Rachel Weisz
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- March 7, 1970
- Birthplace
- Westminster, London, England, UK
Rachel Hannah Weisz (/vaɪs/; born 7 March 1970) is a British actress. Known for her roles in independent films and blockbusters, she has received several awards, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild 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). 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), Definitely, Maybe (2008), 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Wendell Pierce, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
- A Special Relationship
A Special Relationship TBA
as Elizabeth Taylor
- Séance on a Wet Afternoon
Séance on a Wet Afternoon TBA
as Myra Savage, Producer
The Mummy: Book of the Dead 2027
as Evelyn O'Connell
Black Widow 2021
as Melina
Let's Dance 2018
as Segment: "Coffee to Go"
The Favourite 2018
as Lady Sarah
Disobedience 2018
as Ronit Krushka, Producer
The Mercy 2018
as Clare Crowhurst
My Cousin Rachel 2017
as Rachel
Denial 2016
as Deborah Lipstadt
Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible 2016
as Self
The Light Between Oceans 2016
as Hannah Roennfeldt
Complete Unknown 2016
as Alice Manning
The Lobster 2015
as Short Sighted Woman
Youth 2015
as Lena Ballinger
Radiator 2014
Executive Producer
Regina 2013
as Regina Jonas (voice)
Oz the Great and Powerful 2013
as Evanora
The Bourne Legacy 2012
as Dr. Marta Shearing
360 2012
as Rose
The Deep Blue Sea 2011
as Hester Collyer
Dream House 2011
as Libby Atenton
Page Eight 2011
as Nancy Pierpan
The Thief 2011
Director, Writer
The Whistleblower 2010
as Kathryn Bolkovac
The Lovely Bones 2009
as Abigail Salmon
The Brothers Bloom 2009
as Penelope Stamp
Agora 2009
as Hypatia
Unraveling the Legacy of the Mummy 2008
as Self
Definitely, Maybe 2008
as Summer Hartley
My Blueberry Nights 2007
as Sue Lynne
Fred Claus 2007
as Wanda Blinkowski
Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth 2007
as Herself
Eragon 2006
as Saphira (voice)
The Fountain 2006
as Isabel / Izzi Creo
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener 2006
as Self
The Constant Gardener 2005
as Tessa Quayle
Constantine 2005
as Angela Dodson / Isabel Dodson
Envy 2004
as Debbie Dingman
Runaway Jury 2003
as Marlee
The Shape of Things 2003
as Evelyn Ann Thompson, Producer
Confidence 2003
as Lily
About a Boy 2002
as Rachel
The Mummy Returns 2001
as Evelyn O'Connell / Nefertiri
Enemy at the Gates 2001
as Tania Chernova
Beautiful Creatures 2000
as Petula
Tube Tales 1999
as Angela (segment "Rosebud")
Building a Better Mummy 1999
as Self
Sunshine 1999
as Greta
The Mummy 1999
as Evelyn Carnahan
This Is Not an Exit: The Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis 1998
as Lauren Hynde
The Land Girls 1998
as Ag (Agapanthus)
My Summer With Des 1998
as Rosie
I Want You 1998
as Helen
Swept from the Sea 1998
as Amy Foster
Bent 1997
as Prostitute
Going All the Way 1997
as Marty Pilcher
Chain Reaction 1996
as Dr. Lily Sinclair
Stealing Beauty 1996
as Miranda Fox
Death Machine 1995
as Junior Executive
Dirtysomething 1994
as Becca
- Seventeen
Seventeen 1994
Actor
White Goods 1994
as Elaine
Credits from TMDB.