| Biography | Nama : Rachel Weisz
Birth Name : Rachel Weisz
Birth Date : 03/07/1971
Birth Place : London, England, UK
Height : 5' 7"
Sex : F
Nationality : British
Occupation : Actress
Father : George Weisz
Mother : Edith Ruth Weisz
Relation : Ben Miller (actor, 1991 - 1993), Alessandro Nivola (actor), Neil Morrissey (actor, 1998), Sam Mendes (film director, 1999 - 2000), Darren Aronofsky (film director, engaged)
Claim Fame : As Evelyn Carnahan in movie "The Mummy" (1999)
Rachel Weisz (pronounced "vice") is a British actress who was born in London on March 7, 1971. Both her mother and her father are Jewish and, in the late 1930s, were brought from Vienna and Hungary respectively to England to escape persecution by the Nazis.
Weisz read English Literature at Cambridge. During her college years she already appeared in various student productions, mainly as part of Cambridge Footlights. Her breakthrough role was that of Gilda in Sean Mathias's 1995 West End revival of No?l Coward's 1933 play Design for Living at the Gielgud Theatre.
Having already worked for television, Weisz started her cinema career in 1996 with Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty. Since then she has starred in a number of films including The Land Girls (1998), About a Boy (2002), and Runaway Jury (2003). In 2001 she returned to the stage to play Evelyn in Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things at the Almeida Theatre.
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