Rachel Weisz Bio | Wiki
Rachel Weisz is an English actress. She has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Laurence Olivier Award, and a BAFTA Award.
Rachel began acting on the British stage and television 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 and she went on to appear in the 1999 Donmar Warehouse production of Tennessee Williams’ drama Suddenly, Last Summer.
Rachel Weisz Age
Rachel was born on March 7, 1970, in Westminster, London, United Kingdom. She is 52 years old.
Rachel Weisz Height
She is a woman of average stature and stands at a height of 5 ft 6 in (Approx. 1.68 m).
Rachel Weisz Family
She was born in Westminster, London, to her parents George Weisz and Edith Ruth. Rachel grew up in Hampstead Garden Suburb. Her father was a Hungarian Jewish mechanical engineer and her mother was a teacher-turned-psychotherapist originally from Vienna, Austria.
Rachel’s parents both emigrated to the United Kingdom as children around 1938, prior to the outbreak of World War II, in order to escape the Nazis. Her younger sister Minnie Weisz is a visual artist.
Rachel Weisz Husband
In 2001, she began dating American filmmaker and producer Darren Aronofsky. Rachel moved to New York with Aronofsky the following year, in 2005, they were engaged. Their son was born in May 2006 in New York City.
The couple resided in the East Village in Manhattan. In November 2010, Rachel and Aronofsky announced that they had been apart for months, but remained close friends and were committed to bringing up their son together in New York.
Rachel Weisz Daniel Craig
Rachel and actor Daniel Craig had been friends for many years and worked together on the film Dream House. They began dating in December 2010 and they married on 22 June 2011 in a private New York ceremony, with four guests in attendance, including Rachel’s son and Craig’s daughter. On 1 September 2018, it was reported that they had their first child together, a daughter.
Rachel Weisz Education
She left North London Collegiate School and attended Benenden School for one year, completing A-levels at St Paul’s Girls School. Rachel went to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where she read English. She graduated with upper second-class honors.
During her university years, she was a contemporary of Sacha Baron Cohen, Alexander Armstrong, Emily Maitlis, Sue Perkins, Mel Giedroyc, Richard Osman, and Ben Miller (whom she briefly dated).
Rachel Weisz In The Mummy
In 1999, her international breakthrough came with the adventure film The Mummy, in which Rachel played the female lead opposite Brendan Fraser. Her character, Evelyn Carnahan, is an English Egyptologist, who undertook an expedition to the fictional ancient Egyptian city of Hamunaptra to discover an ancient book.
Rachel followed this up with the sequel The Mummy Returns in 2001, which grossed an estimated $433 million worldwide,(equivalent to $663 million in 2021 dollars) higher than the original’s $260 million[58] (equal to $423 million in 2021 dollars).
Movies With Rachel Weisz
1992 Advocates II
1993 Inspector Morse
1993 Tropical Heat
1994 Seventeen
1994 Screen Two
1998 My Summer with Des
2010 The Simpsons
2011 Page Eight
TBA Dead Ringers
2017 My Cousin Rachel
2017 Disobedience
2018 The Favourite
2021 Black Widow
Rachel Weisz In Constantine
She was cast alongside Keanu Reeves in Constantine, based on the comic book Hellblazer. Film Threat called Rachel’s portrayal “effective at projecting scepticism and, eventually, dawning horror”. Constantine is a 2005 American superhero horror film directed by Francis Lawrence in his directorial debut. Written by Kevin Brodbin and Frank Cappello, it is loosely based on DC Comics’ Hellblazer comic book.
Rachel Weisz Net Worth
She earns her wealth from her career, therefore, she has amassed a fortune over the years. Rachel’s estimated net worth is $40 million.
How Old Is Rachel Weisz
She is 52 years old. Rachel was born on March 7, 1970, in Westminster, London, United Kingdom.
Who Is Rachel Weisz Married To
Rachel and actor Daniel Craig had been friends for many years and worked together on the film Dream House. They began dating in December 2010 and they married on 22 June 2011 in a private New York ceremony.