Rachel Weisz
Born
March 7, 1970 (55 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Westminster, London, England, UK
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).
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Being James Bond
Self (archive footage)
2021
Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
Self
2016
The Light Between Oceans
Hannah Roennfeldt
2016
The Lobster
Short Sighted Woman
2015
Regina
Regina Jonas (voice)
2013
Oz the Great and Powerful
Evanora
2013
The Bourne Legacy
Dr. Marta Shearing
2012
360
Rose
2012
The Deep Blue Sea
Hester Collyer
2011
Dream House
Libby Atenton
2011
Page Eight
Nancy Pierpan
2011
The Whistleblower
Kathryn Bolkovac
2010
The Lovely Bones
Abigail Salmon
2009
Agora
Hypatia
2009
The Brothers Bloom
Penelope Stamp
2008
Definitely, Maybe
Summer Hartley
2008
My Blueberry Nights
Sue Lynne
2007
Fred Claus
Wanda Blinkowski
2007
Eragon
Saphira (voice)
2006
The Fountain
Isabel / Izzi Creo
2006
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
Self
2006
The Constant Gardener
Tessa Quayle
2005
Constantine
Angela Dodson / Isabel Dodson
2005
Envy
Debbie Dingman
2004
The Shape of Things
Evelyn Ann Thompson
2003
Confidence
Lily
2003
Runaway Jury
Marlee
2003
About a Boy
Rachel
2002
The Mummy Returns
Evelyn O'Connell / Nefertiri
2001
Enemy at the Gates
Tania Chernova
2001
Beautiful Creatures
Petula
2000
Sunshine
Greta
1999
The Mummy
Evelyn Carnahan
1999
The Land Girls
Ag (Agapanthus)
1998
My Summer With Des
Rosie
1998
I Want You
Helen
1998
Swept from the Sea
Amy Foster
1998
Going All the Way
Marty Pilcher
1997
Chain Reaction
Dr. Lily Sinclair
1996
Stealing Beauty
Miranda Fox
1996
Death Machine
Junior Executive
1995
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Myra Savage
Dead Ringers
Elliot Mantle / Beverly Mantle · (6 episodes)
2023
What If...?
Melina (voice) · (1 episode)
2021
Black Widow
Melina
2021
Marvel Studios Assembled
Self · (1 episode)
2021
Let's Dance
Segment: "Coffee to Go"
2018
The Favourite
Lady Sarah
2018
Disobedience
Ronit Krushka
2018
The Mercy
Clare Crowhurst
2018
My Cousin Rachel
Rachel
2017
Denial
Deborah Lipstadt
2016
Complete Unknown
Alice Manning
2016
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
(1 episode)
2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self · (1 episode)
2015
Youth
Lena Ballinger
2015
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self · (1 episode)
2014
Unraveling the Legacy of the Mummy
Self
2008
Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth
Herself
2007
The Graham Norton Show
Self · (2 episodes)
2007
The Graham Norton Show
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
2007
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self · (1 episode)
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self · (1 episode)
2003
Tube Tales
Angela (segment "Rosebud")
1999
The Early Show
Self · (1 episode)
1999
Building A Better Mummy
Self
1999
This Is Not an Exit: The Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis
Lauren Hynde
1998
Bent
Prostitute
1997
The View
Self · (1 episode)
1997
The Daily Show
Self · (6 episodes)
1996
Dirtysomething
Becca
1994
White Goods
Elaine
1994
Seventeen
1994
A Special Relationship
Elizabeth Taylor
Scarlet and Black
Mathilde de la Mole · (3 episodes)
1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest · (4 episodes)
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
(2 episodes)
1992
The Advocates
(3 episodes)
1991
The Simpsons
Dr. Thurston (voice) · (1 episode)
1989
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
(1 episode)
1988
Inspector Morse
Arabella Baydon · (1 episode)
1987
The Oscars
Self · (1 episode)
1953
Vladimir
(0 episode)