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Rachel Weisz: Constant Gardener
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London native Rachel Weisz likes quirky roles that are out of character for her personality. She acted in British film and theatre before starring in the blockbusters The Mummy and its sequel, which brought international fame. Weisz began acting at Cambridge University, where she co-founded a theater company and won a student drama award. Her film credits include Enemy at the Gates, Runaway Jury, Constantine and The Constant Gardener, for which she recently earned Golden Globe and SAG nods.
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Rachel Weisz plays a dual role in Constantine, which reunites her with Keanu Reeves, her co-star in the 1996 action film Chain Reaction. Weisz has been extremely busy in the past year. She is currently filming The Fountain, opposite Hugh Jackman. In 2003, she co-starred in the thriller Runaway Jury, opposite John Cusack, Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman. Earlier that same year, the talented actress was seen in Confidence, with Ed Burns and Dustin Hoffman, and in Neil La Bute's The Shape of Things, which she ... co-produced.
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British actress Rachel Weisz, sometimes credited as Kenya Campbell, received wide recognition as scientist Evelyn Carnahan in Stephen Sommers' box-office blockbusters The Mummy (1999) and The Mummy Returns (2001). First noticed on stage while starring in Sean Mathias' West End revival of Noel Coward's "Design For Living" (1994), Weisz later gained more attention for acting in such films as Stealing Beauty (1996), Chain Reaction (1996), The Land Girls (1998), Enemy at the Gates (2001), About a Boy (2002), Confidence (2003), The Shape of Things (2003), Runaway Jury (2003), Constantine (2005) and The Constant Gardener (2005). She will soon star in the upcoming films The Fountain, and Heaven and Earth.
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Today, Academy Award-winning actress Rachel Weisz joins Martha to chat about her new holiday movie, "Fred Claus," and bake a Spiced Apple Pie from Martha's Ultimate Thanksgiving Menu. Born in London, Rachel appeared in multiple student productions at Cambridge before landing her breakthrough role as Gilda in the 1995 West End revival of Noel Coward's 1933 play "Design for Living." For her role in "The Constant Gardner," Rachel earned a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and the Oscar for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role.
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Rachel Weisz won the Screen Actors Guild Award as best supporting actress Sunday for her role as a rabble-rousing humanitarian-aid worker in the murder thriller "The Constant Gardener." The triumph at the guild honors, the last major acting prizes before the Academy Awards, boosts Weisz's prospects at the Oscars, whose nominations will be announced Tuesday.
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Last month, many sites reported that British actress Rachel Weisz would be the new voice of Lara Croft, blue-blooded heroine of the Tomb Raider series. Though publisher Eidos Interactive would only say an announcement was "coming soon," the choice seemed logical. Even before she was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for the thriller The Constant Gardner, the actress had a high profile with gamers, having starred in the popular Mummy films. Also, given the fact Weisz is currently several months pregnant with the child of filmmaker Darren Aronofsky, who is directing her in the forthcoming sci-fi romance The Fountain, she'd probably be up for an undemanding-but-lucrative voice-acting gig.
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