Rachel Weisz

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Details

AKA: Rachel Hannah Weisz
Nationality: English
Birthdate: 03/07/1971
Birthplace: London, England, United Kingdom

biography

British stage and film actress Rachel Weisz stood out from the pack of emerging U.K. actresses in the 1990s with her exotic, decidedly un-British looks, as well as the fierce intelligence of a woman who had been on a fast track to academia before early stage success altered her path. Weisz founded an innovative comedy group at Cambridge, but her film career mainly centered on ambitious, independent dramas until Hollywood invited her into the fray with roles in several comedy and adventure blockbusters. Alternately cast as the deceptively smart sex bomb, the pensive outsider, and the fierce Continued

Credits

The Lovely Bones
Abigail Salmon
2010
The Brothers Bloom
Penelope
2009
My Blueberry Nights
Sue Lynne
2008
Definitely, Maybe
Summer Hartley
2008
The Fountain
Isabel/Izzi Creo
2006
The Constant Gardener
Tessa Quayle
2005
Constantine
Angela Dodson/Isabel Dodson
2005
Envy
Debbie Dingman
2004
Runaway Jury
Marlee
2003
The Shape of Things
Evelyn
2003
The Shape of Things
Producer
2003
Confidence
Lily
2003
About a Boy
Rachel
2002
The Mummy Returns
Nefertiri
2001
Enemy At the Gates
Tania
2001
Beautiful Creatures
Petula
2001
Sunshine
Greta Sors
2000
The Mummy
Evelyn
1999
Swept From the Sea
Amy Foster
1998
Going All the Way
Marty Pilcher
1997
Chain Reaction
Lily Sinclair
1996
Stealing Beauty
Miranda Fox
1996
This is Not an Exit: The Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis
Lauren Hynde
Agora
Hypatia
Scarlet and Black
Mathilde
The Land Girls
Ag
I Want You
Helen

milestones

Year
Milestone
1993 
Co-starred with Ewan McGregor in the BBC miniseries "Scarlet and Black"
1994 
Appeared with Rupert Everett in London production of Noel Coward's "Design for Living", directed by Sean Mathias
1996 
Feature debut in Bernardo Bertolucci's "Stealing Beauty"
1996 
First US feature "Chain Reaction" as Keanu Reeves' leading lady
1997 
Had first leading role in "Swept From the Sea"
Continued

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