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Rachel Weisz - Overview

Date of Birth: Mar 07, 1971    
Place of Birth: London, England
Nationality: English
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British stage and film actress Rachel Weisz stood out from the pack of emerging U.K. actresses in the 1990s with her exotic, decidedly un-British looks, as well as the fierce intelligence of a woman who had been on a fast track to academia before early stage success altered her path. Weisz founded an innovative comedy group at Cambridge, but her film career mainly centered on ambitious, independent dramas until Hollywood invited her into the fray with roles in several comedy and adventure blockbusters. Alternately cast as the deceptively smart sex bomb, the pensive outsider, and the fierce independent in films of wildly unpredictable quality, Weisz was officially bumped up to top drawer projects when she earned Oscar, Golden Globe, and BAFTA awards for her starring role in the 2005 film adaptation of John LeCarre’s “The Constant Gardner.”

Rachel Weisz was born on March 7, 1970 and raised in London’s artistic and intellectually-oriented suburb of Hampstead. Her parents were both Jewish émigrés who had escaped the Nazi regime – her father, a scientific invent... Read More
2009
Played a beautiful heiress being coned by Mark Ruffalo and Adrien Brody in the comedy, "The Brothers Bloom"
2009
Cast as Blanche DuBois in the West End revival of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire"
2009
Played the mother of a young girl who is murdered in the film adaptation of Alice Sebold's bestseller, "The Lovely Bones"
2008
Played an ambitious journalist opposite Ryan Reynolds in "Definitely, Maybe"
2007
Co-starred with Jude Law and Natalie Portman in director Wong Kar-Wai's "My Blueberry Nights"
2006
Cast opposite Hugh Jackman in "The Fountain"; written and directed by Darren Aronofsky
2005
Co-starred in "The Constant Gardener" an adaptation of the best-selling John le Carré novel; directed by Fernando Meirelles
Movie: The Lovely Bones Mark Wahlberg as Jack Salmon in "The Lovely Bones."
Movie: The Lovely Bones (L-R) Andrew James Allen as Samuel and Rose McIver as Lindsey Salmon in "The Lovely Bones."
Movie: The Lovely Bones (L-R) Mark Wahlberg as Jack Salmon and Michael Imperioli as Detective Len Fenerman in "The Lovely Bones."
Movie: The Lovely Bones (L-R) Mark Wahlberg as Jack Salmon and Saoirse Ronan as Susie Salmon in "The Lovely Bones."
Movie: The Lovely Bones (L-R) Mark Wahlberg as Jack Salmon and Stanley Tucci as George Harvey in "The Lovely Bones."
Movie: The Lovely Bones (L-R) Rachel Weisz as Abigail Salmon and Christian Ashdale as Buckley Salmon in "The Lovely Bones."
Movie: The Lovely Bones (L-R) Saoirse Ronan and director Peter Jackson on the set of "The Lovely Bones."
Movie: The Lovely Bones (L-R) Saoirse Ronan as Susie Salmon and Reece Ritchie as Ray Singh in "The Lovely Bones."
Movie: The Lovely Bones (L-R) Saoirse Ronan as Susie Salmon and Susan Sarandon as Grandma Lynn in "The Lovely Bones."
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