Rachel Weisz
Born: 1970-03-07 in Westminster, London, England, UK
Known For: Acting
Biography
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. She 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), 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. 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
2023
- Dead Ringers as Elliot Mantle / Beverly Mantle
2021
- What If...? as Melina (voice)
- Black Widow as Melina
- Marvel Studios Assembled as Self
2019
2018
- Disobedience as Ronit Krushka
- The Mercy as Clare Crowhurst
- The Favourite as Lady Sarah
- Let's Dance as Segment: "Coffee to Go"
2017
- My Cousin Rachel as Rachel
2016
- The Light Between Oceans as Hannah Roennfeldt
- Complete Unknown as Alice Manning
- Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible as Self
- Denial as Deborah Lipstadt
2015
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- The Lobster as Short Sighted Woman
- Youth as Lena Ballinger
2014
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- Radiator ... (Executive Producer)
2013
- Oz the Great and Powerful as Evanora
- Regina as Regina Jonas (voice)
2012
- The Bourne Legacy as Dr. Marta Shearing
- 360 as Rose
2011
- Page Eight as Nancy Pierpan
- The Deep Blue Sea as Hester Collyer
- The Thief ... (Director)
- Dream House as Libby Atenton
2010
- The Whistleblower as Kathryn Bolkovac
2009
- The Lovely Bones as Abigail Salmon
- Agora as Hypatia
2008
- Definitely, Maybe as Summer Hartley
- The Brothers Bloom as Penelope Stamp
- Unraveling the Legacy of the Mummy as Self
2007
- The Graham Norton Show as Self
- Fred Claus as Wanda Blinkowski
- My Blueberry Nights as Sue Lynne
- Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth as Herself
2006
- Eragon as Saphira (voice)
- The Fountain as Isabel / Izzi Creo
- Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener as Self
2005
- Constantine as Angela Dodson / Isabel Dodson
- The Constant Gardener as Tessa Quayle
2004
- Envy as Debbie Dingman
2003
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
- The Shape of Things as Evelyn Ann Thompson
- Runaway Jury as Marlee
- Confidence as Lily
2002
- About a Boy as Rachel
2001
- The Mummy Returns as Evelyn O'Connell / Nefertiri
- Enemy at the Gates as Tania Chernova
2000
- Beautiful Creatures as Petula
1999
- The Mummy as Evelyn Carnahan
- Sunshine as Greta
- Tube Tales as Angela (segment "Rosebud")
- Building A Better Mummy as Self
- The Early Show as Self
1998
- Swept from the Sea as Amy Foster
- I Want You as Helen
- My Summer With Des as Rosie
- The Land Girls as Ag (Agapanthus)
- This Is Not an Exit: The Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis as Lauren Hynde
1997
- The View as Self
- Bent as Prostitute
- Going All the Way as Marty Pilcher
1996
- The Daily Show as Self
- Stealing Beauty as Miranda Fox
- Chain Reaction as Dr. Lily Sinclair
1995
- Death Machine as Junior Executive
1994
- Seventeen
- Dirtysomething as Becca
- White Goods as Elaine
1993
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- Scarlet and Black as Mathilde de la Mole
1991
1989
- The Simpsons as Dr. Thurston (voice)
1987
- Inspector Morse as Arabella Baydon
1953
- The Oscars as Self