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Introducing Rachel Weisz - Profile and Photos
Profile: Rachel Weisz
Rachel was born March 7, 1971, in London, England. She is
an accomplished British actress and stage star. Rachel's mother is a Viennese-born
psychotherapist and her father is a Hungarian-born inventor. At the age of
fourteen, Rachel began modelling as she completed her secondary education.
Her acting career began while attending Cambridge to study English. Rachel
broke into acting with a role in Sean Matthias' "West End" revival
of Noel Coward's "Design for Living". She then earned the attention
of an international audience with her role as the spoiled daughter of a sculptor
in Bernardo Bertolucci's "Stealing Beauty". Rachel managed to garner
notice of her own, and this recognition was furthured by her top billing opposite
Keanu Reeves in "Chain Reaction" that same year. Unfortunately,
the big-budget thriller was not a box office sucess by any means and delt
an undeserving blow to her acting ability. Rachel returned to Britain to star
as a hairdresser in the drama "I Want You". She next appeared in
the hollywood sucess, "Mummy", as Brendan Fraser's damsel in distress.
To further her triumph that same year, she played yet another star role in
"Sunshine", Istvan Szabo's epic drama about three generations of
a family of Hungarian Jews. Rachel's subsequent return was in the early 20th
century drama, with "Enemy at the Gates", as a Russian party official
caught between the affections of a Russian American sniper.
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