Rachel Weisz
Actor
Rachel Weisz is the ravenhaired English beauty who won an Oscar as best supporting actress for the 2005 film
The Constant Gardener. Weisz graduated from Cambridge University with accolades for her theatrical skills, then began her professional career in British television. In the early 1990s she appeared on stage and in small movie roles until her early breakthrough appearance in 1996's
Stealing Beauty (with Liv Tyler). She became a star as
Brendan Fraser's damselindistress in the adventure
The Mummy (1999) and as
Hugh Grant's love interest in
About a Boy (2002, based on the novel by
Nick Hornby). Since then Weisz has appeared in big Hollywood productions and small arthouse dramas, including
Chain Reaction (1996, with
Keanu Reeves), The Land Girls (1998),
Enemy at the Gates (2001, costarring
Jude Law), Confidence (2003, with
Dustin Hoffman) and
Runaway Jury (2003, with
John Cusack). In The Constant Gardener she played an illfated activist in Africa, costarring with former Oscarwinner
Ralph Fiennes.
Extra credit: Weisz's first child, a son, was born on 31 May 2006. The father was Darren Aronofsky, the director of the films
Pi (1999) and Requiem for a Dream (2000).
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