54 years old (Born on March 07, 1970)
English actress; She is famous from The Mummy and The Constant Gardener.
Her favorite movie is Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell's psychedelic 1970 masterpiece Performance (1970). Her Austrian-born mother is of part Italian descent Is the face of Revlon (2005). Invited to join AMPAS in 2006. Rachel played the roles of twin sisters Angela and Isabel Dodson in the 2005 film Constantine. She played opposite Keanu Reeves, who she had previously starred with in the 1996 film Chain Reaction. (tv.com)Rachel Weisz's Best Moments
Fun Facts About Rachel Weisz
Is of Hungarian (from her father's side) and Austrian (from mother's side) descent.
Rachel loves listening to the music of Elvis. (tv.com)
Drives an old, black Jaguar 4.2 Sovereign with pepper-pot wheels.
Rachel considers Harry Houdini her idol. (tv.com)
Ranked #30 in Stuff magazine's 102 Sexiest Women in the World (2002).
When asked who her idols were, she named Gena Rowlands, Katharine Hepburn, Jack Nicholson, Shirley MacLaine, Ingrid Bergman, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin.
Is very good friends with fashion designers Narciso Rodru00edguez and Donna Karan.
Rachel's favourite actor is Ewan McGregor and her favourite actress is Susan Lynch. (tv.com)
She was offered the role of "Becky" in Clerks II (2006). She couldn't do it because of scheduling conflicts. The role eventually went to Rosario Dawson.
Rachel was asked a couple of times to pose for Playboy Magazine, but turned the offer down in 2005 because she doesn't like how they retouch their photos. (tv.com)
Dated director Sam Mendes. [2001]
Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#37). [2007].
Rachel provides the voice of the dragon Saphira in the 2006 film Eragon. (tv.com)
Rachel was a presenter at the American leg of Live Earth on July 7, 2007. (tv.com)
Good friends with fellow British actors Jude Law and Susan Lynch.
Educated at the prestigious St Paul's Girls School in London. Was in the same class as actress Emily Mortimer.
Lives in New York with director Darren Aronofsky (2004).
Very good friends with the Fiennes family having worked with both Joseph Fiennes in Enemy at the Gates (2001) and twice with Ralph Fiennes in Sunshine (1999) and The Constant Gardener (2005).
Rachel and her fiancu00e9, Darren Aronofsky, became the parents of a son, Henry Chance on May 31, 2006.
Last name is pronounced "Vice."
She has recently become a patron of The X Appeal, which is the official charity of the Royal College of Radiologists.
Beat out Nicole Kidman for the role of Georgie Jutland in Dirt Music (2009).
Announced on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" (1992) that she was five months pregnant and engaged to Darren Aronofsky. [January 6, 2006]
Ranked #85 on Askmen.com's 100 Most Desirable Women in the World (2008).
Was offered a large part in the Richard Gere movie King David (1985) when she was only 14. Her parents wouldn't let her do it.
Studied English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge University.
Is semi fluent in German.
1998: Named as one of European films' Shooting Stars by the European Film Promotion Board.
Was a radical feminist at University.
Has a younger sister named Minnie Weisz.
Rachel used to smoke cigarettes. (tv.com)
Rachel's favourite film is Performance. (tv.com)
Replaced Kate Moss as the new face of the Burberry campaign.
While filming The Mummy (1999) and The Mummy Returns (2001), she formed a strong friendship with fellow co-stars John Hannah and Oded Fehr. They remain good friends.
Weisz, a British citizen by birth, became a naturalized American citizen in 2011. (en.wikipedia.org)
Won her Oscar for playing a pregnant woman in The Constant Gardener (2005) while she was pregnant in real-life with her first child.
Lives in a US$450,000 London apartment and drives a Jaguar.
Studying English at Cambridge University, Weisz formed the Talking Tongues theater company and at 1991's Edinburgh Festival won a student drama award for a play she wrote and acted in.
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.
Rachel chose not to reprise her role as Evelyn in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor as she did not like the script. Maria Bello will take her place. (tv.com)
Had a role in the film Smart People (2008), but dropped out before filming began. As a result, Sarah Jessica Parker was given her role.
Her father invented respirators that supplied their own oxygen and machines that sense land mines.
She was awarded the 1994 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre) for Most Promising Newcomer for her performance in Design for Living.