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She's conquered The Mummy, even when he returned she gave him hell, but now Rachel Weisz is bounding into a hell most people never escape uncathed. She is begin to take steps into the realm of producing, her first effort will be The Shape of Things, directed By Neil LaBute (Nurse Betty) in which she will also be acting. |
Weisz is the daughter of a Jewish Hungarian inventor (George) and an Austrian psychoanalyst (Edith). Both sides of the family were busy escaping the terror of Facism during the 30's and it is London where her parents would meet and eventually marry. Then, on March 7, 1971 in London they welcomed Rachel into the family.
Her parents were a stickler for her education despite her pushing for an acting career at an early age. So, a compromise was made. Rachel spent her teen years as a model while moving on to studying English Lit. at Cambridge University. Once that precious degree was in hand, Rachel followed through with her original pursuit of life in the footlights. She soon landed her first role in Sean Mathias' West End revival of Noel Coward's Design for Living, a move that eventually led to her playing a prostitute in Mathias' directorial debut, Bent.
Weisz's performance in Design For Living won her the Critics' Circle Best Newcomer award, and she subsequently took advantage of this recognition by landing another job, a starring role in the BBC's TV adaptation of Scarlet and Black.
More work followed but it wasn't until the mid-nineties that Weisz first garnered international attention for her role as the spoiled daughter of a sculptor in Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty. Most of the movie focussed on Liv Tyler but Weisz gained some small acclaim for her role as well. Enough to grab the attention of Hollywood who came calling with what must have sounded like a good idea at the time. An action/thriller with Keanu Reeves called Chain Reaction. Chain Reaction was a dud at the box-office and so Rachel continued with leads in smaller film, more indie-oriented fare like Land Girls and Going All The Way. Going All The Way was a milestone for a lot of young talent, including Ben Affleck and Jeremy Davies.
However, as her fans know, the film that really cleaned house, and smashed up some box-office records as well, was the 1999 horror/action/comedy The Mummy with Brendan Fraser.
Weisz, grateful for the success of the film, also is smart enough to avoid being typecast in a woman screams to be saved role and has turned out some excellent performances in films like Sunshine, Beautiful Creatures and Enemy At The Gates.
"It's a kind of British Thelma & Louise. I got to be platinum blond. She's an abused trophy girlfriend who's bent on revenge." - on her work in Beautiful Creatures.
She was also smart enough to reprise her role as Evie one more time for The Mummy Returns, bringing more clout and eventually leading to her producing role. More recently she played opposite Hugh Grant in the totally underseen About A Boy. If you haven't seen this...check it out! Expect more adult style roles from Weisz if this producing gig works and of course, more acting...that bug can be hard to give up.
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