Rachel Weisz

Rachel Weisz as Tania in Paramount's Enemy At The Gates - 2001

Biography

Born 03/07/1971

British stage and film actress Rachel Weisz stood out from the pack of emerging U.K. actresses in the 1990s with her exotic, decidedly un-British looks, as well as the fierce intelligence of a woman who had been on a fast track to academia before early stage success altered her path. Weisz founded...
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Awards

  • In 2006, received Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress
  • In 2006, received Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
  • In 2006, received Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

Highlights

  • In 2009, Cast as Blanche DuBois in the West End revival of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire"
  • In 2009, Played a beautiful heiress being coned by Mark Ruffalo and Adrien Brody in the comedy, "The Brothers Bloom"
  • In 2008, Played an ambitious journalist opposite Ryan Reynolds in "Definitely, Maybe"

Family & Companions

  • Darren Aronofsky: Companion (Dating since 2001; became engaged in June 2005)
  • Alessandro Nivola: met during the filming of "I Want You" in 1997; no longer together
  • Neil Morrissey: together from c. 1998; met during the filming of the British TV drama "My Summer With Des"; starred in the British sitcom "Men Behaving Badly"; separated in September 1999

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