
Rachel Weisz
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2023 · Dead Ringers as Elliot Mantle / Beverly Mantle
- 2021 · What If...? as Melina (voice)
- 2021 · Black Widow as Melina
- 2021 · Marvel Studios Assembled as Self
- 2018 · The Favourite as Lady Sarah
- 2018 · Disobedience as Ronit Krushka
- 2015 · The Lobster as Short Sighted Woman
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as
- 2015 · Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- 2015 · Youth as Lena Ballinger
- 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- 2013 · Oz the Great and Powerful as Evanora
- 2012 · The Bourne Legacy as Dr. Marta Shearing
- 2009 · The Lovely Bones as Abigail Salmon
- 2008 · Definitely, Maybe as Summer Hartley
- 2007 · My Blueberry Nights as Sue Lynne
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self - Guest
- 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
- 2003 · The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
- 2003 · Runaway Jury as Marlee
- 2001 · The Mummy Returns as Evelyn O'Connell / Nefertiri
- 2001 · Enemy at the Gates as Tania Chernova
- 1999 · The Early Show as Self
- 1999 · The Mummy as Evelyn Carnahan
- 1997 · The View as Self
- 1996 · Chain Reaction as Dr. Lily Sinclair
- 1996 · The Daily Show as Self
- 1996 · Stealing Beauty as Miranda Fox
- 1993 · Scarlet and Black as Mathilde de la Mole
- 1993 · Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- 1992 · The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as
- 1991 · The Advocates as
- 1989 · The Simpsons as Dr. Thurston (voice)
- 1988 · LIVE with Kelly and Mark as
- 1987 · Inspector Morse as Arabella Baydon
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- Future · Vladimir as
- 2021 · Being James Bond as Self (archive footage)
- 2018 · Let's Dance as Segment: "Coffee to Go"
- 2018 · The Mercy as Clare Crowhurst
- 2017 · My Cousin Rachel as Rachel
- 2016 · 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
- 2013 · Regina as Regina Jonas (voice)
- 2012 · 360 as Rose
- 2011 · Dream House as Libby Atenton
- 2011 · The Deep Blue Sea as Hester Collyer
- 2011 · Page Eight as Nancy Pierpan
- 2010 · The Whistleblower as Kathryn Bolkovac
- 2009 · Agora as Hypatia
- 2008 · The Brothers Bloom as Penelope Stamp
- 2008 · Unraveling the Legacy of the Mummy as Self
- 2007 · Fred Claus as Wanda Blinkowski
- 2007 · Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth as Herself
- 2006 · Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener as Self
- 2004 · Envy as Debbie Dingman
- 2003 · The Shape of Things as Evelyn Ann Thompson
- 2003 · Confidence as Lily
- 2002 · About a Boy as Rachel
- 2000 · Beautiful Creatures as Petula
- 1999 · Tube Tales as Angela (segment "Rosebud")
- 1999 · Building A Better Mummy as Self
- 1999 · Sunshine as Greta
- 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
- 1995 · Death Machine as Junior Executive
- Future · A Special Relationship as Elizabeth Taylor
- 1994 · Dirtysomething as Becca
- 1994 · White Goods as Elaine
- Future · Seance on a Wet Afternoon as Myra Savage
- 1994 · Seventeen as