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RACHEL WEISZ BIOGRAPHY |
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Rachel Weisz (surname pronounced [va?s] or "vice")
(born 7 March 1971) is an Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning,
and BAFTA-nominated English actress.
Weisz was born in London in 1971. Her father, George Weisz, is a
Hungarian-born inventor. Her mother, Edith, is a Vienna-born
Austrian Catholic psychoanalyst.
Weisz read English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. She graduated
with a 2:1. During her university years she appeared in various
student productions, co-founding a student drama group called
Cambridge Talking Tongues, which went on to win a Guardian
Student Drama Award at the Edinburgh Festival for an improvised
piece called Slight Possession.
Her breakthrough role was that of Gilda in Welsh director Sean
Mathias's 1995 West End revival of Noël Coward's 1933 play
Design for Living at the Gielgud Theatre. Having already worked
for television, with strong parts in major UK series such as
Inspector Morse (1993), Weisz started her cinema career in 1995
with Chain Reaction and then appeared Bernardo Bertolucci's
Stealing Beauty. She followed this work with more English films
including Swept from the Sea, The Land Girls, and Michael
Winterbottom's I Want You. Since then she has starred in a
number of films including The Mummy (1999), Enemy at the Gates
(2001), About a Boy (2002), Runaway Jury (2003) and Constantine
(2005). Her stage work includes the role of Catherine in a
London production of Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer
and Evelyn in Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things at the Almeida
Theatre (also film). In a recent interview, Ms. Weisz expressed
her admiration for Harry Houdini, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix,
Janis Joplin and Jackie Onassis, amongst others, but it is for
singer Elvis Presley that she keeps her greatest love.
Weisz in The Constant Gardener (2005).In 2005, Weisz starred in
The Constant Gardener, a film adaptation of a John le Carré
thriller of the same title set in the slums of Kibera and
Loiyangalani, Kenya. For this role, Weisz won the 2006 Academy
Award for Best Supporting Actress, the 2006 Golden Globe for
Best Supporting Actress and the 2006 Screen Actors Guild Award
for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting
Role. In her home country, she was recognized as a leading role
for the film according to the nomination from the BAFTA Film
Awards and winnings from the London Critics Circle Film Awards
and British Independent Film Awards.
In 2006, Weisz will star in The Fountain, written and directed
by her fiancé, Darren Aronofsky. In the same year, she plans to
star in a New York production of August Strindberg's Miss Julie,
playing the titular role.
Weisz is engaged to American filmmaker Darren Aronofsky. They
have a son, Henry Chance, born on May 31, 2006.[1] The couple
reside in Brooklyn. Weisz previously dated actor Alessandro
Nivola, actor Neil Morrissey, and director Sam Mendes. |
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