Rachel Weisz began working as model to the 14 years and decided to prove luck in the action while it studied in the University of Cambridge. There, it formed a theater company. The film By love to the art was his first experience like producer. It had performed in plays of London and New York in the opening of the work of the same title of Neil LaBute. By its interpretation in “for Design Living” of Noel Coward, directed by They are Mathias, gained the Prize to the Best Actress Nobel of the Circle of Dramatic Critics of London.
* Date Birth: 07/03/1970* Birthplace: London
* Filmografí Rachel Weisz :
* Ágora 2009, Actor/Actress.
* Definitively, perhaps 2008, Actor/Actress.
* The source of life 2007, Actor/Actress.
* Fred Claus: The brother gamberro of Santa Claus 2007, Actor/Actress.
* My Blueberry Nights 2007, Actor/Actress.
* Faithful gardener 2005, Actor/Actress.
* Envy 2004, Actor/Actress.
* Constantine 2004, Actor/Actress.
* Confidence 2003, Actor/Actress.
* Jury 2003, Actor/Actress.
* By love to art 2003, Actor/Actress.
* By love to art 2003, Production.
* A great boy 2002, Actor/Actress.
* The return of momia 2001, Actor/Actress.
* Beautiful creatures 2001, Actor/Actress.
* Enemy to doors 2000, Actor/Actress.
* The Mummy (momia) 1999, Actor/Actress.
* Sunshine 1999, Actor/Actress.
* I Want You 1998, Actor/Actress.
* My wild summer 1998, Actor/Actress.
* Loves in the days of war 1997, Actor/Actress.
* The man who came from sea 1997, Actor/Actress.
* Chain reaction 1996/Actress.
Career :
Having already worked for television, with parts in major UK series such as Inspector Morse (1993), Weisz started her cinema career in 1995 with Chain ReactionBernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty. She followed this work with more English films including My Summer with Des, Swept from the Sea,The Land Girls, and Michael Winterbottom's I Want You. Although she received favourable critical recognition for her work to this point, her breakout into wide audience recognition came from a popular serio-comic horror movie The Mummy, in which she played the lead female role alongside Brendan Fraser. She followed this up with two hits, The Mummy Returns (2001), which grossed higher than the original, and About a Boy (2002) with Hugh Grant. Since then, her other film work has included Runaway Jury (2003) and Constantine (2005). and then appeared in In 2005, Weisz starred in Fernando Meirelles's The Constant Gardener, a film adaptation of a John le Carré thriller of the same title set in the slums of Kibera and Loiyangalani, Kenya. For this performance, Weisz won the 2006 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the 2006 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and the 2006 Screen Actors Guild AwardBAFTA awards and winnings from the London Critics Circle Film Awards and British Independent Film Awards. for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role. In her home country, she was recognised as a leading role for the film according to the nomination from the The same year, she starred in The Fountain and also provided the voice for Saphira in the fantasy film Eragon. Her subsequent films include the Wong Kar-wai-directed drama My Blueberry Nights (in which she played an "anti-Southern belle") and director Rian Johnson's The Brothers Bloom, in which she plays a wealthy American woman targeted by two con man brothers (Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo).
She plays the lead role of Hypatia of Alexandria in the historical drama film Agora, scheduled to be released in December 2009. Her breakthrough role was that of Gilda in Welsh director Sean Mathias's 1995 West End revival of Noel Coward's 1933 play Design for Living at the Gielgud Theatre. Her other stage work includes the role of Catherine in a London production of Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer and Evelyn in Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things at the Almeida Theatre (also film) at its, then, temporary location in London's Kings Cross.
In 2009 she is currently playing Blanche DuBois in a Donmar revival of A Streetcar Named Desire.On 7 July 2007, Weisz presented at the American leg of Live Earth. She is represented by Independent Models in London.
She plays the lead role of Hypatia of Alexandria in the historical drama film Agora, scheduled to be released in December 2009. Her breakthrough role was that of Gilda in Welsh director Sean Mathias's 1995 West End revival of Noel Coward's 1933 play Design for Living at the Gielgud Theatre. Her other stage work includes the role of Catherine in a London production of Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer and Evelyn in Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things at the Almeida Theatre (also film) at its, then, temporary location in London's Kings Cross.
In 2009 she is currently playing Blanche DuBois in a Donmar revival of A Streetcar Named Desire.On 7 July 2007, Weisz presented at the American leg of Live Earth. She is represented by Independent Models in London.
