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Rachel Weisz
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Rachel Hannah Weisz (/vaΙͺs/; born 7 March 1970) is a British actress. Known for her roles in independent films and blockbusters, she has received several awards, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Laurence Olivier Award.
Weisz began acting in stage and television productions in the early 1990s, and made her film debut in Death Machine (1994). She won a Critics' Circle Theatre Award for her role in the 1994 revival of NoΓ«l Coward's play Design for Living, and went on to appear in the 1999 Donmar Warehouse production of Tennessee Williams' drama Suddenly Last Summer. Her film breakthrough came with her starring roβ¦
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Rachel Hannah Weisz (/vaΙͺs/; born 7 March 1970) is a British actress. Known for her roles in independent films and blockbusters, she has received several awards, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Laurence Olivier Award. Weisz began acting in stage and television productions in the early 1990s, and made her film debut in Death Machine (1994). She won a Critics' Circle Theatre Award for her role in the 1994 revival of NoΓ«l Coward's play Design for Living, and went on to appear in the 1999 Donmar Warehouse production of Tennessee Williams' drama Suddenly Last Summer. Her film breakthrough came with her starring role as Evelyn Carnahan in the Hollywood action films The Mummy (1999) and The Mummy Returns (2001). Weisz went on to star in several films of the 2000s, including Enemy at the Gates (2001), About a Boy (2002), Runaway Jury (2003), Constantine (2005), The Fountain (2006), Definitely, Maybe (2008), The Lovely Bones (2009) and The Whistleblower (2010). For her performance as an activist in the 2005 thriller The Constant Gardener, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and for playing Blanche DuBois in a 2009 revival of A Streetcar Named Desire, she won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress. In the 2010s, Weisz continued to star in big-budget films such as the action film The Bourne Legacy (2012) and the fantasy film Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) and achieved critical acclaim for her performances in the independent films The Deep Blue Sea (2011), Denial (2016), and The Favourite (2018). For her portrayal of Sarah Churchill in The Favourite, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and received a second Academy Award nomination. Weisz portrayed Melina Vostokoff in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Black Widow (2021) and starred as twin obstetricians in the thriller miniseries Dead Ringers (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Wendell Pierce, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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BODY OF WORK
Rachel Weisz's Filmography
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The Mummy: Book of the Dead
as Evelyn O'Connell
Black Widow
as Melina
Let's Dance
as Segment: "Coffee to Go"
The Favourite
as Lady Sarah
Disobedience
as Ronit Krushka
The Mercy
as Clare Crowhurst
My Cousin Rachel
as Rachel
Denial
as Deborah Lipstadt
Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
as Self
The Light Between Oceans
as Hannah Roennfeldt
Complete Unknown
as Alice Manning
The Lobster
as Short Sighted Woman
Youth
as Lena Ballinger
Regina
as Regina Jonas (voice)
Oz the Great and Powerful
as Evanora
The Bourne Legacy
as Dr. Marta Shearing
360
as Rose
The Deep Blue Sea
as Hester Collyer
Dream House
as Libby Atenton
Page Eight
as Nancy Pierpan
The Whistleblower
as Kathryn Bolkovac
The Lovely Bones
as Abigail Salmon
The Brothers Bloom
as Penelope Stamp
Agora
as Hypatia
Unraveling the Legacy of the Mummy
as Self
Definitely, Maybe
as Summer Hartley
My Blueberry Nights
as Sue Lynne
Fred Claus
as Wanda Blinkowski
Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth
as Herself
Eragon
as Saphira (voice)
The Fountain
as Isabel / Izzi Creo
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
as Self
The Constant Gardener
as Tessa Quayle
Constantine
as Angela Dodson / Isabel Dodson
Envy
as Debbie Dingman
Runaway Jury
as Marlee
The Shape of Things
as Evelyn Ann Thompson
Confidence
as Lily
About a Boy
as Rachel
The Mummy Returns
as Evelyn O'Connell / Nefertiri
Enemy at the Gates
as Tania Chernova
Beautiful Creatures
as Petula
Tube Tales
as Angela (segment "Rosebud")
Building a Better Mummy
as Self
Sunshine
as Greta
The Mummy
as Evelyn Carnahan
This Is Not an Exit: The Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis
as Lauren Hynde
The Land Girls
as Ag (Agapanthus)
My Summer With Des
as Rosie
I Want You
as Helen
Swept from the Sea
as Amy Foster
Bent
as Prostitute
Going All the Way
as Marty Pilcher
Chain Reaction
as Dr. Lily Sinclair
Stealing Beauty
as Miranda Fox
Death Machine
as Junior Executive
Dirtysomething
as Becca
No Poster
Seventeen
White Goods
as Elaine
No Poster
SΓ©ance on a Wet Afternoon
as Myra Savage
No Poster
A Special Relationship
as Elizabeth Taylor