Rachel Hannah Weisz\u00a0(\/va\u026as\/;\u00a0born 7 March 1970)\u00a0is an English actress. Known for her roles in independent films and blockbusters, she has received\u00a0several awards, including an\u00a0Academy Award, a\u00a0BAFTA Award, a\u00a0Golden Globe Award, and a\u00a0Laurence Olivier Award.<\/p>\n
Weisz began acting in stage and television productions in the early 1990s and made her film debut in\u00a0Death Machine\u00a0(1994). She won a\u00a0Critics’ Circle Theatre Award\u00a0for her role in the 1994 revival of\u00a0No\u00ebl Coward’s play\u00a0Design for Living. She went on to appear in the 1999\u00a0Donmar Warehouse\u00a0production of\u00a0Tennessee Williams’ drama\u00a0Suddenly Last Summer. Her film breakthrough came with her starring role as\u00a0Evelyn Carnahan\u00a0in the Hollywood action films\u00a0The Mummy\u00a0(1999) and\u00a0The Mummy Returns(2001). Weisz went on to star in several films of the 2000s, including\u00a0Enemy at the Gates\u00a0(2001),\u00a0About a Boy\u00a0(2002),\u00a0Runaway Jury\u00a0(2003),\u00a0Constantine\u00a0(2005),\u00a0The Fountain\u00a0(2006),\u00a0The Lovely Bones\u00a0(2009) and\u00a0The Whistleblower (2010).<\/p>\n
For her performance as an activist in the 2005 thriller\u00a0The Constant Gardener, she won the\u00a0Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. For playing\u00a0Blanche DuBois\u00a0in a 2009 revival of\u00a0A Streetcar Named Desire, she won the\u00a0Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress. In the 2010s, Weisz continued to star in big-budget films such as the action film\u00a0The Bourne Legacy\u00a0(2012) and the fantasy film\u00a0Oz the Great and Powerful\u00a0(2013) and achieved critical acclaim for her performances in the independent films\u00a0The Deep Blue Sea (2011),\u00a0Denial\u00a0(2016), and\u00a0The Favourite\u00a0(2018). For her portrayal of\u00a0Sarah Churchill\u00a0in\u00a0The Favourite, she won the\u00a0BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role\u00a0and received a second Academy Award nomination.\u00a0Weisz portrayed\u00a0Melina Vostokoff\u00a0in the\u00a0Marvel Cinematic Universe\u00a0film\u00a0Black Widow\u00a0(2021) and starred as twin obstetricians in the thriller miniseries\u00a0Dead Ringers\u00a0(2023).<\/p>\n
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Rachel Hannah Weisz\u00a0(\/va\u026as\/;\u00a0born 7 March 1970)\u00a0is an English actress. Known for her roles in independent films and blockbusters, she has received\u00a0several awards, including an\u00a0Academy Award, a\u00a0BAFTA Award, a\u00a0Golden Globe Award, and a\u00a0Laurence Olivier Award. Weisz began acting in stage and television productions in the early 1990s and made her film debut in\u00a0Death Machine\u00a0(1994). She won […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-26393","movie_engine_person","type-movie_engine_person","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n