Rachel Weisz

Rachel Hannah Weisz vaɪs born 7 March 1970 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 Weisz began acting in stage and television productions in the early 1990s and made her film debut in Death Machine 1994 She won a Critics Circle Theatre Award for her role in the 1994 revival of Noël Cowards play Design for Living and went on to appear in the 1999 Donmar Warehouse production of Tennessee Williams drama Suddenly Last Summer Her film breakthrough came with her starring role as Evelyn Carnahan in the Hollywood action films The Mummy 1999 and The Mummy Returns 2001 Weisz went on to star in several films of the 2000s including Enemy at the Gates 2001 About a Boy 2002 Runaway Jury 2003 Constantine 2005 The Fountain 2006 Definitely Maybe 2008 The Lovely Bones 2009 and The Whistleblower 2010 For her performance as an activist in the 2005 thriller The Constant Gardener she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and for playing Blanche DuBois in a 2009 revival of A Streetcar Named Desire she won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress In the 2010s Weisz continued to star in bigbudget films such as the action film The Bourne Legacy 2012 and the fantasy film Oz the Great and Powerful 2013 and achieved critical acclaim for her performances in the independent films The Deep Blue Sea 2011 Denial 2016 and The Favourite 2018 For her portrayal of Sarah Churchill in The Favourite she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and received a second Academy Award nomination Weisz portrayed Melina Vostokoff in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Black Widow 2021 and starred as twin obstetricians in the thriller miniseries Dead Ringers 2023 Description above from the Wikipedia article Wendell Pierce licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia