22 facts about Rachel Weisz

  1. Rachel Weisz and her fiancé, Darren Aronofsky, became the parents of a son, Henry Chance on May 31, 2006.
  2. Rachel Hannah Weisz is an English actress and model.beauty actress Rachel Weisz
  3. Rachel gained wide public recognition after her portrayal of Evelyn "Evy" Carnahan-O'Connell in the films The Mummy and The Mummy Returns.
  4. Rachel Weisz is semi fluent in German.
  5. Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#37). [2007].
  6. Her performance in The Constant Gardener (2005) won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, along with other major motion picture awards.
  7. Her father invented respirators that supplied their own oxygen and machines that sense land mines.
  8. Very good friends with the Fiennes family having worked with both Joseph Fiennes in Enemy at the Gates (2001) and twice with Ralph Fiennes in Sunshine (1999) and The Constant Gardener (2005).
  9. While filming The Mummy (1999) and The Mummy Returns (2001), she formed a strong friendship with fellow co-stars John Hannah and Oded Fehr. They remain good friends.
  10. Invited to join AMPAS in 2006.
  11. 1998: Named as one of European films' Shooting Stars by the European Film Promotion Board.
  12. Ranked #30 in Stuff magazine's 102 Sexiest Women in the World (2002).
  13. Rachel Weisz was a radical feminist at University.
  14. Won her Oscar for playing a pregnant woman in The Constant Gardener (2005) while she was pregnant in real-life with her first child.
  15. Rachel Weisz replaced Kate Moss as the new face of the Burberry campaign.
  16. Good friends with fellow British actors Jude Law and Susan Lynch.
  17. Rachel Weisz was offered a large part in the Richard Gere movie King David (1985) when she was only 14. Her parents wouldn't let her do it.
  18. Has a younger sister named Minnie Weisz.
  19. Beat out Nicole Kidman for the role of Georgie Jutland in Dirt Music (2009).
  20. When asked who her idols were, Rachel named Gena Rowlands, Katharine Hepburn, Jack Nicholson, Shirley MacLaine, Ingrid Bergman, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin.
  21. Her Austrian-born mother is of part Italian descent
  22. Rachel Weisz is the face of Revlon (2005).
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