Rachel Weisz

About her

Rachel Weisz was born on 7th March 1971, in London, England, to Edith, an Austrian psychoanalyst and George, a Hungarian inventor.

Rachel was a model when she was 14 and began acting during her studies at Cambridge University. While there, she formed a theater company named Talking Tongues, which won the Guardian Award, at the Edinburgh Festival, for its take on 'Neville Shouthall' 's "Washbag". Rachel went on to star on stage in the lauded Sean Mathias revival of Noel Coward's "Design For Living." It was a role that won her a vote for Most Promising Newcomer by the London Critics' Circle.

She has starred in many movies, including The Mummy (1999), Enemy at the Gates (2001), and Stealing Beauty (1996). Rachel can also be seen in the movies The Shape of Things (2003), About a Boy (2002), Constantine (2005), and The Constant Gardener (2005), for which she won an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Screen Actor's Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Her Profile

Birth Name:-Rachel Weisz Birth Date:-03/07/1971 Birthplace :-London, England Height:-'5.7' Nationality:-British Education:-University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, English

Family

Father:- George Weisz Hungarian; fled to England to escape Nazi persecution; divorced Weisz's mother c. 1986; remarried to a Hungarian psychiatrist

Mother:-Edith Weisz Austrian; fled to England to escape Nazi persecution; divorced from Weisz's father c. 1986

Sister: Minnie Weisz

Husband:-Darren Aronofsky Dating since 2001;and became engaged in June 2005 director; born February 12, 1969;living together since 2004;

Son: Henry Chance Aronofsky Born May 31, 2006 in New York City

Awards

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress 2005
for The Constant Gardener

Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress 2005
for The Constant Gardener

Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress 2005
for The Constant Gardenerener

Filimograpy of Rachel Weitz

Definitely, May Be

Fred Claus

My Blueberry Nights

Eragon

The Fountain

The Constant Gardener

aka Ewige Gärtner

Constantine

Envy

Runaway Jury

Confidence

The Shape of Things

About a Boy

The Mummy Returns

Enemy at the Gates

Beautiful Creatures

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

Tube Tales

Sunshine

The Mummy

My Summer with Des

I Want You

aka Beloved

The Land Girls

aka Trois Anglaises en campagne

Swept from the Sea

aka Amy Foster

Bent

Going All the Way

Chain Reaction

Stealing Beauty

Death Machine

White Goods

Seventeen

The Scarlet and the Black

Sweating Bullets

aka Tropical Heat

His Pal Joey

Inspector Morse

Twilight of the Gods

Dirtysomething