Rachel Weisz movies

She became known after her roles in the Hollywood films The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, and has since continued appearing in major film roles.BiographyEarly lifeWeisz was born in London, England and grew up in Hampstead. Her father, George Weisz, is a Hungarian-born inventor whose family fled to England to escape Nazi persecution. Her mother, Edith, is a Vienna-born Austrian psychoanalyst and aspiring actress.

Weiszs father is Jewish and her mother has been referred to as either Catholic, Jewish, or having Jewish ancestry. Weisz refers to herself as Jewish.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 Pauls 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.
Her breakthrough role was that of Gilda in Welsh director Sean Mathiass 1995 West End revival of Noel Cowards 1933 play Design for Living at the Gielgud Theatre. Having already worked for television, with strong parts in major UK series such as Inspector Morse (1993), Weisz started her cinema career in 1995 with Chain Reaction and then appeared in Bernardo Bertoluccis Stealing Beauty.

Rachel Weisz Movies

All movies starring Rachel Weisz.

• About a Boy
• Confidence
• Constantine
• Definitely, Maybe
• Enemy at the Gates
• Envy
• Eragon
• Runaway Jury
• Sin City 2
• The Fountain