Actor
Rachel Weisz
56 years · Westminster, London, England, UK · 59 films
Rachel Hannah Weisz (/vaɪs/; born 7 March 1970) is a British actress. Known for her roles in independent films and blockbusters, she has received several awards, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild 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, and 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), Definitely, Maybe (2008), 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, and 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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Best known for
Black Widow
2021 · Melina
On Disney Plus
The Mummy
1999 · Evelyn Carnahan
On YouTube Free
Constantine
2005 · Angela Dodson / Isabel Dodson
On AMC
The Mummy Returns
2001 · Evelyn O'Connell / Nefertiri
On Peacock Premium
The Lobster
2015 · Short Sighted Woman
On HBO Max
Oz the Great and Powerful
2013 · Evanora
On Disney Plus
Filmography 58
Black Widow
2021 · Melina
On Disney Plus
Let's Dance
2018 · Segment: "Coffee to Go"
The Favourite
2018 · Lady Sarah
Disobedience
2018 · Ronit Krushka, Producer
On Plex
The Mercy
2018 · Clare Crowhurst
On Plex
My Cousin Rachel
2017 · Rachel
On HBO Max Amazon Channel
Denial
2016 · Deborah Lipstadt
On Plex
Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
2016 · Self
The Light Between Oceans
2016 · Hannah Roennfeldt
Complete Unknown
2016 · Alice Manning
On Amazon Prime Video
The Lobster
2015 · Short Sighted Woman
On HBO Max
Youth
2015 · Lena Ballinger
Regina
2013 · Regina Jonas (voice)
On Kanopy
Oz the Great and Powerful
2013 · Evanora
On Disney Plus
The Bourne Legacy
2012 · Dr. Marta Shearing
On Netflix
360
2012 · Rose
On Kanopy
The Deep Blue Sea
2011 · Hester Collyer
On Brew
Dream House
2011 · Libby Atenton
Page Eight
2011 · Nancy Pierpan
The Thief
2011 · Director, Writer
The Whistleblower
2010 · Kathryn Bolkovac
On Hulu
The Lovely Bones
2009 · Abigail Salmon
On fuboTV
The Brothers Bloom
2009 · Penelope Stamp
On Plex
Agora
2009 · Hypatia
On The CW