Rachel Weisz Trivia
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Trivia for Rachel Weisz
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Her last name is pronounced "Vice."
Family, Parents:
Weisz's Austrian-born mother is of part Italian descent.
Education:
She studied English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge University. Studying English at Cambridge University, Weisz formed the Talking Tongues theater company and at 1991's Edinburgh Festival won a student drama award for a play she wrote and acted in.
She educated at the prestigious St Paul's Girls School in London. Was in the same class as actress Emily Mortimer.
Spuose, Dating:
She dated director Sam Mendes in 2001.
She lives in New York with director Darren Aronofsky (2004). Rachel and her fiancé, Darren Aronofsky, became the parents of a son, Henry Chance on May 31, 2006.
Ranking:
She ranked #30 in Stuff magazine's 102 Sexiest Women in the World (2002).
She was chosen as the face of Revlon in 2005.
Was awarded the 1994 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre) for Most Promising Newcomer for her performance in Design for Living.
In 1998 named as one of European films' Shooting Stars by the European Film Promotion Board.
Notables:
She lives in a US$450,000 London apartment and drives a Jaguar (an old, black Jaguar 4.2 Sovereign with pepper-pot wheels).
She won her Oscar for playing a pregnant woman in The Constant Gardener (2005) while she was real-life pregnant with her first child.
Weisz's self-professed idols are: Jack Nicholson, Shirley MacLaine, Katharine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Gene Rowlands, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix.
Rachel Weisz has recently become a patron of The X Appeal, which is the official charity of the Royal College of Radiologists. Her father invented respirators that supplied their own oxygen and machines that sense land mines.
Her own favourite film of the year? “Probably” The 40 Year Old Virgin, starring Steve Carrell.
Announced on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" (1992) that she was five months pregnant and engaged to Darren Aronofsky. [January 6, 2006]
At one time in her career she was touted as the next Helen Mirren – “the thinking man’s nymph”.
When asked who her idols were, she named Gena Rowlands, Katharine Hepburn, Jack Nicholson, Shirley MacLaine, Ingrid Bergman, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin.
Has starred opposite both Fiennes brothers, with Ralph Fiennes in The Constant Gardener (2005) and Joseph Fiennes in Enemy at the Gates (2001).
Her movie debit was one line in Death Machine (1995).
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