Rachel Weisz

Acting · Born 1970-03-07 in Westminster, London, England, UK

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…

Filmography

• Enemy at the Gates as Tania Chernova
• Constantine as Angela Dodson / Isabel Dodson
• The Mummy as Evelyn Carnahan
• The Constant Gardener as Tessa Quayle
• Runaway Jury as Marlee
• The Lovely Bones as Abigail Salmon
• Definitely, Maybe as Summer Hartley
• Agora as Hypatia
• The Light Between Oceans as Hannah Roennfeldt
• The Lobster as Short Sighted Woman

TV

• The Simpsons as Dr. Thurston (voice)
• Inspector Morse as Arabella Baydon
• What If...? as Melina (voice)
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
• The Daily Show as Self
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark
• The View as Self
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
• The Early Show as Self