Weisz left North London Collegiate School and attended Benenden School for one year, completing A-levels at St Paul's Girls School.
Weisz's parents valued the arts they also encouraged their children to form opinions of their own by engaging their participation in family debates. Her younger sister Minnie Weisz is a visual artist.
Weisz's maternal grandfather was Alexander Teich, a Jewish activist who had been a secretary of the World Union of Jewish Students. Weisz's mother was raised in the Catholic church, and formally converted to Judaism upon marrying Weisz's father. The scholar and social activist James Parkes helped her mother's family to leave Austria for England. Her maternal grandfather's ancestry was Austrian Jewish her maternal grandmother's ancestry was Italian Roman Catholic. Her parents both emigrated to the United Kingdom as children around 1938, prior to the outbreak of World War II, in order to escape the Nazis. Her mother, Edith Ruth (born Teich 1932–2016), was a teacher-turned-psychotherapist originally from Vienna, Austria. Her father, George Weisz (1929–2020), was a Hungarian Jewish mechanical engineer. Weisz was born on 7 March 1970 or 1971 in Westminster, London, and grew up in Hampstead Garden Suburb.
She married actor Daniel Craig in 2011, with whom she has a daughter, and became a naturalised US citizen the same year. Weisz was engaged to filmmaker Darren Aronofsky, with whom she has a son, from 2005 to 2010. In 2021, Weisz starred as Melina Vostokoff in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Black Widow. For her portrayal of Sarah Churchill in the latter, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and received a second Academy Award nomination. In the 2010s, Weisz continued to star in big-budget films such as the action film The Bourne Legacy (2012) and the fantasy film Oz the Great and Powerful (2013), and garnered critical acclaim for her performances in the independent films The Deep Blue Sea (2011) and The Favourite (2018). Weisz went on to star in several films of the 2000s, including Enemy at the Gates (2001), About a Boy (2002), Constantine (2005), The Fountain (2006), and The Lovely Bones (2009).įor her performance as a murdered activist in the 2005 thriller The Constant Gardener, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and for playing Blanche DuBois in a 2009 revival of A Streetcar Named Desire, she won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress. Her film breakthrough came with her starring role as Evelyn Carnahan in the Hollywood action films The Mummy (1999) and The Mummy Returns (2001). She won a Critics' Circle Theatre Award for her role in the 1994 revival of Noël Coward's play Design for Living and she went on to appear in the 1999 Donmar Warehouse production of Tennessee Williams' drama Suddenly, Last Summer. Weisz began acting in British stage and television in the early 1990s, and made her film debut in Death Machine (1994). She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Laurence Olivier Award, and a British Academy Film Award. Rachel Hannah Weisz ( / v aɪ s/ "vice" born 7 March 1970 or 1971) is an English actress.
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