Age, Biography, and Wiki
Rachel Hannah Weisz was born on March 7, 1970, in London, England. She comes from a family with Hungarian and Austrian roots. Weisz is known for her diverse roles in blockbusters and independent films. Her Wikipedia page provides a comprehensive overview of her early life and career achievements ().
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| Date of Birth | 7 March 1970 |
| Age | 55 Years |
| Birth Place | Westminster, London, England, UK |
| Horoscope | Pisces |
| Country | England |
Height, Weight & Measurements
Rachel Weisz stands at approximately 5 feet 6 inches (168 cm) in height. While specific weight and other body measurements are not widely documented, she is known for her slender and elegant appearance throughout her career.
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Dating & Relationship Status
Weisz was married to director Darren Aronofsky from 2001 to 2010, with whom she has a son, Henry. In 2011, she married actor Daniel Craig, best known for playing James Bond ().
Her father, George Weisz, was a Hungarian Jewish mechanical engineer. Her mother, Edith Ruth ( Teich), was a teacher-turned-psychotherapist originally from Vienna, Austria. Her maternal grandfather's ancestry was Austrian Jewish; her maternal grandmother was Catholic and of Italian ancestry. The scholar and social activist James Parkes helped her mother's family to leave Austria for England. Weisz's mother was raised in the Catholic church and formally converted to Judaism upon marrying Weisz's father. Weisz's maternal grandfather was Alexander Teich, a Jewish activist who had been a secretary of the World Union of Jewish Students.
Her parents immigrated to the United Kingdom as children around 1938, prior to the outbreak of World War II, in order to escape the Nazis. Her younger sister Minnie Weisz is a visual artist. Weisz's parents valued the arts; they encouraged their children to form opinions of their own by engaging their participation in family debates. Weisz left North London Collegiate School and attended Benenden School for one year, completing A-levels at St Paul's Girls School.
In 2013, Weisz starred on Broadway alongside her husband, Daniel Craig, in a revival of Harold Pinter's Betrayal. It opened 27 October 2013, and closed 5 January 2014. Box office receipts of $17.5 million made it the second highest grossing Broadway play of 2013. That year, Weisz played Evanora in the fantasy film Oz the Great and Powerful.
In 2001, Weisz began dating the American filmmaker and producer Darren Aronofsky. They met backstage at London's Almeida Theatre, where she was starring in The Shape of Things. Weisz moved to New York City with Aronofsky the following year; in 2005, they were engaged. The couple resided in the East Village in Manhattan. Mohel Philip Sherman performed their son's brit milah (bris). In November 2010, Weisz and Aronofsky announced that they had been apart for months but remained close friends and were committed to bringing up their son together in New York.
Weisz and the English actor Daniel Craig were friends for many years and worked together on the 2011 film Dream House. They began dating in December 2010 and married on 22 June 2011 in a private New York ceremony, with four guests in attendance, including Weisz's son and Craig's daughter. On 1 September 2018, it was reported that they had their first child together, a daughter.
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Net Worth and Salary
Rachel Weisz's net worth is estimated to be around $40 million. Her wealth is primarily derived from her successful film and theater career, with earnings from salaries, royalties, and revenue sharing ().
Career, Business, and Investments
Weisz began her career in theater and television, eventually transitioning to film. Her breakthrough role came with "The Mummy" (1999) and its sequel "The Mummy Returns" (2001). She won an Academy Award for her performance in "The Constant Gardener" (2005). Weisz is also a model and has been involved in various business ventures, including real estate investments, such as the purchase of a New York apartment with Daniel Craig valued at $11.5 million in 2010 ().
Weisz started her film career with a minor role in the 1994 film Death Machine; her first major role came in the 1996 film Chain Reaction. The film received mostly negative reviews–it holds a 16% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and was a minor financial success. She next appeared as Miranda Fox in Stealing Beauty, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, where she was first labelled an "English rose".
Weisz's production company, LC6 Productions, released its first feature film, Disobedience, in 2017, starring Weisz and Rachel McAdams. Weisz grew up three London Underground stops away from the Orthodox Jewish neighborhood where the film is set. Raised within Judaism, Weisz never fully connected to her ancestral religion. She claims she was "really disobedient" herself and has never felt she fits in anywhere.
Social Network
Rachel Weisz is not very active on social media platforms, preferring to maintain a private life away from the public eye.
In 1999, Weisz played Greta in the historical film Sunshine. The same year, her international breakthrough came with the 1999 adventure film The Mummy, in which she played the female lead opposite Brendan Fraser. Her character, Evelyn Carnahan, is an English Egyptologist, who undertakes an expedition to the fictional ancient Egyptian city of Hamunaptra to discover an ancient book. Variety criticised the direction of the film, writing: "(the actors) have been directed to broad, undisciplined performances [...] Buffoonery hardly seems like Weisz's natural domain, as the actress strains for comic effects that she can't achieve". She followed this up with the sequel The Mummy Returns in 2001, which grossed an estimated $433 million worldwide, (equivalent to $0 million in dollars) higher than the original's $260 million (equal to $0 million in dollars).
Weisz starred in the film The Whistleblower, which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2010. The film was based on the true story of human trafficking by employees of contractor DynCorp. During its première, the intense depiction of the treatment meted out to victims by the kidnappers made a woman in the audience faint. Variety wrote "Weisz's performance holds the viewer every step of the way." That same year, she guest-starred in the animated series The Simpsons, in the 22nd season episode "How Munched is That Birdie in the Window?". Weisz's 2011 roles included an adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play The Deep Blue Sea, Fernando Meirelles' drama 360, the BBC espionage thriller Page Eight, and the thriller film Dream House.
Education
Weisz attended the University of Cambridge, where she studied English literature. She was a member of the Cambridge Talking Tongues theater group during her time at Trinity Hall College ().
Weisz went to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where she read English, matriculating in 1988. She graduated with upper second-class honours. During her university years she was a contemporary of Sacha Baron Cohen, Alexander Armstrong, Emily Maitlis, Sue Perkins, Mel Giedroyc, Richard Osman and Ben Miller (whom she briefly dated), and appeared in various student dramatic productions, co-founding a student drama group called Cambridge Talking Tongues. The group won a Guardian Student Drama Award at the 1991 Edinburgh Festival Fringe for an improvised piece written by Weisz herself called Slight Possession, directed by David Farr.
Also in 1999, she played the role of Catherine in the Donmar Warehouse production of Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer, What's on Stage called her "captivating", stating that she brought "a degree of credibility to a difficult part". The same year, Weisz appeared in Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things at the Almeida Theatre, then temporarily located in London's King's Cross, for which she received a Theatre World Award. CurtainUp called her "a sophisticated, independent artist" with "great stage presence".
