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Rachel Weisz (pronounced "vice") is a British list
of notable actresses|actress who was born in
London on March 7, 1971. Both her mother and her
father are Jewish and, in the late 1930s, were
brought from Vienna and Hungary respectively to
England to escape persecution by the Nazis.

Weisz read English literature|English Literature
at Trinity Hall, Cambridge|Trinity Hall,
University of Cambridge|Cambridge. During her
college years she already appeared in various
student productions, co-founding a student drama
group called Cambridge Talking Tongues, which went
on to win a The Guardian|Guardian Student Drama
Award at the Edinburgh Fringe|Edinburgh Festival
for an improvised piece called Slight Possession.
Her breakthrough role was that of Gilda in Sean
Mathias's 1995 West End revival of Noel
Coward|Noël Coward's 1933 play Design for Living
at the Gielgud Theatre.

Having already worked for television, Weisz
started her cinema career in 1996 with Bernardo
Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty. Since then she has
starred in a number of films including The Mummy
(1999 movie)|The Mummy (1999), About a Boy (2002),
and Runaway Jury  (2003). In 2001 she returned to
the stage to play Evelyn in Neil LaBute's The
Shape of Things at the Almeida Theatre (also
film).

==Filmography==
*Barry (2005) 
*The Fountain (2005) 
*The Constant Gardener (2005) 
*Constantine (movie)|Constantine (2005)
*Envy (movie)|Envy (2004)
*Runaway Jury (2003)
*Confidence (2003)
*The Shape of Things (2003)
*About a Boy (2002)
*The Mummy Returns (2001)
*Enemy at the Gates (2001)
*Beautiful Creatures (2000)
*This Is Not an Exit:  The Fictional World of Bret
Easton Ellis (2000)
*Tube Tales (1999) (TV)
*Sunshine (1999)
*The Mummy (1999 movie)|The Mummy (1999)
*My Summer with Des (1998) (TV)
*I Want You (1998)
*The Land Girls (1998)
*Swept from the Sea (1997)
*Bent (1997)
*Going All the Way (1997)
*Chain Reaction (film)|Chain Reaction (1996)
*Stealing Beauty (1996)
*Death Machine (1995)
*Seventeen (1994) (TV)
*White Goods (1994) (TV)
*The Scarlet and the Black (1993) (mini series)
*Dirtysomething (1993) (TV)

==References==
* Weisz, Rachel (1998).
"http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Set/2851/intca
m.htm My time at Cambridge". Cam.
* Lane, Harriet (June 13, 1999).
http://film.guardian.co.uk/Feature_Story/interview
/0,5365,60847,00.html Toast of the tomb. Guardian.

==External links==
*imdb name|id=0001838|name=Rachel Weisz
*http://www.rachel-weisz.net Rachel Weisz Paradise
*http://www.westlord.com/rachel-weisz/ Rachel
Weisz Website at WestLord