Rachel Weisz
Rachel Weisz was born on 7th March 1970, in London, England, to Edith, an Austrian psychoanalyst and George, a Hungarian inventor. [1]
Rachel Weisz graduated from Cambridge University with accolades for her theatrical skills, then began her professional career in British television. [...] Rachel Weisz is the raven-haired English beauty who won an Oscar as best supporting actress for the 2005 film The Constant Gardener. [2]
She has starred in many movies, including The Mummy (1999), Enemy at the Gates (2001), and Stealing Beauty (1996). [1]
Other notable films featuring Weisz are Enemy at the Gates, About a Boy, Constantine, The Fountain and The Constant Gardener, for which she received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild award for her supporting role as Tessa Quayle. [...] Weisz at the 2010 TIFF premiere of The Whistleblower. [...] She made her film d?but in the 1994 film Death Machine, but her breakthrough role came in the 1996 movie Chain Reaction, leading to a high-profile role as Evelyn Carnahan-O’Connell in the films The Mummy, in 1999, and The Mummy Returns in 2001. [3]
In the early 1990s she appeared on stage and in small movie roles until her early breakthrough appearance in 1996’s Stealing Beauty (with Liv Tyler). [2]
/ vice /; born 7 March 1970) is an English film and theatre actress and fashion model. [3]
She became a star as Brendan Fraser ’s damsel-in-distress in the adventure The Mummy (1999) and as Hugh Grant ’s love interest in About a Boy (2002, based on the novel by Nick Hornby). [2]
Weisz started working in television, appearing in Inspector Morse, the British mini-series The Scarlet and the Black, and the television movie Advocates II. [3]
Weisz won this year’s Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Tessa in The Constant Gardener, which also stars Ralph Fiennes. [2]
Rachel can also be seen in the movies The Shape of Things (2003), About a Boy (2002), Constantine (2005), and The Constant Gardener (2005), for which she won an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Screen Actor's Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress. [...] Divides her time between New York and London, where she has a home on the same street as fellow British actor and good friend Jude Law. [1]
Weisz’s performance in the play won her the Critics’ Circle Best Newcomer award, and she subsequently took advantage of this recognition with a starring role in the BBC’s TV adaptation of Scarlet & Black (1993), and then in 1996 with her aforementioned part in Bertolucci’s Stealing Beauty. [2]
Sources:
[1] Rachel Weisz - Biography
[2] Rachel Weisz: Biography from Answers.com
[3] Rachel Weisz - Wikipedia