Rachel Weisz

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Rachel Weisz

Profession: Actress
Place/Date of Birth: London, 07 March 2020

Weisz role - July 04
Rachel Weisz is to star alongside Ralph Fiennes in Le Carre adaptation.

The beautiful actress, famous for roles in About A Boy and The Mummy will play Ralph’s adulterous wife in The Constant Gardener. Directed by Fernando Merielles, famous for Mexican hit City of God, the £15m project also sees Bill Nighy back on the big screen after his role in TV period drama He Knew He Was Right. The Constant Gardener is currently being filmed in Africa and London.

Weisz says actors are paid too much - 18/07/03
Local actress Rachel Weisz has said she believes successful actors are being paid too much.

The 32-year-old star of the US blockbuster The Mummy, said extortionate salaries often squeezed other parts of the film itself.

She told Harpers and Queen magazine: "It’s bad for actors; they feel they can’t take less than their quote because they think it won’t look good. And it puts pressure on the movie."

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Biography

The daughter of Hungarian immigrants, Rachel Weisz was born in London in 1971 and now lives in Primrose Hill.

After expulsion for bad behaviour from various posh schools she started a modelling career. She got her self into the papers when she was 14 because she turned down an offer from Richard Gere of a role in ’King David’.

She did English Literature at Cambridge and then went into acting, going on to star in films such as ’The Mummy’.

Now commands an international success, she’s said to command £2 million per movie and is a now . She has dated Neil Morrissey as well Sam Mendes, Kate Winslet’s current beau.
November 2007