Rachel Weisz

Born on March 7, 1970, Rachel Hannah Weisz from London is the daughter of an Austrian psychotherapist and a Jewish Hungarian engineer, who had moved to England during World War II. A first-rate student, Rachel studied at the prestigious London Collegiate School and ended up graduating with flying colors from Cambridge University in English Literature.

While on campus, he became involved in amateur theatrical performances, and he formed the Cambridge Talking Tongues group with some classmates, which received several major awards for their plays.

After various roles in British television series, Rachel Weisz made her film debut with the Death Machine sub -product . But the official discoverer of the actress was the veteran Bernardo Bertolucci , who gave her a secondary role in Stolen Beauty , where she was Miranda, a young jewelry designer who has had several lovers. She was later a PhD in Chain Reaction , with Keanu Reeves and Morgan Freeman .

But Rachel Weisz became known on five continents for playing Evelyn, the Egyptologist in The Mummy , alongside Brendan Fraser . She repeated in The Mummy Returns , but not in The Mummy: The Tomb of the Dragon Emperor , because lately she prefers to look for roles in less commercial productions, she was replaced by Maria Bello .

Weisz occasionally plays roles on the stage; In cinema, he excelled as a young soldier in Enemy at the Gates and a mother who falls in love with Hugh Grant ‘s character for the first time , in A Big Boy , where the female lead was Toni Collette . And she also stood out as a skeptical detective in Constantine , with Keanu Reeves, and as a mysterious woman who puts the jury’s verdict up for sale to the highest bidder, in The Jury .

Rachel Weisz’s career took a complete turn after playing the activist destined for a tragic destiny in The Constant Gardener , by Fernando Meirelles , who denounced corruption and lack of scruples in the field of pharmaceutical industries, based on the novel by John Le Carré . For this work she received the Oscar for best secondary. Since then, the British woman has opted for films with a background, directed by great authors, such as Wong Kar Wai , who turned her into the ex-wife of an alcoholic policeman in My Blueberry Nights .

With the Spanish Alejandro Amenábar was Hypatia of Alexandria, a philosopher who remains a virgin to devote her life to science, in Ágora . Weisz has also been directed by Peter Jackson , in The Lovely Bones , where she was the mother of the murdered girl.

Rachel Weisz married the prestigious filmmaker Darren Aronofsky , who directed her in The Source of Life , the less successful film of the person responsible for Black Swan . She was the mother of a son with him in 2006. But in November 2010, the couple announced their separation. Rachel Weisz is currently dating actor Daniel Craig .

As for his professional career, great filmmakers continue to raffle it off. She has been directed by Terence Davies in The Deep Blue Sea , an adaptation of a Terence Rattigan play . Jim Sheridan has made her the lead with her boyfriend, Daniel Craig, in Dream House . And she has filmed with Terrence Malick himself a tape still without a title where Javier Bardem is also present .