Rachel Weisz

In 2001, Rachel met Darren Aronofsky, an American filmmaker and producer at Almeida Theatre in London, when she was playing a role in ‘The Shape of Things’. She began dating the same year and a year later Rachel moved to New York with Darren.

The couple got engaged in 2005. In 2006, Rachel gave birth to their son Henry Chance Aronofsky in New York City.

In 2010, the couple announced that they had been estranged for months but continue to remain friends and bring up their son together in New York.

Rachel Hannah Weisz was born on March 7, 1970 in Westminster, London to parents George Weisz, a mechanical engineer and Edith Ruth, a psychotherapist. Her father is Jewish; her mother converted to Judaism before getting married.

Her parents left for the United Kingdom during 1938 to escape the Nazis before the Second World War. Her father came from Hungary, while her mother is an Austrian. She has one sibling, a sister, Minnie Weisz who is a photographic artist.

Rachel initially attended North London Collegiate School and later went on to attend Benenden School for a year. She then attended St Paul’s Girls School, completing her schooling with A-levels.

She also studied at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and graduated with second class honors in Bachelor of Arts degree in English.

Throughout her years as a student in Cambridge, Rachel appeared in several student productions and co-founded a drama group for students called ‘Cambridge Talking Tongues’. The group went on to win Guardian Student Drama Award at Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1991. They had performed an improvised piece called Slight Possession. The group existed only a couple of years later after that.

Rachel started her career with modelling at the age of 14.

She first appeared on television in the film ‘Advocates II’ in 1992. She later went on to appear in episodes of ‘Inspector Morse’ and BBC’s ‘Scarlet and Black’.

In 1994, she made her film debut by appearing in ‘Death Machine’. Her first major movie role was in 1996’s ‘Chain Reaction’, in which she starred alongside Keanu Reeves and Morgan Freeman.

After this, she gained popularity and landed major roles in films including ‘Swept from the Sea’, ‘I want You’, ‘My Summer with Des’, and others.

She made headlines after rejecting an offer to work with Richard Gere in ‘King David’.

She co-founded a theatre company ‘Cambridge Talking Tongues’. She went on to win several awards for it and wrote plays and acted in them.

She is the patron of ‘X Appeal’, the official charity of the Royal College of Radiologists.

In 2009, she was voted 63rd in FM 100 Sexiest Women in the World. She also ranked 44th on Glamour Magazine’s Most Glamorous Women in the World List.