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Rachel Weisz
Age: 39
Height: 5' 7"
Birth Place: London, England, UK
Born: Mar. 7th, 1970
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BIOGRAPHY: Rachel Weisz was born on 7th March 1970, 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 University. While there, she formed a theater company named 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 Noel Coward's "Design For Living." It was a role that won her a vote for Most Promising Newcomer by the London Critics' Circle.
She has starred in many movies, including The Mummy (1999), Enemy at the Gates (2001), and Stealing Beauty (1996). Rachel can also be seen in the movies The Shape of Things (2003), About a Boy (2002), Constantine (2005), and The Constant Gardener (2005), for which she won an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Screen Actor's Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress. Currently, she is living with maverick director Darren Aronofsky in Brooklyn and the two of them have a son, Henry Chance.
TRIVIA:
- Rachel and her fiancé, 'Darren Aronofsky' (qv), became the parents of a son, Henry Chance on May 31, 2006.
- Was a radical feminist at University.
- Her father invented respirators that supplied their own oxygen and machines that sense land mines.
- Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#37). [2007].
- Has a younger sister named Minnie Weisz.
- Good friends with fellow British actors 'Jude Law' (qv) and 'Susan Lynch (I)' (qv).
- Studied English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge University.
- 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.
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