Rachel Weisz
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Rachel Hannah Weisz (/vaɪs/; 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 Noël 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.
Known for
Credits
The Mummy (1999)
as Evelyn Carnahan
Black Widow (2021)
as Melina
The Constant Gardener (2005)
as Tessa Quayle
Constantine (2005)
as Angela Dodson / Isabel Dodson
The Mummy Returns (2001)
as Evelyn O'Connell / Nefertiri
Disobedience (2018)
as Ronit Krushka
The Lovely Bones (2009)
as Abigail Salmon
The Bourne Legacy (2012)
as Dr. Marta Shearing
Enemy at the Gates (2001)
as Tania Chernova
The Favourite (2018)
as Lady Sarah
Agora (2009)
as Hypatia
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)
as Evanora
The Lobster (2015)
as Short Sighted Woman
Youth (2015)
as Lena Ballinger
The Light Between Oceans (2016)
as Hannah Roennfeldt
Fred Claus (2007)
as Wanda Blinkowski
Complete Unknown (2016)
as Alice Manning
The Mummy: Book of the Dead (2027)
as Evelyn O'Connell
My Blueberry Nights (2007)
as Sue Lynne
Eragon (2006)
as Saphira (voice)
About a Boy (2002)
as Rachel
Definitely, Maybe (2008)
as Summer Hartley
Chain Reaction (1996)
as Dr. Lily Sinclair
Sunshine (1999)
as Greta
Stealing Beauty (1996)
as Miranda Fox
Runaway Jury (2003)
as Marlee
The Fountain (2006)
as Isabel / Izzi Creo
The Mercy (2018)
as Clare Crowhurst
Tube Tales (1999)
as Angela (segment "Rosebud")
Dream House (2011)
as Libby Atenton
The Deep Blue Sea (2011)
as Hester Collyer
The Whistleblower (2010)
as Kathryn Bolkovac
Dirtysomething (1994)
as Becca
The Brothers Bloom (2009)
as Penelope Stamp
Denial (2016)
as Deborah Lipstadt
Confidence (2003)
as Lily
Envy (2004)
as Debbie Dingman
My Cousin Rachel (2017)
as Rachel
Seventeen (1994)
Actor
Death Machine (1995)
as Junior Executive
Let's Dance (2018)
as Segment: "Coffee to Go"
360 (2012)
as Rose
Page Eight (2011)
as Nancy Pierpan
Swept from the Sea (1998)
as Amy Foster
Regina (2013)
as Regina Jonas (voice)
Going All the Way (1997)
as Marty Pilcher
Séance on a Wet Afternoon (—)
as Myra Savage
Bent (1997)
as Prostitute
I Want You (1998)
as Helen
The Shape of Things (2003)
as Evelyn Ann Thompson
Beautiful Creatures (2000)
as Petula
The Land Girls (1998)
as Ag (Agapanthus)
Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible (2016)
as Self
This Is Not an Exit: The Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis (1998)
as Lauren Hynde
Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth (2007)
as Herself
Building a Better Mummy (1999)
as Self
My Summer With Des (1998)
as Rosie
Unraveling the Legacy of the Mummy (2008)
as Self
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener (2006)
as Self
White Goods (1994)
as Elaine
A Special Relationship (—)
as Elizabeth Taylor