Rachel Weisz

Rachel Weisz is an actress and producing British born the March 7th 1971 with London (the United Kingdom).

Biography

Youth

It was born in London and grows with Hampstead. His/her mother, Edith, are a psychoanalyst of Austrian origin born with Vienna. His/her father, George, are an inventor Hungarian of Jewish origin which took refuge in England to escape the Nazi S. the mother from Rachel was described as being catholic, Jewish, or of Jewish origin. Weisz known as to have grown in a intellectual Jewish family and is described as Jewish. She has a sister, Minnie, painter.

She is educated with the North London Collegiate School , then with the Benenden School then, as of the thirteen years age, with St Paul' S Girls' School .

She enters to Trinity Hall of the Université of Cambridge, where she assembles a small troop of Théâtre: the Cambridge Talking Tongues , which will gain a Guardian Student Drama Award during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe . After having obtained its diploma of English Literature, it can be devoted entirely to its passion for the theater, more particularly for the Comédie.

Career

In 1993, it takes down its first roles in telefilms and series (whose Inspecteur Morse ), then in 1995 incarnates of it Gilda in Sérénade to three , play of Noel Coward going back to 1933, with the Gielgud Theater in the West End.

In 1995, it appears for the first time on big screen in Poursuite ( Chain Reaction ), where it is pointed out by the realizer Bernardo Bertolucci who proposes the same year to him a role in stolen Beauté . It continues to work in the English cinema; one sees it in My Summer with , In the middle of the storm , Three English in shift , and I Want You , film of Michael Winterbottom.

Rachel Weisz knows the dedication in 1999, when she interprets the role of a young person Egyptologist in the Mummy (of Stephen Sommers, with in particular Brendan Fraser in the main role). It since turned in one following this film, the Return of the mummy (2001).

She forsakes the theater since 2001 to devote herself entirely to the Cinéma, but one could see it in Soudain last summer of Tennessee Williams in the role of Catherine, and The Shape off Things of Neil LaBute (of which she also produced a cinematographic version in 2003).

It turns approximately a Film per annum, of which Stalingrad (2001), For a boy (2002), the Master of the play (2003), and Constantine (2005).

In 2005 she plays in The Constant Gardener , an adaptation to the cinema of the novel éponyme of John the Square whose history proceeds in the Bidonville S Kenya born from Kibera and Loiyangalani. She saw herself decreeing the Oscar of the best actress in a supporting role for this role, as well as the Golden Globe and the Screen Actors Guild Award. In its native land she was recognized for this role with a nomination with BAFTA S and prices of the London Critics Circle Film Awards and British Independent Film Awards.

In 2006 it is invited to join the Academy off Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The same year, she plays in The Fountain of Darren Aronofsky and incarnates the voice of Saphira in Eragon , and in 2007 in My Blueberry Nights of Wong Kar-Wai), Luna , and Sin City 2 .

July 7th, 2007 it takes share with the American section of Live Earth .

Personal life

Rachel Weisz is promised in marriage of the scenario writer Darren Aronofsky, whom she knows since 2004. They are the parents of a boy born on May 31st, 2006 with New York, fore-mentioned Henry Chance. The couple resides in the East Village of Manhattan. They think of marrying by the traditional ceremony in oldest Synagog of New York.

Catalog of films

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References

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