)
- White Goods, 1994 (TV)
- "The Scarlet and the Black", 1993 (mini) TV Series
- "Sweating Bullets", 1993 TV Episode
- "Inspector Morse", 1993 TV Episode
- Dirtysomething, 1993 (TV)
Awards
- Golden Globe Best Supporting Actress "The Constant Gardener" 2006
- Oscar Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role "The Constant Gardener" 2006
- Screen Actors Guild Outstanding performance by a female actor in a supporting role "The Constant Gardener" 2006
- London Critics' Circle Most Promising Newcomer "Design for Living" 1994
