
Rachel Weisz
Department: 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.
Known For

About a Boy
2002

Enemy at the Gates
2001

Constantine
2005

The Mummy
1999

The Fountain
2006

Death Machine
1995

The Mummy Returns
2001

Eragon
2006

Swept from the Sea
1998

The Constant Gardener
2005

My Blueberry Nights
2007

Envy
2004

Confidence
2003

Fred Claus
2007

The Shape of Things
2003

The Brothers Bloom
2008

Runaway Jury
2003

The Lovely Bones
2009

Definitely, Maybe
2008

Chain Reaction
1996

Agora
2009

Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
2006

I Want You
1998

Stealing Beauty
1996

Beautiful Creatures
2000

The Land Girls
1998

The Bourne Legacy
2012

The Whistleblower
2010

Sunshine
1999

Oz the Great and Powerful
2013

Dream House
2011

My Summer With Des
1998

The Deep Blue Sea
2011

Page Eight
2011

Séance on a Wet Afternoon
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360
2012

Going All the Way
1997

The Light Between Oceans
2016

The Lobster
2015

Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
2016

Regina
2013

Youth
2015

Dirtysomething
1994

This Is Not an Exit: The Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis
1998

Tube Tales
1999

Bent
1997

The Favourite
2018

Complete Unknown
2016

Denial
2016

The Mercy
2018

My Cousin Rachel
2017

Disobedience
2018

White Goods
1994

Let's Dance
2018

Black Widow
2021

Building A Better Mummy
1999

Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth
2007

Seventeen
1994

A Special Relationship
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Unraveling the Legacy of the Mummy
2008

The Mummy 4
2028

The Simpsons
1989

The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003

The Daily Show
1996

LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988

The View
1997

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992

Inspector Morse
1987

The Early Show
1999

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993

The Oscars
1953

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015

Scarlet and Black
1993

Dead Ringers
2023

Marvel Studios Assembled
2021

The Graham Norton Show
2007

The Advocates
1991

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014

What If...?
2021

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015

Vladimir
2026

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003

Screen Two
1985

Late Show with David Letterman
1993