Who is rachel weisz mother

Edit Rachel Weisz. Showing all items. Studying English at Cambridge University, Weisz formed the Talking Tongues theater company and at 's Edinburgh Festival won a student drama award for a play she wrote and acted in. Her father invented respirators that supplied their own oxygen and machines that sense land mines.

Was in the same class as actress Emily Mortimer. Lived in New York with director Darren Aronofsky. Ranked 30 in Stuff magazine's Sexiest Women in the World Drives an old, black Jaguar 4. Has two children - a son Henry Chance Aronofsky b.

August with her husband Daniel Craig. Replaced Kate Moss as the new face of the Burberry campaign. Her favorite movie is Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell 's psychedelic masterpiece Performance Was offered a large part in the Richard Gere movie King David when she was only Her parents wouldn't let her do it. She was offered the role of "Becky" in Clerks II She couldn't do it because of scheduling conflicts. The role eventually went to Rosario Dawson. Her father was born in Hungary and her mother was from Vienna, Austria.

Both moved to the U. Rachel's mother formally converted to Judaism when marrying Rachel's father. Divides her time between New York and London, where she has a home on the same street as fellow British actor and good friend Jude Law. They remain good friends. Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the Sexiest Stars in film history Had a role in the film Smart People , but dropped out before filming began.

As a result, Sarah Jessica Parker was given her role. Ranked 85 on Askmen. Was originally considered for the role of Daisy in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button but later backed out due to scheduling conflicts. The part was then given to Cate Blanchett. Chris Weitz , who directed her in About a Boy , was a classmate of Rachel when she attended Cambridge University. Her part in Eragon made her one of the first actresses in history to have a leading role as a dragon.

The role of Hypatia in Agora was written with her in mind. Returned to work two months after giving birth to her son Henry in order to begin filming My Blueberry Nights Was one month pregnant with her son Henry when she completed filming on Eragon Was in a relationship with Darren Aronofsky May November Ranked 22 in the Maxim Hot Women list in and 93 in Was cast in Mozart and the Whale , alongside Josh Hartnett , however she had to drop out, due to schedule conflicts, and was replaced by Radha Mitchell.

Named one of the "most desirable" women for in Askmen's list of the Top 99 Most Desirable Women. She appeared in two movies in that have the word "Constant" in their titles: Constantine and The Constant Gardener Neal is the only to have not accepted her award in person as a result of her pregnancy.

Became an American citizen in But she likes to be identified as British. Photographed by Annie Leibovitz. Is one of 6 actresses to have won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for playing a character who is pregnant at some point during the film, hers being for The Constant Gardener Counts James Stewart as her all-time cinematic crush, especially for his role in The Philadelphia Story Returned to work nine months after giving birth to her daughter to begin filming Black Widow Her first starring role was in the tv production of The Scarlet and the Black.

Her birthday is 5 days after her husband's Daniel Craig. I found myself a sophisticated, educated American. He's not an actor. He's traveled the world. He knows where Europe is, unlike a lot of Americans. He's very cultured, but he's all man. You just have to play every scene honestly and forget about a reaction and what the audience is going to think. I think the more seriously you take something, the more funny it might be.

People find out I'm an actress and I see that 'whore' look flicker across their eyes. Critics are raving about Disobedience — in select theaters April Her father, an engineer and inventory, came from an Orthodox Jewish family in Budapest.

I love women. Women are just really fascinating and different from men. She starred alongside Ralph Fiennes; the film is based off the book of the same name by John Le Carre. It was not an ambition of mine. It was the opposite. They played a married couple. Foreshadowing, anyone? Probably two at that time, and you washed them. And a toy. By contrast, Weisz was raised in a prosperous household in Hampstead Garden Suburb, north London, her father an engineer and her mother by then a psychotherapist.

It was strange, she says, being back in those parts to film Disobedience. I grew up in a very liberal Jewish household and my mum was a convert from Catholicism. But we filmed in Golders Green high street and the director of photography had grown up on the next street from me.

And it was the most extraordinary thing. It felt mythological — ordinary and mythological at the same time. But it was also nothing to do with my life. It is this tangential relationship to reality that Weisz likes best about her job, enabling her to self-expose under cover of drama. I like fiction for that reason. Does that limit the extent to which she reveals herself? Autobiography is a less palatable business entirely. After Cambridge, she was confident her life in avant-garde theatre was set to continue, until the acting partner with whom she had set up a theatrical company decided to go to Rada and the thing fell apart.

I was trying to do naturalistic acting. That was so weird. Would I ever do that? We just grew up. Would she repeat that honest approach with her son? There is a long pause.