"I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people."
Rachel Hannah Weisz is an English actor, born 7 March 1970 in Westminster, London, best known for her roles in such films as the first two films of The Mummy Trilogy, Constantine, Stealing Beauty, The Brothers Bloom and Enemy at the Gates. Also playing the protagonist of the very controversial movie Agora. She won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for The Constant Gardener. She was engaged to film director Darren Aronofsky, and had a role in his movie The Fountain. They have a son.
She married Daniel Craig in June 2011. In September 2018 Weisz gave birth to their daughter.
Filmography
- Stealing Beauty (1996)
- Chain Reaction (1996)
- The Mummy (1999)
- The Mummy Returns (2001)
- Enemy at the Gates (2001)
- About a Boy (2002)
- Runaway Jury (2003)
- Constantine (2005)
- The Constant Gardener (2005)
- The Fountain (2006)
- Eragon (2007)
- Fred Claus (2007)
- Definitely, Maybe (2008)
- The Brothers Bloom (2008)
- The Lovely Bones (2009)
- Agora (2009)
- The Whistleblower (2010)
- The Simpsons (2010)
- Page Eight (2011)
- Dream House (2011)
- The Deep Blue Sea (2011)
- The Bourne Legacy (2012)
- Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)
- The Lobster (2015)
- Denial (2016)
- Disobedience (2017)
- The Favourite (2018)
- Black Widow (2021)
Weisz's roles and works contain examples of:
- Brainy Brunette: She usually plays these types of characters.
- Hollywood Old: Played Hypatia in the film Agora when she was nearly forty (but of course is Older Than They Look). Even when Hypatia is sixty towards the end.
- Hot Scientist: A lot of her roles have her playing this, or else a Hot Librarian.
- I Am Very British: She'll usually posh up her voice just a little on-screen, but she actually has this type of accent in real life.
- It's Pronounced "Tro-PAY": Her last name is pronounced like 'vice'. This hasn't stopped some people from saying 'wice' or 'wysk'.
