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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Popularity63
Credits6.5
Rating75.6M
Budget189M
RevenueActing
Primarily2025 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