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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).

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From Westminster, London, England, UK

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Acting

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63 Credits

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The Mummy 1999
Evelyn Carnahan
Constantine 2005
Angela Dodson / Isabel Dodson
The Mummy Returns 2001
Evelyn O'Connell / Nefertiri
The Lobster 2015
Short Sighted Woman
The Bourne Legacy 2012
Dr. Marta Shearing
Eragon 2006
Saphira (voice)
The Fountain 2006
Isabel / Izzi Creo
Youth 2015
Lena Ballinger

Credit 63

2025 A Special Relationship as Elizabeth Taylor

2025 Seance on a Wet Afternoon as Myra Savage

2021 Being James Bond as Self (archive footage)

2021 Black Widow as Melina

2018 Let's Dance as Segment: "Coffee to Go"

2018 The Favourite as Lady Sarah

2018 Disobedience as Ronit Krushka Producer

2018 The Mercy as Clare Crowhurst

2017 My Cousin Rachel as Rachel

2016 Denial as Deborah Lipstadt

2016 Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible as Self

2016 The Light Between Oceans as Hannah Roennfeldt

2016 Complete Unknown as Alice Manning

2015 The Lobster as Short Sighted Woman

2015 Youth as Lena Ballinger

2014 Radiator Executive Producer

2013 Regina as Regina Jonas (voice)

2013 Oz the Great and Powerful as Evanora

2012 The Bourne Legacy as Dr. Marta Shearing

2012 360 as Rose

2011 The Deep Blue Sea as Hester Collyer

2011 Dream House as Libby Atenton

2011 Page Eight as Nancy Pierpan

2011 The Thief Director, Writer

2010 The Whistleblower as Kathryn Bolkovac

2009 The Lovely Bones as Abigail Salmon

2009 Agora as Hypatia

2008 The Brothers Bloom as Penelope Stamp

2008 Unraveling the Legacy of the Mummy as Self

2008 Definitely, Maybe as Summer Hartley

2007 My Blueberry Nights as Sue Lynne

2007 Fred Claus as Wanda Blinkowski

2007 Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth as Herself

2006 Eragon as Saphira (voice)

2006 The Fountain as Isabel / Izzi Creo

2006 Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener as Self

2005 The Constant Gardener as Tessa Quayle

2005 Constantine as Angela Dodson / Isabel Dodson

2004 Envy as Debbie Dingman

2003 The Shape of Things as Evelyn Ann Thompson Producer

2003 Confidence as Lily

2003 Runaway Jury as Marlee

2002 About a Boy as Rachel

2001 The Mummy Returns as Evelyn O'Connell / Nefertiri

2001 Enemy at the Gates as Tania Chernova

2000 Beautiful Creatures as Petula

1999 Tube Tales as Angela (segment "Rosebud")

1999 Building A Better Mummy as Self

1999 Sunshine as Greta

1999 The Mummy as Evelyn Carnahan

1998 This Is Not an Exit: The Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis as Lauren Hynde

1998 The Land Girls as Ag (Agapanthus)

1998 My Summer With Des as Rosie

1998 I Want You as Helen

1998 Swept from the Sea as Amy Foster

1997 Bent as Prostitute

1997 Going All the Way as Marty Pilcher

1996 Chain Reaction as Dr. Lily Sinclair

1996 Stealing Beauty as Miranda Fox

1995 Death Machine as Junior Executive

1994 Dirtysomething as Becca

1994 Seventeen

1994 White Goods as Elaine

Genres

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6.64 War 3

6.45 Adventure 9

6.45 Horror 2

6.43 Fantasy 6

6.42 Science Fiction 4

6.32 Romance 23

6.30 Drama 40

6.27 Action 10

6.23 Mystery 5

6.17 Comedy 14

6.16 Documentary 7

6.15 Thriller 12

6.04 Crime 4

5.85 Music 2

5.52 Family 2

5.22 TV Movie 4