Place of Birth: Westminster, London, England, UK
Rachel Weisz
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.
Movie | Cast | Year |
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About a Boy | Rachel | 2002 |
Enemy at the Gates | Tania Chernova | 2001 |
Constantine | Angela Dodson / Isabel Dodson | 2005 |
The Mummy | Evelyn Carnahan | 1999 |
The Fountain | Isabel / Izzi Creo | 2006 |
Death Machine | Junior Executive | 1995 |
The Mummy Returns | Evelyn O'Connell / Nefertiri | 2001 |
Eragon | Saphira (voice) | 2006 |
Swept from the Sea | Amy Foster | 1998 |
The Constant Gardener | Tessa Quayle | 2005 |
My Blueberry Nights | Sue Lynne | 2007 |
Envy | Debbie Dingman | 2004 |
Confidence | Lily | 2003 |
Fred Claus | Wanda Blinkowski | 2007 |
The Shape of Things | Evelyn Ann Thompson | 2003 |
The Brothers Bloom | Penelope Stamp | 2008 |
Runaway Jury | Marlee | 2003 |
The Lovely Bones | Abigail Salmon | 2009 |
Definitely, Maybe | Summer Hartley | 2008 |
Chain Reaction | Dr. Lily Sinclair | 1996 |
Agora | Hypatia | 2009 |
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener | Self | 2006 |
I Want You | Helen | 1998 |
Being James Bond | Self (archive footage) | 2021 |
Stealing Beauty | Miranda Fox | 1996 |
Beautiful Creatures | Petula | 2000 |
The Land Girls | Ag (Agapanthus) | 1998 |
The Bourne Legacy | Dr. Marta Shearing | 2012 |
The Whistleblower | Kathryn Bolkovac | 2010 |
Sunshine | Greta | 1999 |
Oz the Great and Powerful | Evanora | 2013 |
Dream House | Libby Atenton | 2011 |
My Summer With Des | Rosie | 1998 |
The Deep Blue Sea | Hester Collyer | 2011 |
Page Eight | Nancy Pierpan | 2011 |
Seance on a Wet Afternoon | Myra Savage | 1970 |
360 | Rose | 2012 |
Going All the Way | Marty Pilcher | 1997 |
The Light Between Oceans | Hannah Roennfeldt | 2016 |
The Lobster | Short Sighted Woman | 2015 |
Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible | Self | 2016 |
Regina | Regina Jonas (voice) | 2013 |
Youth | Lena Ballinger | 2015 |
Dirtysomething | Becca | 1994 |
This Is Not an Exit: The Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis | Lauren Hynde | 1998 |
Bent | Prostitute | 1997 |
Tube Tales | Angela (segment "Rosebud") | 1999 |
The Favourite | Lady Sarah | 2018 |
Complete Unknown | Alice Manning | 2016 |
Denial | Deborah Lipstadt | 2016 |
My Cousin Rachel | Rachel | 2017 |
The Mercy | Clare Crowhurst | 2018 |
Disobedience | Ronit Krushka | 2018 |
White Goods | Elaine | 1994 |
Let's Dance | Segment: "Coffee to Go" | 2018 |
Black Widow | Melina | 2021 |
Building A Better Mummy | Self | 1999 |
Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth | Herself | 2007 |
Seventeen | 1994 | |
A Special Relationship | Elizabeth Taylor | 1970 |
Unraveling the Legacy of the Mummy | Self | 2008 |
Thunderbolts* | Melina | 2025 |
Series | Cast | Year |
The Simpsons | Dr. Thurston (voice) | 1989 |
The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Self | 2003 |
Jimmy Kimmel Live! | 2003 | |
The Daily Show | Self | 1996 |
LIVE with Kelly and Mark | 1988 | |
The View | Self | 1997 |
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | 1992 | |
Inspector Morse | Arabella Baydon | 1987 |
The Early Show | Self | 1999 |
Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self - Guest | 1993 |
The Oscars | Self | 1953 |
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | 2015 | |
Scarlet and Black | Mathilde de la Mole | 1993 |
Dead Ringers | Elliot Mantle / Beverly Mantle | 2023 |
Marvel Studios Assembled | Self | 2021 |
The Graham Norton Show | Self | 2007 |
The Advocates | 1991 | |
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors | Self | 2014 |
What If...? | Melina (voice) | 2021 |
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter | Self | 2015 |
The Graham Norton Show | Self - Guest | 2007 |