Rachel Weisz
58 movies · 10 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Mar 7, 1970 (age 56)
- Place of birth
- Westminster, London, England, UK
- Also known as
- Rachel Hannah Weisz · Rachel Weisz Craig
Biography
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).
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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).
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Known for
Rachel Weisz: movies and TV shows
Acting (66)
- Upcoming The Mummy 4
as Evelyn O'Connell
- Upcoming Séance on a Wet Afternoon
as Myra Savage
- Upcoming A Special Relationship
as Elizabeth Taylor
- 2026
- 2023
- 2021
- 2021 Black Widow
as Melina
- 2018 Let's Dance
as Segment: "Coffee to Go"
- 2018 The Favourite
as Lady Sarah
- 2018 Disobedience
as Ronit Krushka
- 2018 The Mercy
as Clare Crowhurst
- 2017 My Cousin Rachel
as Rachel
- 2016 Denial
as Deborah Lipstadt
- 2016 The Light Between Oceans
as Hannah Roennfeldt
- 2016 Complete Unknown
as Alice Manning
- 2015 The Lobster
as Short Sighted Woman
- 2015 Youth
as Lena Ballinger
- 2013 Regina
as Regina Jonas (voice)
- 2013 Oz the Great and Powerful
as Evanora
- 2012 The Bourne Legacy
as Dr. Marta Shearing
- 2012 360
as Rose
- 2011 The Deep Blue Sea
as Hester Collyer
- 2011 Dream House
as Libby Atenton
- 2011 Page Eight
as Nancy Pierpan
- 2010 The Whistleblower
as Kathryn Bolkovac
- 2009 The Lovely Bones
as Abigail Salmon
- 2009 The Brothers Bloom
as Penelope Stamp
- 2009 Agora
as Hypatia
- 2008 Definitely, Maybe
as Summer Hartley
- 2007 My Blueberry Nights
as Sue Lynne
- 2007 Fred Claus
as Wanda Blinkowski
- 2006 Eragon
as Saphira (voice)
- 2006 The Fountain
as Isabel / Izzi Creo
- 2005 The Constant Gardener
as Tessa Quayle
- 2005 Constantine
as Angela Dodson / Isabel Dodson
- 2004 Envy
as Debbie Dingman
- 2003 Runaway Jury
as Marlee
- 2003 The Shape of Things
as Evelyn Ann Thompson
- 2003 Confidence
as Lily
- 2002 About a Boy
as Rachel
- 2001 The Mummy Returns
as Evelyn O'Connell / Nefertiri
- 2001 Enemy at the Gates
as Tania Chernova
- 2000 Beautiful Creatures
as Petula
- 1999 Tube Tales
as Angela (segment "Rosebud")
- 1999 Sunshine
as Greta
- 1999 The Mummy
as Evelyn Carnahan
- 1998 This Is Not an Exit: The Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis
as Lauren Hynde
- 1998 The Land Girls
as Ag (Agapanthus)
- 1998 My Summer With Des
as Rosie
- 1998 I Want You
as Helen
- 1998 Swept from the Sea
as Amy Foster
- 1997 Bent
as Prostitute
- 1997 Going All the Way
as Marty Pilcher
- 1996 Chain Reaction
as Dr. Lily Sinclair
- 1996 Stealing Beauty
as Miranda Fox
- 1995 Death Machine
as Junior Executive
- 1994 Dirtysomething
as Becca
- 1994 White Goods
as Elaine
- 1994
- 1993
- 1993
- 1991
- 1991
- 1989
- 1987
- 1985
Behind the camera (7)
- Upcoming Séance on a Wet Afternoon
Producer
- 2026
- 2023
- 2018 Disobedience
Producer
- 2014 Radiator
Executive Producer
- 2011 The Thief
Director, Writer
- 2003 The Shape of Things
Producer
Talk shows and appearances (23)
- 2021 Marvel Studios Assembled
1 episode
- 2016
- 2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
4 episodes
- 2015 Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
1 episode
- 2014 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
1 episode
- 2008
- 2007
- 2007 The Graham Norton Show
2 episodes
- 2006
- 2004 Parkinson
1 episode
- 2003 The Ellen DeGeneres Show
1 episode
- 2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live!
3 episodes
- 1999 The Early Show
1 episode
- 1999
- 1997 The View
1 episode
- 1996 The Daily Show
5 episodes
- 1996 TFI Friday
1 episode
- 1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien
5 episodes
- 1993 Late Show with David Letterman
5 episodes
- 1992 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
2 episodes
- 1990 The Word
1 episode
- 1988 LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1 episode
- 1953 The Oscars
1 episode