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 Coward's 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 big-budget 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 CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2027The Mummy 4 — Evelyn O'Connell
• Vladimir — M, Executive Producer
• Dead Ringers — Elliot Mantle / Beverly Mantle, Executive Producer
• 2021Black Widow — Melina
• What If...? — Melina (voice)
• 2018Disobedience — Ronit Krushka, Producer
• 2018Let's Dance — Segment: "Coffee to Go"
• 2018The Favourite — Lady Sarah
• 2018The Mercy — Clare Crowhurst
• 2017My Cousin Rachel — Rachel
• 2016Complete Unknown — Alice Manning
• 2016Denial — Deborah Lipstadt
• 2016The Light Between Oceans — Hannah Roennfeldt
• 2015The Lobster — Short Sighted Woman
• 2015Youth — Lena Ballinger
• 2014Radiator — Executive Producer
• 2013Oz the Great and Powerful — Evanora
• 2013Regina — Regina Jonas (voice)
• 2012360 — Rose
• 2012The Bourne Legacy — Dr. Marta Shearing
• 2011Dream House — Libby Atenton
• 2011Page Eight — Nancy Pierpan
• 2011The Deep Blue Sea — Hester Collyer
• 2011The Thief — Director, Writer
• 2010The Whistleblower — Kathryn Bolkovac
• 2009Agora — Hypatia
• 2009The Brothers Bloom — Penelope Stamp
• 2009The Lovely Bones — Abigail Salmon
• 2008Definitely, Maybe — Summer Hartley
• 2007Fred Claus — Wanda Blinkowski
• 2007My Blueberry Nights — Sue Lynne
• 2006Eragon — Saphira (voice)
• 2006The Fountain — Isabel / Izzi Creo
• 2005Constantine — Angela Dodson / Isabel Dodson
• 2005The Constant Gardener — Tessa Quayle
• 2004Envy — Debbie Dingman
• 2003Confidence — Lily
• 2003Runaway Jury — Marlee
• 2003The Shape of Things — Evelyn Ann Thompson, Producer
• 2002About a Boy — Rachel
• 2001Enemy at the Gates — Tania Chernova
• 2001The Mummy Returns — Evelyn O'Connell / Nefertiri
• 2000Beautiful Creatures — Petula
• 1999Sunshine — Greta
• 1999The Mummy — Evelyn Carnahan
• 1999Tube Tales — Angela (segment "Rosebud")
• 1998I Want You — Helen
• 1998My Summer With Des — Rosie
• 1998Swept from the Sea — Amy Foster
• 1998The Land Girls — Ag (Agapanthus)
• 1998This Is Not an Exit: The Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis — Lauren Hynde
• 1997Bent — Prostitute
• 1997Going All the Way — Marty Pilcher
• 1996Chain Reaction — Dr. Lily Sinclair
• 1996Stealing Beauty — Miranda Fox
• 1995Death Machine — Junior Executive
• 1994Dirtysomething — Becca
• 1994Seventeen
• 1994White Goods — Elaine
• He-Play She-Play
• Scarlet and Black — Mathilde de la Mole
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
• The Advocates — Sarah Thompson
• Tropical Heat — Joey (as Kenya Campbell)
• The Word
• The Simpsons — Dr. Thurston (voice)
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark
• Inspector Morse — Arabella Baydon
• Screen Two — Becca
• A Special Relationship — Elizabeth Taylor
• Séance on a Wet Afternoon — Myra Savage, Producer

Appearances as themselves (20)

• Marvel Studios Assembled — Self
• 2016Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible — Self
• Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter — Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors — Self
• 2008Unraveling the Legacy of the Mummy — Self
• 2007Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth — Herself
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• 2006Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener — Self
• Parkinson — Self - Guest
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
• 1999Building a Better Mummy — Self
• The Early Show — Self
• The View — Self
• TFI Friday — Self
• The Daily Show — Self - Guest
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
• Late Show with David Letterman — Self - Guest
• The Oscars — Self