Rachel Weisz was born on the 7th March, 1971 in London, England to Edith, an
Austrian psychoanalyst and George, a Hungarian inventor. Her father invented
both respirators that supplied their oxygen as well as machines that sense land
mines. Rachel attended the prestigious St. Paul's Girls School in London.
Rachel was a model by the time she was 14 and began acting during her studies at
Cambridge University, where she majored in English Literature. While there, she
formed a theatre company called Talking Tongues, which won the Guardian Award in
1991, at the Edinburgh Festival, for a play that she both wrote and acted in. In
1994, Rachel went on to star on stage in Sean Mathias revival of Coward's
Design For Living, a role that won Rachel a vote for Most Promising Newcomer
by the London Critic Circle. In 1998, Rachel was named one of European films
"Shooting Stars" by European Film Promotion.
Rachel's breakthrough into the American film industry came when she starred in
The Mummy (1999) and its sequel The Mummy Returns with Brendan Fraser. She went on to
star in Enemy at the Gates (2001). Rachel first starred with Keanu Reeves
in Chain Reaction (1996), and she will be appearing with him again in the
2005 film Constantine (2005). Rachel has starred in over
dozen films and 5 British television series.
In 2001, Rachel dated director Sam Mendes. Rachel currently resides in New York
with director Darren Aronofsky.
