Rachel Hannah Weisz (born 7 March 1970) is an English film and theatre actress and fashion model. She started her acting career at Trinity Hall, Cambridge University, where she co-founded the theatrical group Cambridge Talking Tongues. The group was awarded the Student Drama Award for the improvised piece Slight Possession during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe by The Guardian. Weisz started working in television, appearing in Inspector Morse, the British miniseries The Scarlet and the Black, and the television movie Advocates II. She made her film debut in the 1994 film Death Machine, but her breakthrough role came in the 1996 movie Chain reaction, leading to a high-profile role as Evelyn Carnahan-O'Connell in the films The Mummy, in 1999, and The Mummy Returns in 2001. Other notable films featuring Weisz are Enemy at the Gates, About a Boy, Constantine, The Fountain and The Constant Gardener, for which she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role. Weisz also worked on theatre. Her stage breakthrough was the 1994 revival of Noel Coward's play Design for Living, which earned her the 'London Critics' Circle Award for the most promising newcomer. Weisz's performances also include the 1999 Donmar Warehouse production of Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer, and the 2006 revival of A Streetcar Named Desire. Her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in the latter play earned her the Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Actress of 2009.
Movie | Thunderbolts* | Melina Vostokoff | 2025-04-30 |
Series | Dead Ringers | Elliot Mantle / Beverly Mantle | 2023-04-20 |
Movie | Black Widow | Melina | 2021-01-01 |
Movie | Being James Bond | Self (archive footage) | 2021-08-29 |
Movie | The Mercy | Clare Crowhurst | 2018-02-09 |
Movie | Disobedience | Ronit Krushka | 2018-04-24 |
Movie | Let's Dance | Segment: "Coffee to Go" | 2018-12-06 |
Movie | The Favourite | Lady Sarah | 2018-11-23 |
Movie | My Cousin Rachel | Rachel | 2017-06-08 |
Movie | Complete Unknown | Alice Manning | 2016-08-26 |
Movie | The Light Between Oceans | Hannah Roennfeldt | 2016-09-02 |
Movie | Denial | Deborah Lipstadt | 2016-09-30 |
Movie | Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible | Self | 2016-09-20 |
Movie | Youth | Lena Ballinger | 2015-05-20 |
Movie | The Lobster | Short Sighted Woman | 2015-10-15 |
Movie | Oz the Great and Powerful | Evanora | 2013-03-07 |
Movie | 360 | Rose | 2012-07-25 |
Movie | The Bourne Legacy | Dr. Marta Shearing | 2012-08-08 |
Movie | Page Eight | Nancy Pierpan | 2011-08-28 |
Movie | Dream House | Libby Atenton | 2011-09-29 |
Movie | The Deep Blue Sea | Hester Collyer | 2011-09-11 |
Movie | The Whistleblower | Kathryn Bolkovac | 2010-09-13 |
Movie | Agora | Hypatia | 2009-05-17 |
Movie | The Lovely Bones | Abigail Salmon | 2009-12-26 |
Movie | Definitely, Maybe | Summer Hartley | 2008-02-08 |
Movie | The Brothers Bloom | Penelope Stamp | 2008-09-09 |
Movie | Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth | Herself | 2007-05-15 |
Movie | Fred Claus | Wanda Blinkowski | 2007-11-09 |
Movie | My Blueberry Nights | Sue Lynne | 2007-11-28 |
Movie | Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener | Self | 2006-01-10 |
Movie | Eragon | Saphira (voice) | 2006-12-14 |
Movie | The Fountain | Isabel / Izzi Creo | 2006-11-22 |
Movie | Constantine | Angela Dodson / Isabel Dodson | 2005-02-08 |
Movie | The Constant Gardener | Tessa Quayle | 2005-08-31 |
Movie | Envy | Debbie Dingman | 2004-04-30 |
Movie | Runaway Jury | Marlee | 2003-01-16 |
Movie | Confidence | Lily | 2003-04-25 |
Movie | The Shape of Things | Evelyn Ann Thompson | 2003-07-24 |
Movie | About a Boy | Rachel | 2002-04-26 |
Movie | Enemy at the Gates | Tania Chernova | 2001-02-28 |
Movie | The Mummy Returns | Evelyn O'Connell / Nefertiri | 2001-05-04 |
Movie | Beautiful Creatures | Petula | 2000-08-23 |
Movie | Sunshine | Greta | 1999-09-13 |
Movie | The Mummy | Evelyn Carnahan | 1999-04-16 |
Movie | Building A Better Mummy | Self | 1999-09-28 |
Movie | Tube Tales | Angela (segment "Rosebud") | 1999-11-19 |
Movie | Swept from the Sea | Amy Foster | 1998-01-23 |
Movie | I Want You | Helen | 1998-02-15 |
Movie | The Land Girls | Ag (Agapanthus) | 1998-06-12 |
Movie | My Summer With Des | Rosie | 1998-05-25 |
Movie | This Is Not an Exit: The Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis | Lauren Hynde | 1998-08-23 |
Movie | Going All the Way | Marty Pilcher | 1997-09-19 |
Movie | Bent | Prostitute | 1997-11-26 |
Movie | Chain Reaction | Dr. Lily Sinclair | 1996-08-02 |
Movie | Stealing Beauty | Miranda Fox | 1996-03-29 |
Movie | Death Machine | Junior Executive | 1995-05-02 |
Movie | White Goods | Elaine | 1994-01-01 |
Movie | Dirtysomething | Becca | 1994-04-06 |
Series | Scarlet and Black | Mathilde de la Mole | 1993-10-31 |
Series | The Advocates | 1991-04-02 |