Rachel Weisz
Acting • Born 1970-03-07
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.
Filmography
84 credits
About a Boy
Movie • 2002
Rachel
Enemy at the Gates
Movie • 2001
Tania Chernova
Constantine
Movie • 2005
Angela Dodson / Isabel Dodson
The Mummy
Movie • 1999
Evelyn Carnahan
The Fountain
Movie • 2006
Isabel / Izzi Creo
Death Machine
Movie • 1995
Junior Executive
The Mummy Returns
Movie • 2001
Evelyn O'Connell / Nefertiri
Eragon
Movie • 2006
Saphira (voice)
Swept from the Sea
Movie • 1998
Amy Foster
The Constant Gardener
Movie • 2005
Tessa Quayle
My Blueberry Nights
Movie • 2007
Sue Lynne
Envy
Movie • 2004
Debbie Dingman
Confidence
Movie • 2003
Lily
Fred Claus
Movie • 2007
Wanda Blinkowski
The Shape of Things
Movie • 2003
Evelyn Ann Thompson
The Brothers Bloom
Movie • 2008
Penelope Stamp
Runaway Jury
Movie • 2003
Marlee
The Lovely Bones
Movie • 2009
Abigail Salmon
Definitely, Maybe
Movie • 2008
Summer Hartley
Chain Reaction
Movie • 1996
Dr. Lily Sinclair
Agora
Movie • 2009
Hypatia
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
Movie • 2006
Self
I Want You
Movie • 1998
Helen
Stealing Beauty
Movie • 1996
Miranda Fox
Beautiful Creatures
Movie • 2000
Petula
The Land Girls
Movie • 1998
Ag (Agapanthus)
The Bourne Legacy
Movie • 2012
Dr. Marta Shearing
The Whistleblower
Movie • 2010
Kathryn Bolkovac
Sunshine
Movie • 1999
Greta
Oz the Great and Powerful
Movie • 2013
Evanora
Dream House
Movie • 2011
Libby Atenton
My Summer With Des
Movie • 1998
Rosie
The Deep Blue Sea
Movie • 2011
Hester Collyer
Page Eight
Movie • 2011
Nancy Pierpan
Séance on a Wet Afternoon
Movie
Myra Savage
360
Movie • 2012
Rose
Going All the Way
Movie • 1997
Marty Pilcher
The Light Between Oceans
Movie • 2016
Hannah Roennfeldt
The Lobster
Movie • 2015
Short Sighted Woman
Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
Movie • 2016
Self
Regina
Movie • 2013
Regina Jonas (voice)
Youth
Movie • 2015
Lena Ballinger
Dirtysomething
Movie • 1994
Becca
This Is Not an Exit: The Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis
Movie • 1998
Lauren Hynde
Tube Tales
Movie • 1999
Angela (segment "Rosebud")
Bent
Movie • 1997
Prostitute
The Favourite
Movie • 2018
Lady Sarah
Complete Unknown
Movie • 2016
Alice Manning
Denial
Movie • 2016
Deborah Lipstadt
The Mercy
Movie • 2018
Clare Crowhurst
My Cousin Rachel
Movie • 2017
Rachel
Disobedience
Movie • 2018
Ronit Krushka
White Goods
Movie • 1994
Elaine
Let's Dance
Movie • 2018
Segment: "Coffee to Go"
Black Widow
Movie • 2021
Melina
Building A Better Mummy
Movie • 1999
Self
Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth
Movie • 2007
Herself
Seventeen
Movie • 1994
A Special Relationship
Movie
Elizabeth Taylor
Unraveling the Legacy of the Mummy
Movie • 2008
Self
The Mummy 4
Movie • 2028
Evelyn Carnahan
The Simpsons
TV • 1989
Dr. Thurston (voice)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
TV • 2003
Self
The Daily Show
TV • 1996
Self - Guest
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV • 1988
The View
TV • 1997
Self
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV • 1992
Inspector Morse
TV • 1987
Arabella Baydon
The Early Show
TV • 1999
Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV • 1993
Self - Guest
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Self - Guest
Scarlet and Black
TV • 1993
Mathilde de la Mole
Dead Ringers
TV • 2023
Elliot Mantle / Beverly Mantle
Marvel Studios Assembled
TV • 2021
Self
The Graham Norton Show
TV • 2007
Self
The Advocates
TV • 1991
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV • 2014
Self
What If...?
TV • 2021
Melina (voice)
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
TV • 2015
Self
Vladimir
TV • 2026
M
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV • 2003
Self - Guest
Screen Two
TV • 1985
Becca
Late Show with David Letterman
TV • 1993
Self - Guest