Rachel Weisz
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Rachel Hannah Weisz (born 7 March 1970) is an English film and theatre actress and fashion model. She started her acting career at Trinity Hall, Cambridge University, where she co-founded the theatrical group Cambridge Talking Tongues. The group was awarded the Student Drama Award for the improvised piece Slight Possession during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe by The Guardian.
Weisz started working in television, appearing in Inspector Morse, the British miniseries The Scarlet and the Black, and the television movie Advocates II. She made her film debut in the 1994 film Death Machine, but her breakthrough role came in the 1996 movie Chain reaction, leading to a high-profile role as Evelyn Carnahan-O'Connell in the films The Mummy, in 1999, and The Mummy Returns in 2001. Other notable films featuring Weisz are Enemy at the Gates, About a Boy, Constantine, The Fountain and The Constant Gardener, for which she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the Golden Globe ... Show more...
Rachel Hannah Weisz (born 7 March 1970) is an English film and theatre actress and fashion model. She started her acting career at Trinity Hall, Cambridge University, where she co-founded the theatrical group Cambridge Talking Tongues. The group was awarded the Student Drama Award for the improvised piece Slight Possession during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe by The Guardian.
Weisz started working in television, appearing in Inspector Morse, the British miniseries The Scarlet and the Black, and the television movie Advocates II. She made her film debut in the 1994 film Death Machine, but her breakthrough role came in the 1996 movie Chain reaction, leading to a high-profile role as Evelyn Carnahan-O'Connell in the films The Mummy, in 1999, and The Mummy Returns in 2001. Other notable films featuring Weisz are Enemy at the Gates, About a Boy, Constantine, The Fountain and The Constant Gardener, for which she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role.
Weisz also worked on theatre. Her stage breakthrough was the 1994 revival of Noel Coward's play Design for Living, which earned her the 'London Critics' Circle Award for the most promising newcomer. Weisz's performances also include the 1999 Donmar Warehouse production of Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer, and the 2006 revival of A Streetcar Named Desire. Her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in the latter play earned her the Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Actress of 2009. Show less...
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Let's Dance (2018)
As: Segment: "Coffee to Go"
Justin Peck, the New York City Ballet's resident choreographer, created a series of dances for 2018's best actors. The scenarios put everyday characters in familiar situations: packed into a subway car, stuck in a doctor's office, caught in downpour. But once they start moving, the actors turn our common experiences into welcome moments of enchantment.
Runtime: 10 min.
Directed by: Justin Peck
Stars: Emma Stone | Olivia Colman | Rachel Weisz | Julia Roberts | Ethan Hawke
The Favourite (2018)
As: Sarah Churchill
In early 18th century England, a frail Queen Anne occupies the throne and her close friend Lady Sarah governs the country in her stead. When a new servant Abigail arrives, her charm endears her to Sarah.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Yorgos Lanthimos
Stars: Emma Stone | Olivia Colman | Rachel Weisz | Nicholas Hoult | Mark Gatiss
The Mercy (2017)
As: Clare Crowhurst
Yachtsman Donald Crowhurst's disastrous attempt to win the 1968 Golden Globe Race ends up with him creating an outrageous account of traveling the world alone by sea.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: James Marsh
Stars: David Thewlis | Colin Firth | Simon McBurney | Rachel Weisz | Ken Stott
Disobedience (2017)
As: Ronit Krushka
A woman learns about the death of her Orthodox Jewish father, a rabbi. She returns home and has romantic feelings rekindled for her best childhood friend, who is now married to her cousin.
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Sebastián Lelio
Stars: Rachel McAdams | Rachel Weisz | Alessandro Nivola | Cara Horgan | Liza Sadovy
My Cousin Rachel (2017)
As: Rachel Ashley
A young Englishman plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, believing that she murdered his guardian. But his feelings become complicated as he finds himself falling under the beguiling spell of her charms.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Roger Michell
Stars: Rachel Weisz | Pierfrancesco Favino | Holliday Grainger | Iain Glen | Sam Claflin
Denial (2016)
As: Deborah Lipstadt
Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: Mick Jackson
Stars: Andrew Scott | Timothy Spall | Tom Wilkinson | Rachel Weisz | Jack Lowden
The Light Between Oceans (2016)
As: Hannah Roennfeldt
A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.
Runtime: 133 min.
Directed by: Derek Cianfrance
Stars: Rachel Weisz | Bryan Brown | Michael Fassbender | Jack Thompson | Alicia Vikander
The Lobster (2015)
As: Short Sighted Woman
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: Yorgos Lanthimos
Stars: Colin Farrell | Léa Seydoux | Ben Whishaw | Rachel Weisz | Ariane Labed
Youth (2015)
As: Lena
YOUTH explores the lifelong bond between two friends vacationing in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder retirement. While Fred has no plans to resume his musical career despite the urging of his loving daughter Lena, Mick is intent on finishing the screenplay for what may be his last important film for his muse Brenda. And where will inspiration lead their younger friend Jimmy, an actor grasping ...
Runtime: 124 min.
Directed by: Paolo Sorrentino
Stars: Michael Caine | Paul Dano | Harvey Keitel | Rachel Weisz | Mark Kozelek
Oz: The Great and Powerful (2013)
As: Evanora
Oscar Diggs, a small-time circus illusionist and con-artist, is whisked from Kansas to the Land of Oz where the inhabitants assume he's the great wizard of prophecy, there to save Oz from the clutches of evil.
Runtime: 130 min.
Directed by: Sam Raimi
Stars: Michelle Williams | James Franco | Mila Kunis | Zach Braff | Rachel Weisz
The Bourne Legacy (2012)
As: Dr. Marta Shearing
New CIA operative, Aaron Cross experiences life-or-death stakes that have been triggered by the previous actions of Jason Bourne.
Runtime: 135 min.
Directed by: Tony Gilroy
Stars: Edward Norton | Stacy Keach | Scott Glenn | Jeremy Renner | Rachel Weisz
360 (2012)
As: Rose
Inspired by Arthur Schnitzler's classic La Ronde, screenwriter Peter Morgan and director Fernando Meirelles' 360 combines a modern and dynamic roundelay of stories into one, linking characters from different cities and countries in a vivid, suspenseful and deeply moving tale of love in the 21st century. Starting in Vienna, the film beautifully weaves through Paris, London, Bratislava, Rio, Denver and ...
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Fernando Meirelles
Stars: Jude Law | Rachel Weisz | Anthony Hopkins | Moritz Bleibtreu | Ben Foster
Dream House (2011)
As: Libby Atenton
Publisher, Will Atenton quits a lucrative job in New York to relocate his wife, Libby and their daughters to a quaint town in New England. However, as they settle into their home the Atentons discover that a woman and her children were murdered there, and the surviving husband is the town's prime suspect. With help from a neighbor who was close to the murdered family, Will pieces together a ...
Runtime: 84 min.
Directed by: Jim Sheridan
Stars: Marton Csokas | Elias Koteas | Rachel Weisz | Naomi Watts | Daniel Craig
The Deep Blue Sea (2011)
As: Hester Collyer
The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Terence Davies
Stars: Rachel Weisz | Harry Hadden-Paton | Simon Russell Beale | Tom Hiddleston | Jolyon Coy
Page Eight (2011)
As: Nancy Pierpan
Page Eight is lovingly turned, with elegant writing, a flawless cast and a heartfelt message from writer/director David Hare about the danger zone where spies and politicians meet. The tension builds gently as we follow the fortunes of Johnny Worricker, a jazz-loving charmer who works high up at MI5 as an intelligence analyst. It’s a part made for Bill Nighy and he purrs out bon mots ...
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: David Hare
Stars: Ralph Fiennes | Felicity Jones | Michael Gambon | Rachel Weisz | Bill Nighy
The Whistleblower (2010)
As: Kathryn Bolkovac
Based on the experiences of Nebraska cop Kathryn Bolkovac (Rachel Weisz) who discovers a deadly sex trafficking ring while serving as a U.N. peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia. Risking her own life to save the lives of others, she uncovers an international conspiracy that is determined to stop her, no matter the cost.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Larysa Kondracki
Stars: Monica Bellucci | Vanessa Redgrave | Nikolaj Lie Kaas | David Strathairn | Rachel Weisz
The Lovely Bones (2009)
As: Abigail Salmon
After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken family -- and her killer. As she observes their daily lives, she must balance her thirst for revenge with her desire for her family to heal.
Runtime: 135 min.
Directed by: Peter Jackson
Stars: Stanley Tucci | Susan Sarandon | Mark Wahlberg | Saoirse Ronan | Rachel Weisz
Agora (2009)
As: Hypatia
A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and her relationship with her slave Davus, who is torn between his love for her and the possibility of gaining his freedom by joining the rising tide of Christianity.
Runtime: 127 min.
Directed by: Alejandro Amenábar
Stars: Michael Lonsdale | Oscar Isaac | Max Minghella | Rachel Weisz | Ashraf Barhom
The Brothers Bloom (2008)
As: Penelope Stamp
The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they've decided to take on one last job – showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world.
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Rian Johnson
Stars: Rinko Kikuchi | Adrien Brody | Mark Ruffalo | Rachel Weisz | Robbie Coltrane
Definitely, Maybe (2008)
As: Summer Hartley
When Will decides to tell his daughter the story of how he met her mother, he discovers that a second look at the past might also give him a second chance at the future.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Adam Brooks
Stars: Abigail Breslin | Elizabeth Banks | Rachel Weisz | Ryan Reynolds | Isla Fisher
Fred Claus (2007)
As: Wanda Blinkowski
Fred Claus and Santa Claus have been estranged brothers for many years. Now Fred must reconcile his differences with his brother whom he believes overshadows him. When an efficiency expert assesses the workings at the North Pole and threatens to shut Santa down, Fred must help his brother to save Christmas.
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: David Dobkin
Stars: Paul Giamatti | Miranda Richardson | Rachel Weisz | Vince Vaughn | John Michael Higgins
My Blueberry Nights (2007)
As: Sue Lynne
Elizabeth has just been through a particularly nasty breakup, and now she's ready to leave her friends and memories behind as she chases her dreams across the country. In order to support herself on her journey, Elizabeth picks up a series of waitress jobs along the way. As Elizabeth crosses paths with a series of lost souls whose yearnings are even greater than her own, their emotional turmoil ...
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Wong Kar-wai
Stars: Natalie Portman | Jude Law | David Strathairn | Rachel Weisz | Norah Jones
Eragon (2006)
As: Saphira (voice)
In his homeland of Alagaesia, a farm boy happens upon a dragon's egg -- a discovery that leads him on a predestined journey where he realized he's the one person who can defend his home against an evil king.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Stefen Fangmeier
Stars: Djimon Hounsou | Sienna Guillory | Robert Carlyle | Jeremy Irons | Ed Speleers
The Fountain (2006)
As: Queen Isabella/Izzi Creo
Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Darren Aronofsky
Stars: Ellen Burstyn | Stephen McHattie | Rachel Weisz | Mark Margolis | Hugh Jackman
The Constant Gardener (2005)
As: Tessa Quayle
Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very dangerous conspiracy.
Runtime: 129 min.
Directed by: Fernando Meirelles
Stars: Danny Huston | Ralph Fiennes | Rachel Weisz | Donald Sumpter | Bill Nighy
Constantine (2005)
As: Angela Dodson / Isabel Dodson
John Constantine has literally been to Hell and back. When he teams up with a policewoman to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists beneath the landscape of contemporary Los Angeles.
Runtime: 121 min.
Directed by: Francis Lawrence
Stars: Djimon Hounsou | Keanu Reeves | Max Baker | Rachel Weisz | Shia LaBeouf
Envy (2004)
As: Debbie Dingman
A man becomes increasingly jealous of his friend's newfound success.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Barry Levinson
Stars: Ben Stiller | Amy Poehler | Rachel Weisz | Christopher Walken | Jack Black
Runaway Jury (2003)
As: Marlee
A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.
Runtime: 127 min.
Directed by: Gary Fleder
Stars: John Cusack | Rachel Weisz | Bruce McGill | Gene Hackman | Dustin Hoffman
Confidence (2003)
As: Lily
What Jake Vig doesn't know just might get him killed. A sharp and polished grifter, Jake has just swindled thousands of dollars from the unsuspecting Lionel Dolby with the help of his crew. It becomes clear that Lionel wasn't just any mark, he was an accountant for eccentric crime boss Winston King. Jake and his crew will have to stay one step ahead of both the criminals and the cops to finally ...
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: James Foley
Stars: Edward Burns | Rachel Weisz | Morris Chestnut | Dustin Hoffman | Andy García
The Shape of Things (2003)
As: Evelyn Ann Thompson
Quiet, unassuming Adam is changing in a major way, thanks to his new girlfriend, art student Evelyn. Adam's friends are a little freaked by the transformation.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Neil LaBute
Stars: Rachel Weisz | Frederick Weller | Paul Rudd | Gretchen Mol
About a Boy (2002)
As: Rachel
Will Freeman is a hip Londoner who one day realizes that his friends are all involved with the responsibilities of married life and that leaves him alone in the cold. Passing himself off as a single father, he starts to meet a string of single mums, confident in his ability to leave them behind when they start to ask for a commitment. But Will's hope of a continued bachelorhood is interrupted when he meets ...
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Paul Weitz | Chris Weitz
Stars: Rachel Weisz | Nicholas Hoult | Hugh Grant | Toni Collette | Sharon Small
The Mummy Returns (2001)
As: Evelyn Carnahan O'Connell/Princess Nefertiri
Rick and Evelyn O'Connell, along with their 8 year old son Alex, discover the key to the legendary Scorpion King's might, the fabled Bracelet of Anubis. Unfortunately, a newly resurrected Imhotep has designs on the bracelet as well, and isn't above kidnapping its new bearer, Alex, to gain control of Anubis' otherworldly army.
Runtime: 130 min.
Directed by: Stephen Sommers
Stars: Oded Fehr | Rachel Weisz | John Hannah | Brendan Fraser | Arnold Vosloo
Enemy at the Gates (2001)
As: Tania Chernova
Enemy at the Gates is a war film from Jean-Jacques Annaud from 2001 that takes place during the battle of Stalingard in World War II between the Russians and the Germans.
Runtime: 131 min.
Directed by: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Stars: Ed Harris | Bob Hoskins | Jude Law | Rachel Weisz | Joseph Fiennes
Beautiful Creatures (2000)
As: Petula
When Petula and Dorothy cover up the accidental murder of one jerk boyfriend, they hatch a hilarious scheme to collect a huge ransom.
Runtime: 86 min.
Directed by: Bill Eagles
Stars: Tom Mannion | Rachel Weisz | Susan Lynch | Jake D'Arcy | Iain Glen
Sunshine (1999)
As: Greta
The film follows a Jewish family living in Hungary through three generations, rising from humble beginnings to positions of wealth and power in the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire. The patriarch becomes a prominent judge but is torn when his government sanctions anti-Jewish persecutions. His son converts to Christianity to advance his career as a champion fencer and Olympic hero, but is caught up ...
Runtime: 181 min.
Directed by: István Szabó
Stars: Ralph Fiennes | William Hurt | Rachel Weisz | Miriam Margolyes | Rüdiger Vogler
The Mummy (1999)
As: Evelyn Carnahan
Dashing legionnaire Rick O'Connell and his companion, Beni stumble upon the hidden ruins of Hamunaptra while in the midst of a battle in 1923, 3,000 years after Imhotep has suffered a fate worse than death – his body will remain undead for all eternity as a punishment for a forbidden love.
Runtime: 124 min.
Directed by: Stephen Sommers
Stars: Oded Fehr | Rachel Weisz | John Hannah | Brendan Fraser | Arnold Vosloo
Tube Tales (1999)
As: Angela (segment "Rosebud")
Nine short stories based on the true experiences of London Underground passengers.
Runtime: 84 min.
Directed by: Armando Iannucci | Menhaj Huda | Bob Hoskins | Stephen Hopkins | Gaby Dellal | Amy Jenkins | Jude Law | Charles McDougall | Ewan McGregor
Stars: Jason Flemyng | Dexter Fletcher | Kelly Macdonald | Liz Smith | Denise Van Outen
The Land Girls (1998)
As: Ag (Agapanthus)
During World War II, the organisation "The Women's Land Army" recruited women to work on British farms while the men were off to war. Three such "land girls" of different social backgrounds - quiet Stella, young hairdresser Prue, and Cambridge graduate Ag - become best friends in spite of their different backgrounds.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: David Leland
Stars: Catherine McCormack | Steven Mackintosh | Anna Friel | Paul Bettany | Rachel Weisz
My Summer With Des (1998)
As: Rosie
Romantic comedy set during the European football championships in 1996, where football fan Martin finds his life is going from bad to worse after losing his job and splitting up with his girlfriend. However, as the football tournament progresses his luck begins to turn, firstly because of England's successes on the pitch, and secondly because of his encounter with a mysterious woman.
Runtime: 82 min.
Stars: Rachel Weisz | Neil Morrissey | John Gordon Sinclair | Graeme Garden | Arabella Weir
I Want You (1998)
As: Helen
A young boy and his sister are drawn into one man's obsessive pursuit of his former lover.
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: Michael Winterbottom
Stars: Rachel Weisz | Labina Mitevska | Carmen Ejogo | Alessandro Nivola | Luka Petrušić
Swept from the Sea (1998)
As: Amy Foster
The film tells the story of Russian emigree and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of 19th century. When Yanko enters a farm sick and hungry after the shipwreck, everyone is afraid of him, except for Amy, who is very kind and helps him. Soon he becomes like a son for Dr. James Kennedy and romance between Yanko and Amy follows.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Beeban Kidron
Stars: Ian McKellen | Rachel Weisz | Kathy Bates | Joss Ackland | Vincent Pérez
Bent (1997)
As: Prostitute
Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Eventually Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewish because in the eyes of the Nazis, gays are the lowest form of human being. But it takes a relationship with an openly gay prisoner to teach Max that without the love of another, life is not worth living.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Sean Mathias
Stars: Ian McKellen | Jude Law | Lothaire Bluteau | Clive Owen | Mick Jagger
Going All the Way (1997)
As: Marty Pilcher
Korean War--era veterans and ex-classmates "Gunner" Casselman and "Sonny" Burns reunite upon their return home. Gunner, who spent the war years abroad, is trying to convince his mother that his gal Marty is good enough for him, while Sonny, who was stationed stateside, is torn between loyal Buddy and tempting Gale Ann. As they commiserate, the men realize that they're outgrowing the lives they lived before ...
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Mark Pellington
Stars: Jeremy Davies | Rose McGowan | Ben Affleck | Rachel Weisz | Amy Locane
Chain Reaction (1996)
As: Dr. Lily Sinclair
Two researchers in a green alternative energy project are put on the run when they are framed for murder and treason.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Andrew Davis
Stars: Morgan Freeman | Keanu Reeves | Rachel Weisz | Kevin Dunn | Fred Ward
Stealing Beauty (1996)
As: Miranda Fox
Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian boy with whom she hopes to become reacquainted.
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: Bernardo Bertolucci
Stars: Jason Flemyng | Liv Tyler | Joseph Fiennes | Sinéad Cusack | Jeremy Irons
Death Machine (1994)
As: Junior Executive
Chaank Armaments is experimenting with the ultimate fighting machine which is part human - part machine. So far, the Hardman project has been unreliable and has killed a number of innocent people. The genius behind this project is Jack who lives in a world of models, toys and magazines. When he is fired by Cale for killing a few corporate officers, he unleashes the ultimate killing machine called the ...
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Stephen Norrington
Stars: Brad Dourif | Martin McDougall | John Sharian | Ely Pouget | William Hootkins
White Goods (1994)
As: Elaine
Ian Deegan and Charlie Collins are best friends who team up to appear on TV in a popular snooker based game show. But, when they hit their jackpot, their friendship comes under tremendous strain as they they find that they cannot agree on how best to split their winnings.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Robert Young | Al Hunter Ashton
Stars: Ian McShane | Rachel Weisz | Lenny Henry | Beverley Hills | Lesley Nightingale