Rachel Weisz
Early life and background
Weisz was born in Westminster, London, England, and grew up in the Hampstead Garden Suburb.[4] Her mother, Edith Ruth (née Teich), is a teacher turned psy
chotherapist who was born in Vienna, Austria. Her father, George Weisz, is a Hungarian-born inventor and engineer.[5] Her parents fled to England during the Second World War. W
eisz' father is Jewish and her mother is of Jewish, Catholic Viennese and Italian descent.[6][7][8] Weisz's maternal grandfather, Alexander Teich, was a secretary of the World Union of Jewish Students,[9][10][11] and Weisz' maternal grandmother's mother was Italian.[8] Weisz has
a sister, Minnie, who is an artist.[12]
Weisz was educated privately at independent schools for girls: North London Collegiate School, Benenden School, and St Paul's Girls' School. She then entered Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where she graduated with a 2:1 in English. During her university years, she appeared in various student productions
, co-founding a student drama group called Cambridge Talking Tongues, which went on to win a Guardian Student Drama Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for an improvised piece called Slight Possession.[13]
Career
Screen
In 2005, Weisz starred in Fernando Meirelles's The Constant Gardener, a film adaptation of a John le Carré thriller of the same title set in the slums of Kibera and Loiyangalani, Kenya.[16][17]Having already worked for television productions, such as Inspector Morse (1993), Weisz started her cinema career in 1995 with Chain Reaction and then appeared in Bernardo Bertolucci'sStealing Beauty. She followed this work with more English films including My Summer with Des,Swept from the Sea, The Land Girls, and Michael Winterbottom's I Want You.[14] Although she received favourable critical recognition for her work to this point,[citation needed] her breakout into wide audience recognition came from a horror movie The Mummy, i
n which she played the lead female role alongside Brend
an Fraser. She followed this up with two hits, The Mummy Returns(2001), which grossed $433m, even higher than the original, and About a Boy (2002) with Hugh Grant. She then appeared in Enemy at the Gates (2001), Runaway Jury (2003) and Constantine(2005).[15]
The same year, she starred in The Fountain and also provided the voice for Saphira in the fantasy film Eragon. Her subsequent films include the Wong Kar-wai-directed dra
ma My Blueberry Nights(in which she played an "anti-Southern belle")[18] and director Rian Johnson's The Brothers Bloom, in which she plays a wealthy American woman targeted by two con man brothers (Adrien Brody,Mark Ruffalo).[18]In 2006 she was offered the role of Becky Sc
ott in Kevin Smith's film Clerks II, but she turned it down. The role ultimately went to Rosario Dawson. She plays the lead role of Hypatia of Alexandria in the historical drama
film Agora,an spanish production directed by Alejandro Amenábar, released in October 2009.
Her film The Whistleblower debuted at the Toronto Film Festival in 2010.[19] The film made a woman in the crowd faint.[20] In 2010, She guest Starred in the animated series The Simpsons Season 22 Episode How Munched is that Birdie in the Window as the voice of Dr Thurston
Stage
Her breakthrough role was that of Gilda in Welsh dire
ctor Sean Mathias's 1994 West End revival of Noel Coward's 1933 play Design for Livingat the Gielgud Theatre.[21][22] Her other stage work includes the role of Catherine in the Donmar's production of Tennessee Williams'Suddenly Last Su
mmer and Evelyn in Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things a
t the Almeida Theatre (also film) at its, then, temporary location in London's Kings Cross. In 2009, she played Blanche DuBois in Rob Ashford's Donmar revival of A Streetcar Named Desire.[23]
Other
On 7 July 2007, Weisz presented at the American leg of
Live Earth. She is represented by Independent Models in London.
Personal life
Weisz began dating American filmmaker and producer Darren Aronofsky in the summer of 2001. They met backstage at London's Almeida Theatre, where she was starring in The Shape of Things.[24] They became engaged in 2005.[25] Their son, Henry Chance, was born on 31 May 2006 in New York City.[26][27] The couple resided in the East Village in
Manhattan. On 9 November 2010, Weisz and Aronofsky announced that they had been "separated for some months", but "remain close friends and are committed to raising their son together in NYC".[28]
Weisz serves as a muse to fashion designer Narciso Rodriguez.[29]
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