Rachel Weisz was born in London, England to Edith, an Austrian psychoanalyst and George, a Hungarian inventor.
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, for its take on Neville Shouthall's "Washbag". Rachel went on to star on stage in the lauded Sean Mathias revival of Noel Coward's "Design For Living". It was a role that won Rachel a vote for Most Promising Newcomer by the London Critic Circle.
Rachel has starred in many movies, including The Mummy, Enemy at the Gates and Stealing Beauty. Rachel can next be seen in the movies, The Shape of Things and About a Boy.
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– Sometimes Credited As: Kenya Campbell
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– Has recently become a patron of The X Appeal, which is the official charity of the Royal College of Radiologists.
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– Her father invented respirators that supplied their own oxygen and machines that sense land mines.
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– When Rachel was younger, she spoke only German.
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– Her last name means white in German.
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– Is terrified of frogs.
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– Loves heavy rock music, particularly Led Zeppelin.
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– In a BBC costume drama about the French Revolution, Weisz played an unhinged woman who cradles Ewan McGregor's head after he has been guillotined. The props department didn't have a prosthetic head so McGregor had to spend a few hours under Weisz's skirt, his head popping up through a hole in her lap.
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– Eye color: Greenish Hazel
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