Rachel Weisz is an actress and was a fashion model from England. She started acting with Trinity Hall of Cambridge in the 1990s and worked for television production where she appeared in the Scarlet and Black, a British mini Series and for a television film, the Advocate II. For the movies, she played in the Death Machine, Chain Reaction, The Mummy and The Mummy returns. Her other movies where she appeared are The Fountain, Constantine, About a Boy and Enemy at the Gates. She got an academy awards for her supporting role in The Constant Gardner, she got a Screen Actor Guild Award, Golden Globe award and Academy Award.
Rachel Weisz was born in London and his father George was working in Hungary as inventor and the mother Edith Ruth was a teacher who became a psychotherapist in Austria. Their parents came to England before the Second World War to get away from the Nazis. Her maternal grandfather and her father were Jewish. Her mother is a mix of Italian, Jewish and Austrian. Her mother was raised as Catholic but turned to Judaism afterwards. Rachel was inspired by his parents to value arts and her teacher of English literature inspired her. Her parents got a divorce after sometime.
She started to model when she was only 14 and she got attention when she refused to play in King David where Richard Gere was to play. She studied in Cambridge and graduated with Bachelor of Arts in English degree. While at the university, she was with Ben Miller who was her boyfriend for some time, Richard Osman, Mel Giedroyc, Sue Perkins, Alexander Armstrong and Sacha Baron Cohen. She was a co founder of a drama group of student under the name of Cambridge Talking Tongue. It got a drama award from the Guardian because of the improvised piece Slight Possession played at Edinburgh Fringe.
Rachel Weisz is married to Daniel Craig , an actor in Skyfall. When asked about their marriage, they say that they do not take any gadget in the bedroom and they make sure that most of things have been unplugged. When someone referred to them as the power couple, her husband said that he does not understand what he meant to say especially because they like to keep everything to themselves. Their marriage took place in a secret ceremony in 2011. The couple is expected to co-start in the play Betrayal of Harold Pinter.
Before getting married to Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz was dating Darren Aronosky who is the father of her son. They announced that they were engaged but they separated instead of getting married. In 2011, she married Daniel Craig and she got a US citizenship. She appeared on different cover magazines like InsideKENT, Esquire and Vogue. She is a muse of Narciso Rodriguez, a fashion designer. She is known to be against Botox and she said that it should be banned to be used by the actors as steroids are banned with sportsmen. Rachel Weisz has a net worth of 30 million dollars. Her first salary is from modeling before she started to act. She was a global ambassador for L’ Oreal.
Birth Date: | 7 Mar, 1970 |
Age: | 50 yrs |
Citizenship: | United Kingdom |
Birth Place: | Westminster |
residence: | New York City |
Gender: | Female |
Description: | British actress |
Spouse: | Daniel Craig [M. 2011] |
Net Worth 2021: | 36 million |