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Rachel Weisz
Actress
Female
Born
Mar 7, 1970
Age
43
Hometown
London
Alma Mater
Cambridge University
Other Names
Campbell, Kenya
Rachel Hannah Weisz is an English film and theatre actress and former fashion model. She started her acting career at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where she co-founded the theatrical group Cambridge Talking Tongues. The group was awarded the Student Drama… Read More
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Rachel Weisz
Age 43
parents
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George WeiszFather -
Edith Ruth WeiszMother
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CHILDHOOD
1970
Birth
Born on March 7, 1970.
TEENAGE

1984
14 Years Old
Known for being an "English rose" due to her appearance, Weisz started modelling when she was fourteen. In 1984, she gained public attention when she turned down an offer to star in King David, along with Richard Gere.
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TWENTIES
1991
21 Years Old
It won a Guardian Student Drama Award at the 1991 Edinburgh Fringe Festival for an improvised piece called Slight Possession, directed by David Farr.
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1992
22 Years Old
She appeared on the 1992 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.

1994
24 Years Old
Weisz started her film career with a minor role in the 1994 film Death Machine, but her first major role came in the 1996 film Chain Reaction, which also starred Keanu Reeves and Morgan Freeman.
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1999
29 Years Old
The same year, her international breakthrough came with the 1999 adventure film The Mummy, in which she played the female lead opposite Brendan Fraser.
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THIRTIES

2000
30 Years Old
In 2000, she portrayed Petula in the film Beautiful Creatures, following this up with 2001's Enemy at the Gates, and the 2002 comedy-drama About a Boy, with Hugh Grant, based on Nick Hornby's 1998 novel.

2003
33 Years Old
In 2003 she played Marlee in the adaptation of John Grisham's legal thriller novel The Runaway Jury, along with Dustin Hoffman, John Cusack and Gene Hackman; as well as starring in the film adaptation of the romantic comedy-drama play The Shape of Things.
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2005
35 Years Old
Her next appearance, in 2005, 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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In 2006, she starred in Darren Aronofsky's romantic drama The Fountain.
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2007
37 Years Old
Her subsequent films include the 2007 Wong Kar-wai drama My Blueberry Nights, and Rian Johnson's 2008 caper film The Brothers Bloom, alongside Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo.

In 2009 she played the lead role of Hypatia of Alexandria in the historical drama film Agora, a Spanish production directed by Alejandro Amenábar. The New York Times called her portrayal "adept", noting that she imparted "a sympathetic presence". Weisz starred in the film The Whistleblower, which debuted at the Toronto Film Festival in 2010.
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FORTIES
In January 2010, the Critics' Circle Theatre Awards in London named her Best Actress of 2009, for her performance as Blanche Dubois in the Donmar revival of A Streetcar Named Desire.
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