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Rachel Weisz

British actress who won an Academy Award for The Constant Gardener and moved easily between blockbusters and indie drama.

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Rachel Weisz

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Rachel Hannah Weisz is a British actress born on 7 March 1970 in Westminster, London.[1][2] She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the 2005 thriller The Constant Gardener.[3][4] Weisz also won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for portraying Sarah Churchill in The Favourite (2018).[3][5]

Key facts and history

In the 2010s, she achieved critical acclaim for performances in The Deep Blue Sea (2011), Denial (2016), and The Favourite (2018).[3] In the early 1990s, Weisz started her career with stage and television work, and her first film appearance was in the 1994 movie Death Machine.[6][4] For her performance in the 1994 revival of Noël Coward's Design for Living, she received the Critics' Circle Theatre Award for most promising newcomer.[6][7][4] In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Weisz played Melina Vostokoff in the 2021 film Black Widow.[3][8]

She played twin obstetricians in the 2023 thriller miniseries Dead Ringers.[3][9] Weisz married actor Daniel Craig on 22 June 2011 in a private ceremony in New York.[10]

What the cited sources add

A 2006 BBC News article states Weisz was born in March 1971 and became a child model at age 14.[4] The same article notes she studied English Literature at Cambridge University and helped form the Talking Tongues theatre company.[4] A 2010 National Post article reports that during the premiere of The Whistleblower, the onscreen atrocities caused one viewer to faint.[11] A 2017 Guardian interview describes Weisz as having "almost no tolerance for the indignities of fame"[12]

The same interview states Weisz bought the rights to Naomi Alderman's novel Disobedience and that her parents came to Britain as child refugees before World War II.[12] A 2009 biography notes Weisz was expelled from Benenden school around the time her parents' marriage broke up.[13]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Rachel Weisz" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Landman, "Rachel Weisz Is Going to Start Correcting People on How to Pronounce Her Last Name", New York, 5 August 2009 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Rachel Weisz" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Aslet, "Design for living", The Daily Telegraph, 14 April 2007; "Rachel Weisz won't let go of her inner tomboy", TODAY, 11 April 2008; Lipworth, "Rachel Weisz: 'I'm still a blushing bride'", The Daily Telegraph, 20 November 2011; Whitington, "'I find it absurd we're talking about women over 40... I feel like saying there aren't enough roles for pandas' – Rachel Weisz", Irish Independent, 11 June 2017; Aschenbrand, "The Chosen Ones: An Interview With Rachel Weisz", Tablet, 29 September 2016; Applebaum, "'No denying my heritage' Stephen Appl en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Rachel Weisz" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Rachel Weisz and Richard E Grant score Oscar nominations", Irish Examiner, 22 January 2019 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. "Weisz's breakthrough to acclaim", BBC News, 17 January 2006. facts only, no text reused. news.bbc.co.uk
  5. Wikipedia, "Rachel Weisz" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "EE British Academy Film Awards Winners in 2019", British Academy of Film and Television Arts, 10 February 2019; "SAG Award Nominations: Complete List", Variety, 12 December 2018; "Golden Globe: The Favourite", Hollywood Foreign Press Association, 7 December 2018; Nordyke, "Critics' Choice Awards: 'The Favourite' Leads With 14 Nominations", The Hollywood Reporter, 10 December 2018; Pulver, "Oscars 2019: Roma and The Favourite vie for glory with 10 nominations each", The Guardian, 22 January 2019 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Rachel Weisz" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Weisz's breakthrough to acclaim", BBC News, 17 January 2006 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Rachel Weisz" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Shenton, "London's Donmar warehouse season to feature Weisz, West, Molina", Playbill, 17 April 2009; Flint Marx, "Rachel Weisz bio, movies and television", The New York Times, 2012; "TV Guide – Rachel Weisz biography", TV Guide, 2010; "Rachel Weisz biography", MSN Movies, 2010; "Stage productions: 'Design For Living'", Rupert Graves (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Rachel Weisz" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Kroll, "'Black Widow': Rachel Weisz Circling Key Role in Marvel's Standalone Film (EXCLUSIVE)", 3 April 2019; Coggan, "Black Widow hits Comic-Con with first details of Scarlett Johansson film", 20 July 2019; Lattanzio, "Disney Moves 'Black Widow' to July, Releasing in Movie Theaters and Disney+ Streaming", indiewire, 23 March 2021 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Wikipedia, "Rachel Weisz" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Golden Globe Awards", Golden Globes; "Rachel Weisz to Star in ‘Vladimir’ Limited Series Adaptation at Netflix", Variety, 4 March 2025; "Joe Alwyn to Star in ‘Séance on a Wet Afternoon’ With Rachel Weisz", Variety, 10 March 2026; "‘The Mummy’: John Hannah Returning as Rachel Weisz’s Brother in Fourth Installment", The Hollywood Reporter, 27 March 2026 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  10. Wikipedia, "Rachel Weisz" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Rachel Weisz, Daniel Craig Get Married: Actress, Actor Wed In Secret Ceremony", The Huffington Post, 25 June 2011; Javed, "Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz welcome first child together", The Independent, 1 September 2018 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  11. Leong, "Star Rachel Weisz and subject Kathryn Bolkovac on detaching themselves from the events of 'The Whistleblower'", National Post, 17 September 2010. facts only, no text reused. nationalpost.com
  12. Brockes, "Rachel Weisz: 'My parents were refugees. Brexit feels like a death'", The Guardian, 10 June 2017. facts only, no text reused. theguardian.com
  13. Tatham, "Rachel Weisz - Biography", 8 October 2009. facts only, no text reused. hellomagazine.com

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