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Rachel Weisz |
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Female |
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5' 7" |
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UK - United Kingdom |
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March 7, 1971 |
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London, England, UK |
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c/o ICM Artists |
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Oxford House |
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76 Oxford Street |
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London, W1D 1BS |
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UK |
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c/o Maccorkindale & Holton |
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1640 Fifth Street, Suite 205 |
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Santa Monica, CA 90401 |
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Biography |
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Rachel Weisz is a British actress who was born in London on March 7, 1971. Both her mother and her father are Jewish and, in the late 1930s, were brought from Vienna and Hungary respectively to England to escape persecution by the Nazis. Weisz read English Literature at Cambridge. During her college years she already appeared in various student productions, mainly as part of Cambridge Footlights. Rachel was a model when she was 14 and began acting during her studies at Cambridge. While there, she formed a theatre company called Talking Tongues, which won the Guardian Award, at the Edinburgh Festival. Her breakthrough role was that of Gilda in Sean Mathias's 1995 West End revival of Noël Coward's 1933 play Design for Living at the Gielgud Theatre. Weisz started her cinema career in 1996 with Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty. Since then she has starred in a number of films including The Mummy (1999), About a Boy (2002), and Runaway Jury (2003). In 2001 she returned to the stage to play Evelyn in Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things at the Almeida Theatre. She is currently living in London and is single, but has dated Oscar-winning director, Sam Mendes.
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