[86amanda86]

Date of birth - 7 March 1971
London, England, UK

Height - 5' 7" (1.70 m)

Biography - Rachel Weisz was born on the 7th March, 1971 in London, England to Edith, an Austrian psychoanalyst and George, a Hungarian inventor.

Rachel was a model when she was 14 and began acting during her studies at Cambridge. While there, she formed a theatre company called Talking Tongues, which won the Guardian Award, at the Edinburgh Festival, for its take on Neville Shouthall's Washbag. Rachel went on to star on stage in the lauded Sean Mathias revival of Coward's Design For Living. It was a role that won Rachel a vote for Most Promising Newcomer by the London Critic Circle.

Rachel has starred in many movies, including Mummy, The (1999), Enemy at the Gates (2001) and Stealing Beauty (1996). Rachel can next be seen in the movies, _Shape of Things, The (2002)_ and About a Boy (2002). Rachel is currently living in London and is single, but has dated Oscar-winning director, Sam Mendes.

[b]Trivia[b]

-Last name is pronounced Vice.
-Studied English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge University.
-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 $450,000 London apartment, 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 European Film Promotion.
-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 Pauls Girls School in London. In the same class as fellow actress Emily Mortimer.
-Lives in New York with director Darren Aronofsky (2004)

Personal quotes - "I found myself a sophisticated, educated American. He's not an actor. He's travelled the world. He knows where Europe is, unlike a lot of Americans. He's very cultured, but he's all man."

"You just have to play every scene honestly and forget about a reaction and what the audience is going to think. I think the more seriously you take something, the more funny it might be."

"People find out I'm an actress and I see that 'whore' look flicker across their eyes."

"I find Hollywood really toxic."

"I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans."

Actress - filmography

Barry (2004) (announced) .... Barry
Fountain, The (2005) (pre-production)
Constant Gardener, The (2005) (filming) .... Tessa
Constantine (2005) (post-production) .... Angela Dodson/Isabel Dodson
Daisy Winters (2004) (post-production) .... Daisy's Mother


Envy (2004) .... Debbie Dingman
Runaway Jury (2003) .... Marlee
Confidence (2003) .... Lily
... aka Confidence: After Dark (2003) (UK)
... aka En toute confiance (2003) (Canada: French title)
Shape of Things, The (2003) .... Evelyn
About a Boy (2002) .... Rachel
... aka About a Boy oder: Der Tag der toten Ente (2002) (Germany)
... aka Pour un garçon (2002) (France)
Mummy Returns, The (2001) .... Evelyn Carnahan O'Connell/Princess Nefertiri
Enemy at the Gates (2001) .... Tania Chernova
... aka Duell - Enemy at the Gates (2001) (Germany)
This Is Not an Exit: The Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis (2000) .... Lauren Hynde
Beautiful Creatures (2000) .... Petula
Tube Tales (1999) (TV) .... (segment Rosebud)
Sunshine (1999) .... Greta
... aka Napfény ßze, A (2000) (Hungary)
... aka Sunshine - Ein Hauch von Sonnenschein (2000) (Germany)
Mummy, The (1999) .... Evelyn Carnahan
My Summer with Des (1998) (TV) .... Rosie
I Want You (1998/I) .... Helen
... aka Beloved (1998/II)
Land Girls, The (1998) .... Ag (Agapanthus)
... aka Trois Anglaises en campagne (1998) (France)
Swept from the Sea (1997) .... Amy Foster
... aka Balayé par la mer (1997) (Canada: French title)
Bent (1997) .... Prostitute
Going All the Way (1997) .... Marty Pilcher
Chain Reaction (1996) .... Dr. Lily Sinclair
Stealing Beauty (1996) .... Miranda
... aka Beauté volée (1996) (France)
... aka Io ballo da sola (1996) (Italy)
Death Machine (1995) .... Junior Executive
Seventeen (1994) (TV)
White Goods (1994) (TV) .... Elaine
Dirtysomething (1993) (TV) .... Becca
"Scarlet and the Black, The" (1993) (mini) TV Series .... Mathilde de la Mole




Fan List
1) 86amanda86 - Manda
2) Mandine - Anna

Let me know if you wish to be added. Post away!

[mandine]

Hey add me please! (my name is Anna BTW)

i think Rachel is a great actress!
RAchel was a model wow something i didnt know!

[86amanda86]

Sure thing! Welcome She is great isn't she. I fell in love with her in The Mummy and since then I've been hooked, I most recently saw her in Enemy At The Gates, with Jude Law. It was a fantastic movie and she did a great Job.

[mandine]

Yea i fell in love with Rachel after watching The Mummy,
i all the films, Rachel's in though. i loved Chain Reaction with Morgan Freeman and Keanu Reeves and Runaway Jury was great!

[86amanda86]

both of those were really good. I loved runaway jury. I saw it in the theatre about 6 times...

[mandine]

OMG i never got to watch it in the theater! i was on holiday at the time i have it on video though, i wish i had it on DVD coz of the xtra's.

[86amanda86]

I worked at the dollar movies for a while so I got in free. I see everything thing anyway because my brother is in a wheel chair and he and a guest get in free to all carmike cinemas. Since movies are our passion(literally, we're both in film school) it works out quite well.

[mandine]

OMG ur so lucky thats really cool! and ur in film skool WOW i films, they are literally my life! i have a collection of all my film tickets in a box in my room

[86amanda86]

NO WAY! I DO TOO! my mom started me when I when I was born, so I have every show I've ever been to. I believe my total is at 1,267 stubs....:lol crazy, huh....

[mandine]

OMG!! well i only started a few months ago and my mum has managed to loose a few from cleaning my room but i have around 15 (not including the ones i got frm other countries)

[86amanda86]

hey, its a good start!

[mandine]

yea i guess it is! but OMG u have 1,267 thats alot!

[86amanda86]

yeah it is... like i said, i see just about everything....

[mandine]

Yea i watch just about anything too, but with skool and everything, i just dont have the time really

[LaraCroft01]

I'm happy to see other Rachel fans! We already have a thread for Rachel here

So I'm closing this, feel free to post at the other thread!