Rachel Weisz

Biography

Rachel Hannah Weisz (/vaɪs/; born 7 March 1970) is an English actress. Known for her roles in independent films and blockbusters, she has received several awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe 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. She 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), 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. 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

The Simpsons

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Daily Show

The Graham Norton Show

Late Show with David Letterman

The View

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

All Movies (61)

• The Mummy 42027 · as Evelyn Carnahan
• Black Widow2021 · as Melina
• Let's Dance2018 · as Segment: "Coffee to Go"
• The Favourite2018 · as Lady Sarah
• Disobedience2018 · as Ronit Krushka
• The Mercy2018 · as Clare Crowhurst
• My Cousin Rachel2017 · as Rachel
• Denial2016 · as Deborah Lipstadt
• Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible2016 · as Self
• The Light Between Oceans2016 · as Hannah Roennfeldt
• Complete Unknown2016 · as Alice Manning
• The Lobster2015 · as Short Sighted Woman
• Youth2015 · as Lena Ballinger
• Regina2013 · as Regina Jonas (voice)
• Oz the Great and Powerful2013 · as Evanora
• The Bourne Legacy2012 · as Dr. Marta Shearing
• 3602012 · as Rose
• The Deep Blue Sea2011 · as Hester Collyer
• Dream House2011 · as Libby Atenton
• Page Eight2011 · as Nancy Pierpan
• The Whistleblower2010 · as Kathryn Bolkovac
• The Lovely Bones2009 · as Abigail Salmon
• Agora2009 · as Hypatia
• The Brothers Bloom2008 · as Penelope Stamp
• Unraveling the Legacy of the Mummy2008 · as Self
• Definitely, Maybe2008 · as Summer Hartley
• My Blueberry Nights2007 · as Sue Lynne
• Fred Claus2007 · as Wanda Blinkowski
• Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth2007 · as Herself
• Eragon2006 · as Saphira (voice)
• The Fountain2006 · as Isabel / Izzi Creo
• Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener2006 · as Self
• The Constant Gardener2005 · as Tessa Quayle
• Constantine2005 · as Angela Dodson / Isabel Dodson
• Envy2004 · as Debbie Dingman
• The Shape of Things2003 · as Evelyn Ann Thompson
• Confidence2003 · as Lily
• Runaway Jury2003 · as Marlee
• About a Boy2002 · as Rachel
• The Mummy Returns2001 · as Evelyn O'Connell / Nefertiri
• Enemy at the Gates2001 · as Tania Chernova
• Beautiful Creatures2000 · as Petula
• Tube Tales1999 · as Angela (segment "Rosebud")
• Building A Better Mummy1999 · as Self
• Sunshine1999 · as Greta
• The Mummy1999 · as Evelyn Carnahan
• This Is Not an Exit: The Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis1998 · as Lauren Hynde
• The Land Girls1998 · as Ag (Agapanthus)
• My Summer With Des1998 · as Rosie
• I Want You1998 · as Helen
• Swept from the Sea1998 · as Amy Foster
• Bent1997 · as Prostitute
• Going All the Way1997 · as Marty Pilcher
• Chain Reaction1996 · as Dr. Lily Sinclair
• Stealing Beauty1996 · as Miranda Fox
• Death Machine1995 · as Junior Executive
• Dirtysomething1994 · as Becca
• White Goods1994 · as Elaine
• Seventeen1994
• Séance on a Wet Afternoon— · as Myra Savage
• A Special Relationship— · as Elizabeth Taylor

All TV Shows (23)

• Vladimir2026 · as M
• Dead Ringers2023 · as Elliot Mantle / Beverly Mantle
• What If...?2021 · as Melina (voice)
• Marvel Studios Assembled2021 · as Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert2015 · as Self - Guest
• Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter2015 · as Self
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors2014 · as Self
• The Graham Norton Show2007 · as Self
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show2003 · as Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live!2003 · as Self - Guest
• The Early Show1999 · as Self
• The View1997 · as Self
• The Daily Show1996 · as Self - Guest
• Scarlet and Black1993 · as Mathilde de la Mole
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien1993 · as Self - Guest
• Late Show with David Letterman1993 · as Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno1992
• The Advocates1991
• The Simpsons1989 · as Dr. Thurston (voice)
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark1988
• Inspector Morse1987 · as Arabella Baydon
• Screen Two1985 · as Becca
• The Oscars1953 · as Self