Rachel Hannah Weisz (born March 7 1970) is a British film and theatre actress and model. Started his career at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where she co-founded tongues speak theater group, Cambridge. The Group was awarded a student drama award-winning improvised a bit during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe art storage, The Guardian.
Weisz began work on the television show, Inspector Morse, a British mini-series The Scarlet and black, and a television movie in favour of the II. The film debuted in the movie death machine (1994), but her breakthrough role came in the 1996 film chain reaction test, the leading role of high-quality asEvelyn Carnahan-O'Connell in the Mummy, the Mummy Returns in 1999 and 2001. Other notable movies, along with Weisz is the opposite of the gates, a boy, Constantine, The fountains and the gardener, which she won the Academy Award-, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award for his supporting role as Tessa Quayle.
Weisz also works in the theater. Her breakthrough stage in 1994, it was Noel Coward play design and life, which earned her "London critics ' Circle Award for most promising newcomer revival. Weisz also included appearances in the Donmar Warehouse 1999 production of Tennessee Williams ' Suddenly last summer and the 2009 revival, which carries, named desire. The video, the latter playing Blanche DuBois earned a Critics Circle Theatre Award for best actress in 2009.
Weisz in Westminster, London, England, was born and grew up in Hampstead Garden suburb. Her mother, Edith Ruth (née Teich), is turned psychotherapist, which were born, Vienna, Austria by the teacher. Her father, George Weisz, is a Hungarian inventor and engineer. Her parents fled to England during World War i in the Holocaust. Her father is Jewish and her mother is Jewish, "the Catholic one" and Italian descent. Her grandfather, Alexander, was Secretary of the World Union Teich of Jewish students; Although one of her mother is an old grandmother's recipe was Great from Italy. Has a sister, Minnie, who is a photographer and curator.
Weisz parents valued art and support her and her sister in the form of an opinion by installing them in family discussions.[Her parents later Divorced). Weisz in the North London Collegiate School and attended Benenden one year to complete a ' levels in St Paul school for girls. Weisz said that it was a student of English literature, until a bad teacher was inspired by the age of 16.
Weisz began modeling when she reaches the age of fourteen. in 1984, she gained the attention of the public opinion when he rejected the proposal at the King David Hotel, along with Richard Gere.
After high school she entered Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where she graduated with a 2: 1 in English. In his years at University, she performed a variety of student works, to the student drama group called Cambridge talking tongues. Won drama student Guardian Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1991, an improvised piece called slight possession, directed by David Farr. The group existed until 1993.
Career: After Weisz's University, she taught drama at school, but decided to look for work. During these years started to small roles in television. Despite the growing career, she felt very unhappy, sometimes having days where she can not drag the same bed due to his unhappiness. This situation has led to a therapy three times a week for a five-year period.
Weisz's upcoming roles include the Terence Rattigan play The deep blue sea, the Thriller dream house right next to Daniel Craig and the upcoming romantic drama film, written and directed by Terrence Malick, implying her boyfriend along with Ben-Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, Javier Bardemand Rachel McAdams. From 2011 to include the upcoming February other videos BBC spy Thriller, 8 pages, and Fernando Meirelles psychosexualdrama 360. It is in talks with Walt Disney Pictures to play Evanora: the great and powerful oz.
