Rachel Weisz
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.
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Movies (41)
Black Widow
as Melina
2021
The Favourite: Unstitching the Costume Drama
as Self
2019
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
2018
My Cousin Rachel
as Rachel
2017
Denial
as Deborah Lipstadt
2016
Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
as Self
2016
The Light Between Oceans
as Hannah Roennfeldt
2016
Complete Unknown
as Alice Manning
2016
The Lobster
as Short Sighted Woman
2015
Youth
as Lena Ballinger
2015
Radiator
Executive Producer (Production)
2014
Regina
as Regina Jonas (voice)
2013
Oz the Great and Powerful
as Evanora
2013
The Bourne Legacy
as Dr. Marta Shearing
2012
360
as Rose
2012
The Deep Blue Sea
as Hester Collyer
2011
Dream House
as Libby Atenton
2011
Page Eight
as Nancy Pierpan
2011
The Thief
Director (Directing)
2011
The Whistleblower
as Kathryn Bolkovac
2010
The Lovely Bones
as Abigail Salmon
2009
Agora
as Hypatia
2009
The Brothers Bloom
as Penelope Stamp
2008
Unraveling the Legacy of the Mummy
as Self
2008
Definitely, Maybe
as Summer Hartley
2008
My Blueberry Nights
as Sue Lynne
2007
Fred Claus
as Wanda Blinkowski
2007
Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth
as Herself
2007
Eragon
as Saphira (voice)
2006
The Fountain
as Isabel / Izzi Creo
2006
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
as Self
2006
The Constant Gardener
as Tessa Quayle
2005
Constantine
as Angela Dodson / Isabel Dodson
2005
Envy
as Debbie Dingman
2004
The Shape of Things
as Evelyn Ann Thompson
2003
Confidence
as Lily
2003
Runaway Jury
as Marlee
2003
About a Boy
as Rachel
2002
TV Shows (9)
Dead Ringers
as Elliot Mantle / Beverly Mantle
2023
What If...?
as Melina (voice)
2021
Marvel Studios Assembled
as Self
2021
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest
2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
2015
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2014
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
2003