Rachel Weisz Age, Height, Husband, Net Worth & Biography

Rachel Weisz is a British actress best known as Tessa Quayle in The Constant Gardener, a role that won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and as Evelyn Carnahan in The Mummy. Born on March 7, 1970, in Westminster, London, England, Weisz, 56, began her career in British theatre and television, and she has since built a film career that includes The Favourite, About a Boy, The Bourne Legacy and Disobedience, as well as work as a producer.

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Who Is Rachel Weisz?

Rachel Weisz is an actress whose most acclaimed performance is also one of the most powerful of the 2000s. As Tessa Quayle, a British activist who is murdered in Kenya after uncovering a pharmaceutical scandal, in The Constant Gardener (2005), Weisz played a woman who is passionate, idealistic and, in the end, fearless, and her performance won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture. She is also known as Evelyn Carnahan, a librarian and Egyptologist who accidentally unleashes an ancient curse, in The Mummy (1999) and The Mummy Returns (2001), films that became global box-office hits.

Beyond those roles, Weisz has shown a wide range. She played Sarah, the mother of a boy who is befriended by a man with no direction, in About a Boy (2002), opposite Hugh Grant, and she played Sarah Churchill, the Duchess of Marlborough, in The Favourite (2018), a performance that earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress and a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. She starred in The Bourne Legacy (2012), in which she played Marta Shearing, a scientist, in The Deep Blue Sea (2011), and in Disobedience (2017), in which she played Ronit Krushka, a woman who returns to her Orthodox Jewish community. She is married to Daniel Craig, the actor best known as James Bond, whom she wed in 2011.

Early Life & Background

Rachel Hannah Weisz was born in Westminster, London, England, the daughter of Edith, a psychotherapist, and George Weisz, an inventor and mechanical engineer. Her parents were both born in Hungary and came to England as refugees, and Weisz grew up in London, where she attended the independent school North London Collegiate School and later St Paul’s Girls’ School. She went on to study English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree and where she co-founded the student drama group Cambridge Talking Tongues.

She began acting in theatre, appearing in the production of Design for Living (1994), for which she won the Critics’ Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Newcomer, and she appeared in the television series Scarlet and Black (1993), in which she played Kitty. She made her film debut in Death Machine (1994), in which she played a junior executive, and she appeared in White Goods (1994), in Chain Reaction (1996), and in Stealing Beauty (1996), which brought her to wide attention as a film actress.

Career

Weisz’s career in film includes Death Machine, Chain Reaction, Stealing Beauty, The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, Enemy at the Gates (2001), About a Boy, Runaway Jury (2003), Constantine (2005), The Constant Gardener, The Fountain (2006), The Deep Blue Sea, The Bourne Legacy, Oz the Great and Powerful (2013), The Light Between Oceans (2016), The Favourite, Denial (2016), Disobedience, Black Widow (2021), and Dead Ringers (2023). She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Constant Gardener, and she has been nominated for the Academy Award for The Favourite, and for the BAFTA Award for The Constant Gardener and for The Favourite.

On television, Weisz has played in Scarlet and Black and in Dead Ringers, in which she played twin gynaecologists Elliot and Beverly Mantle. She was in a relationship with Darren Aronofsky, a director, from 2001 to 2010, and they have a son together, Henry, born in 2006. She married Daniel Craig, an actor, in 2011, and they have a daughter together, born in 2018. She is a producer, having co-founded the production company LC6 Productions, and she is known for her work as an actress, as a producer, and for a career that has lasted for more than thirty years.

Facts About Rachel Weisz

• She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Constant Gardener (2005).
• She played Evelyn Carnahan in The Mummy (1999) and The Mummy Returns (2001).
• She played Sarah Churchill in The Favourite (2018), earning an Academy Award nomination.
• She played twin gynaecologists in Dead Ringers (2023).
• She is married to Daniel Craig, and they have a daughter together, born in 2018.

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