Rachel Weisz was born on 7th March 1970, 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 University. While there, she formed a theater company named 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 her a vote for Most Promising Newcomer by the London Critics' Circle.She has starred in many movies, including Die Mumie (1999), Duell - Enemy at the Gates (2001), and Gefühl und Verführung (1996). Rachel can also be seen in the movies The Shape of Things (2003), About a Boy oder: Der Tag der toten Ente (2002), Constantine (2005), and Der ewige Gärtner (2005), for which she won an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Screen Actor's Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress.She recently (early 2011) married James Bond actor, 'Daniel Craig' in a private ceremony in New York.
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