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Rachel Hannah Weisz is a British actress. Known for her roles in independent films and blockbusters, she has received several awards, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Laurence Olivier Award.
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Born 7 March 1970 · Q134077
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Weisz starred in and executive produced the Prime Video miniseries remake Dead Ringers, earning a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film
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Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for The Favourite (2019).
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Weisz played the cutthroat advisor Lady Sarah Churchill in The Favourite, winning the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award, Golden Globe Award, the Critics' Ch
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Starring Weisz and Rachel McAdams
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Weisz starred in My Cousin Rachel, a drama based on Daphne du Maurier's novel, and in 2018 co-starred in a British biographical film about sailor Donald Crowhurst, The Mercy, directed by James Marsh
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Appeared in the drama film The Light Between Oceans, and portrayed Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt in Denial, a film based on Lipstadt's book, and directed by Mick Jackson
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Appeared in drama film Youth and in science fiction film The Lobster
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Weisz starred on Broadway alongside her husband, Daniel Craig, in a revival of Harold Pinter's Betrayal
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Awarded New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress for The Deep Blue Sea (2012).
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Fronted the advertising campaign for Bulgari's Jasmin Noir fragrance
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A British citizen by birth, Weisz became a naturalised American citizen in 2011.
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Awarded Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress (2010).
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“As a child in North London it never crossed my mind that I would ever play the Wicked Witch of the East.”
“I think the only way you can successfully be a mum and an actress is by not carrying around the burden of the character. Between the time the director says "Action" and "Cut," it's all true for me. But when I stop saying the lines, it's not true anymore.”
They began dating in December 2010 and married on 22 June 2011 in a private New York ceremony, with four guests in attendance, including Weisz's son and Craig's daughter.
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“I was kind of a tomboy climbing trees so it never crossed my mind, no.”
Played the lead role of Hypatia of Alexandria in the historical drama film Agora, a Spanish production directed by Alejandro Amenábar
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Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role for The Constant Gardener (2006).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Constant Gardener (2006).
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Burberry's creative director Christopher Bailey chose Weisz for an advertising campaign photographed by Mario Testino; she later did another campaign for the brand in 2023
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Received the BAFTA Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year
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Weisz starred in American filmmaker Darren Aronofsky's romantic drama The Fountain
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for The Constant Gardener (2005).
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Awarded British Independent Film Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a British Independent Film for The Constant Gardener (2005).
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Was in Fernando Meirelles's The Constant Gardener, a film adaptation of a John le Carré thriller set in the slums of Kibera and Loiyangalani, Kenya
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Weisz appeared in the comedy Envy
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Played Marlee in the adaptation of John Grisham's legal thriller novel The Runaway Jury; and starred in the film adaptation of the romantic comedy-drama play The Shape of Things
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Awarded Theatre World Award (2002).
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Which grossed an estimated $433 million worldwide, (equivalent to $787 million in 2025 dollars) higher than the original's $260 million (equal to $502 million in 2025 dollars)
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Weisz appeared in Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things at the Almeida Theatre, then temporarily located in London's King's Cross, for which she received a Theatre World Award
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Weisz began dating filmmaker and producer Darren Aronofsky
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Portrayed Petula in the film Beautiful Creatures, followed by her portrayal of Tania Chernova in 2001's Enemy at the Gates, and the 2002 comedy-drama About a Boy, with Hugh Grant, based on Nick Hornby's 1998 novel
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Weisz played Greta in the historical film Sunshine
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Played the role of Catherine in the Donmar Warehouse production of Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer, What's on Stage called her "captivating", stating that she brought "a degree of credibility to a difficult
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Weisz appeared in the television film Advocates II, followed by roles in the Inspector Morse episode "Twilight of the Gods", and the BBC's steamy period drama Scarlet and Black, alongside Ewan McGregor
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Weisz went up to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, taking a 2:1 in English
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Gained public attention when she turned down an offer to star in King David with Richard Gere
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Born 1970-03-07.
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Before WW2, her parents as children had come to the UK to escape the Nazis
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