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Trivia
Birth name: Rachel Weisz
Date of birth: 7 March 1971
Place of birth: London, England, UK
Height: 5' 7" (1.70 m)
Last name is pronounced "Vice." it is a variant spelling of the German word
weiss, "white".
Her father, George Weisz, is a Hungarian-born inventor whose family fled to England in order to escape Nazi persecution.
Her mother, Edith, is a Vienna-born Austrian psychoanalyst and aspiring actress.
Weisz's father is Jewish and her mother is Catholic, although her mother has also been referred to as
Jewish or having Jewish ancestry.
Weisz has referred to herself as Jewish.
Studied English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge University.
Weisz was educated at North London Collegiate School from which she was expelled.
She was then sent to Benenden School and eventually settled when she was about 13 in St Paul's Girls' School.
She then entered Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where she graduated with a 2:1 in English.
During her university years she appeared in various student productions, co-founding a student drama group called Cambridge Talking Tongues, which went on to win a Guardian Student Drama Award at the Edinburgh Festival for an improvised piece called Slight Possession.
Dated director Sam Mendes. [2001]
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.
Lives in a US$450,000 London apartment and drives a Jaguar.
She has recently become a patron of The X Appeal, which is the official
charity of the Royal College of Radiologists.
Her father invented respirators that supplied their own oxygen and
machines that sense land mines.
1998: Named as one of European films' Shooting Stars by the European
Film Promotion Board.
She was awarded the 1994 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama
Theatre) for Most Promising Newcomer for her performance in Design for
Living.
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).
Ranked #30 in Stuff magazine's 102 Sexiest Women in the World (2002).
Drives an old, black Jaguar 4.2 Sovereign with pepper-pot wheels.
Her Austrian-born mother is of part Italian descent
Is the face of Revlon (2005).
Announced on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" (1992) that she
was five months pregnant and engaged to Darren Aronofsky. [January 6,
2006]
When asked who her idols were, she named Gena Rowlands, Katharine Hepburn, Jack Nicholson, Shirley MacLaine, Ingrid Bergman, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin.
Has starred opposite both Fiennes brothers, with Ralph Fiennes in The Constant Gardener (2005) and Joseph Fiennes in Enemy at the Gates (2001).
Rachel and her fiancé, Darren Aronofsky, became the parents of a son,
Henry Chance on May 31, 2006.
Invited to join AMPAS in 2006.
Rachel has hazel eyes.
Won her Oscar for playing a pregnant woman in The Constant Gardener
(2005) while she was real-life pregnant with her first child.
Rachel has been asked to pose for Playboy Magazine.
Replaced Kate Moss as the new face of the Burberry campaign.
Was a radical feminist at University.
Her favorite movie is Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell's psychedelic 1970
masterpiece Performance (1970).
Rachel considers Harry Houdini her idol.
In a recent interview, Weisz expressed her admiration for Harry Houdini, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jackie Onassis, amongst others, but it is for singer Elvis Presley that she keeps her greatest love
Rachel dislikes camels, most likely after working with them in The Mummy.
Good friends with fellow British actors Jude
Law and Susan Lynch.
Is very good friends with fashion designers Narciso Rodríguez and Donna
Karan.
When Rachel heard she got the leading role for The Mummy, she went straight to a pub to celebrate and got in an argument with a male friend who objected to the fact that she was asked to lose weight for the film.
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.
In 2005, Weisz starred in The Constant Gardener, a film adaptation of a John le Carré thriller of the same title set in the slums of Kibera and Loiyangalani, Kenya.
For this role, Weisz won the 2006 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the 2006 Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress and the 2006 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role.
In her home country, she was recognized as a leading role for the film according to the nomination from the BAFTA Film Awards and winnings from the London Critics Circle Film Awards and British Independent Film Awards.
In 2006, Weisz will star in The Fountain, written and directed by Darren
Aronofsky.
In 2006 she plans to star in a New York production of August Strindberg's Miss Julie, playing the titular role.
Weisz will also have a role the film Eragon, however it is not yet clear who she will play. Many fans believe she will provide the voice of Saphira.
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