Acting
Rachel Weisz
EN, XX, FR, IT cinema · 63 credits
Born
7 March 1970 (age 56)
Birthplace
Westminster, London, England, UK
Also known as Rachel Hannah Weisz · Rachel Weisz Craig
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.
Known for
Filmography
Séance on a Wet Afternoon
Séance on a Wet Afternoon
as Myra Savage, Producer
A Special Relationship
A Special Relationship
as Elizabeth Taylor
The Mummy: Book of the Dead
as Evelyn O'Connell
Black Widow
as Melina
The Favourite
as Lady Sarah
The Mercy
as Clare Crowhurst
Disobedience
as Ronit Krushka, Producer
Let's Dance
as Segment: "Coffee to Go"
My Cousin Rachel
as Rachel
The Light Between Oceans
as Hannah Roennfeldt
Complete Unknown
as Alice Manning
Denial
as Deborah Lipstadt
The Lobster
as Short Sighted Woman
Youth
as Lena Ballinger
Radiator
Executive Producer
Oz the Great and Powerful
as Evanora
Regina
as Regina Jonas (voice)
The Bourne Legacy
as Dr. Marta Shearing
360
as Rose
Dream House
as Libby Atenton
The Deep Blue Sea
as Hester Collyer
Page Eight
as Nancy Pierpan
The Thief
Director, Writer
The Whistleblower
as Kathryn Bolkovac
The Brothers Bloom
as Penelope Stamp
The Lovely Bones
as Abigail Salmon
Agora
as Hypatia
Definitely, Maybe
as Summer Hartley
My Blueberry Nights
as Sue Lynne
Fred Claus
as Wanda Blinkowski
The Fountain
as Isabel / Izzi Creo
Eragon
as Saphira (voice)
Constantine
as Angela Dodson / Isabel Dodson
The Constant Gardener
as Tessa Quayle
Envy
as Debbie Dingman
Confidence
as Lily
The Shape of Things
as Evelyn Ann Thompson, Producer
Runaway Jury
as Marlee
About a Boy
as Rachel
Enemy at the Gates
as Tania Chernova
The Mummy Returns
as Evelyn O'Connell / Nefertiri
Beautiful Creatures
as Petula
The Mummy
as Evelyn Carnahan
Sunshine
as Greta
Tube Tales
as Angela (segment "Rosebud")
Swept from the Sea
as Amy Foster
I Want You
as Helen
The Land Girls
as Ag (Agapanthus)
My Summer With Des
as Rosie
Going All the Way
as Marty Pilcher
Bent
as Prostitute
Chain Reaction
as Dr. Lily Sinclair
Stealing Beauty
as Miranda Fox
Death Machine
as Junior Executive
Dirtysomething
as Becca
White Goods
as Elaine