Rachel Weisz - interesting facts

Childhood and youth

Actress Rachel Weisz was born on March 7, 1970 into a Jewish family. The ancestors of the future actress lived in Italy, Hungary, and Austria. Rachel was born and raised in London.

The family of inventor George Weiss and his wife, psychoanalyst Edith Root, raised two children. Rachel's sister Minnie subsequently mastered the profession of an artist. The future actress has only warm memories of her childhood. There was always a friendly atmosphere in the house; interesting people often came to visit my parents. The girl absorbed this atmosphere and studied at school with pleasure.

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Rachel Weisz in the film “The Mummy”
At the age of 14, Rachel tried herself as a model, but this hobby never became a profession. After graduating from school, the girl entered Cambridge University, where she studied English literature. Weiss would probably have become a good teacher if it weren’t for the student theater.

The girl took part in amateur theater performances and quickly became the star of the group. At the Edinburgh Festival, the theater studio's production brought the creators a prize. In one of the performances, critics drew attention to the talented student and praised Weiss. At that moment, Rachel realized that acting was her calling.

Childhood

Rachel Hannah Weiss, eldest daughter of George and Edith Weiss, was born March 7, 1970, in Westminster. The actress spent her childhood in Hampstead, where she graduated from primary school and then entered the prestigious St Paul's School.

Rachel Weisz in her youth

Rachel grew up in a wealthy Jewish family, her father was a technical engineer, whose parents emigrated to England from Hungary, and her mother was a psychotherapist, in whose veins flowed the blood of Austrian Jews and Italians.

George Weiss professed Judaism, and Edith was a Catholic. As a result, they raised Rachel and her younger sister to respect all religious movements, instilling in the girls the will to make free choices.

Rachel grew up as a freedom-loving person from childhood

Liberal upbringing and complete trust on the part of her parents influenced the formation of the character of the actress, who from a young age strived for independence. In 1984, Rachel became the winner of a beauty pageant in North London and attracted attention to her person by refusing an offer from agents to audition for a role in the film King David, in which Richard Gere played.

This is how young Weiss ended up in the British media, which allowed themselves statements in the spirit of “a not very smart girl missed her chance.” Much later, the actress will tell you that she was simply afraid to go to the audition because she didn’t see herself as an actress then.

At Trinity College, Rachel became interested in theater

At Trinity College, Rachel became interested in theater and appeared in many Cambridge Talking Tongues productions. In 1991, the troupe, in which her university friends Sacha Baron Cohen and Ben Miller played along with Rachel, received a prize at the Edinburgh Festival.

Movies

Rachel Weisz began acting in the late 80s. His debut was episodic roles in TV series. In 1994, the actress appeared in the horror film “Death Machine” about a combat robot that failed.

Weiss was 25 years old when Bernardo Bertolucci invited her to the film Stealing Beauty. The role was small, but enough for Rachel to be noticed by directors and producers. The project was nominated for the prestigious Palme d'Or award.

After a bright takeoff, directors began to offer the actress leading roles. In 1996, with the participation of Rachel, the thriller “Chain Reaction” was released, in which Keanu Reeves and Morgan Freeman also played.

Weiss’s truly high-profile work was Stephen Sommers’s “The Mummy,” where the performer played the role of Evelyn, a library employee. The actress had to stock up on remarkable courage during the filming: in the scene where she was surrounded by rats and locusts, the representatives of the fauna were real, and not drawn using computer graphics.

The film was a success at the box office, and Rachel gained international popularity.

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Rachel Weisz and Darren Aronofsky
Two years later, work followed in the second film of the franchise, “The Mummy Returns,” but Weisz refused to star in “The Mummy 3,” the next sequel to the science-fiction action film, despite the substantial fee promised for her appearance in the frame—$ 3 million

In the military film about the Battle of Stalingrad, Enemy at the Gates, which was worked on by filmmakers from four countries - the USA, Great Britain, Germany and Ireland, Weiss played the role of nurse Tanya Chernova. The film, based on the book of the same name by William Craig, received mixed reviews, some viewers liked it, and Stalingrad veterans living at that time were outraged by the inaccuracies in the film and demanded that it be banned.

Rachel's talent grew stronger and revealed itself with each new role. The actress played in the family drama “My Boy” in an ensemble with Hugh Grant, Nicholas Hoult and Toni Collette. The film, based on the work of Nick Hornby, was nominated for an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a Bafta.

In order to prepare for her role in the mystical film “Constantine: Lord of Darkness,” the artist had to spend a lot of time in the morgue.

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Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams in the film “Disobedience”
Then there was filming in the political drama “The Constant Gardener” - for this role Rachel Weisz received the coveted Oscar statuette, the Screen Actors Guild Award and the Golden Globe.

The actress played the character Isabelle, a terminally ill woman, in the parable film “The Fountain,” directed by her common-law husband Darren Aronofsky.

Wong Kar-wai, who invited Rachel to play the role of Sue Lynn in the melodrama My Blueberry Nights, planned to shoot the film sequentially, but changed his principles. The actress was preparing to give birth and needed some time to get into shape, so her scenes were filmed last.

A significant work for Weiss was the main role in the drama “Agora”. The actress embodied the image of a historical figure - the first female scientist Hypatia of Alexandria, who lived in the 4th century AD, who is believed to have invented a device for measuring the density of liquids - a hydrometer.

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Rachel Weisz in the film “Black Widow”
The highlight of the actress’s creative biography was her role in the film adaptation of Terence Rettigen’s play “Deep Blue Sea,” where she was paired with the eminent Briton Tom Hiddleston. The project brought the performer a nomination for the Golden Globe in the category “Best Actress”.

Rachel is a prominent figure in European cinema and Hollywood. Her fame relates to her achievements in the acting field and production experience. Weiss has already participated in the creation of the films “The Image of Things” and “Radiator” as a producer.

Another project was the film “Disobedience,” the filming of which completed in 2021. Rachel worked on it as a producer and leading lady. Weiss's partner on the stage was actress Rachel McAdams, according to whom the drama was conceived in order to show how different women can be. The film premiered as part of the Toronto International Film Festival.

In the historical film “The Favorite,” Rachel Weisz played Sarah Churchill, who strives to become Queen Anne’s close friend. In an interview, the actress said that preparing for filming required her to master the skills of shooting a gun and riding a horse. For her work in the project, the celebrity received the Hollywood Film Festival prize in the category “Best Supporting Actress.”

Personal life

Many viewers are interested in how Rachel Weisz manages to so believably convey the passion of a woman in love on screen. It turned out that such passions existed in the artist’s life.

The actress's first great love was director Sam Mendes. The lovers seemed like a harmonious couple. But Sam's wife was Kate Winslet, the mother of his child. The director's family life did not work out in this union.

The actress's second passion was Darren Aronofsky. Gradually, the relationship turned into family status, although without official registration. In 2006, Weiss gave birth to her son Henry. Fans of the acting couple were waiting for a wedding that never took place.

On the set of the film “House of Dreams,” Rachel starred with Daniel Craig, who plays James Bond. The actors met in their youth on the stage and were friends for a long time, but this collaboration turned out to be fateful.

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Rachel Weisz and her husband Daniel Craig
The romance broke out quickly, but the lovers hid the relationship from their colleagues and friends. Both were not free. Feelings took over: at the end of 2010, Rachel Weisz and Darren Aronofsky officially announced that they were breaking up. Darren had a hard time with the breakup, but gradually got used to the idea. The director still takes an active part in raising his son.

In June 2011, Rachel married Craig. It looks like the actress has finally found her man. As Weiss argued, over the years comes the understanding that happiness needs to remain in silence. Therefore, Rachel does not maintain accounts on social networks, including Instagram, and photos of Weiss and her husband do not appear in the press at all, with the exception of photographs taken at official events.

In September 2021, the celebrity couple entered a new chapter in their personal lives, helped by the birth of their daughter. In an interview, the actress said that children make her very happy, but she cannot be a strict mother, this is hampered by her soft character and passion for the role of a parent.

Personal life of Rachel Weisz

The famous British woman's first boyfriend was Darren Aronofsky, for his sake she moved to New York and gave birth to a son, Henry, in 2006. The relationship between the actress and director lasted until 2010. In an interview during this period, Rachel noted that she would most likely never get married because she did not believe that she could find true love.

Rachel Weisz and Darren Aronofsky

Despite her skepticism, love still came to her in the person of Daniel Craig, whom she had known for many years. Feelings between the actors flared up while working on the film “House of Dreams,” and in the summer of 2011 they got married.

Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig

In 2021, news began to appear that the actress was expecting a child, and this turned out to be true: their daughter was born in the fall of 2018, but the happy parents are not yet ready to name her.

Rachel Weisz

At the time of the girl's birth, Rachel was 48 years old, and Mr. Bond had already celebrated his fiftieth birthday.

Rachel Weisz now

Invaluable past experience and public recognition now play an important role in Rachel’s rapidly growing filmography.

In the summer of 2021, the premiere of the fantastic film “Black Widow” took place - the second film in the Marvel universe about female superheroes, where Weiss had the opportunity to embody the image of the friend of the main character Malena Vostokova.

Despite the espionage intrigues in the frame and the ornateness of the complex plot, the new experience for the actress was not stunts and scenes with weapons, but collaboration with animals - pigs, which are raised by her character, who at some point appears in the guise of a scientist.

Biography of Rachel Weisz

Actress Rachel Weisz, the beautiful and tragic Hypatia from Agora and the controversial Tessa from The Constant Gardener, received popular love in the early 2000s, playing Evelyn in The Mummy, and was repeatedly named one of the most beautiful women on the planet, who is the age seems to only add to the charm.

Pictured: Rachel Weisz

Filmography

• 1995 — “Death Machine”
• 1996 — “Elusive Beauty”
• 1999 — “The Mummy”
• 2001 — “Enemy at the Gates”
• 2003 — “Scam”
• 2005 — “Constantine: Lord of Darkness”
• 2005 — “The Constant Gardener”
• 2008 — “The Brothers Bloom”
• 2009 — “Agora”
• 2010 — “Snitch”
• 2011 — “Deep Blue Sea”
• 2013 — “Oz the Great and Powerful”
• 2015 — “Youth”
• 2017 — “Disobedience”
• 2018 — “Race of the Century”
• 2018 — “The Favorite”
• 2021 — “Black Widow”

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