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Rachel Weisz declined when asked to work on The Mummy’s upcoming sequel, “Tomb of the Dragon Emperor?” Instead, look for Rachel in “The Lovely Bones” with Mark Wahlberg!   

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Rachel Hannah Weisz ( "vice") (born 7 March 1970There are conflicting sources for the year of Weisz' birth. The British Film Institute and others give 1970 BFI | Film & TV Database | WEISZ, Rachel; a Guardian article gives 1971. Her birth was registered in March quarter of 1970 in Westminster) is an Academy Award-winning English actress.IndieLondon: Definitely Maybe - Rachel Weisz interview - Your London Reviews She gained wide public recognition after her portrayal of Evelyn "Evy" Carnahan-O'Connell in the Hollywood films The Mummy and The Mummy Returns. In 2001, she starred opposite Hugh Grant in the hit About a Boy and continued to garner leading roles in Hollywood productions. Her performance in The Constant Gardener (2006) garnered her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, along with other major motion picture awards.

Early life

Weisz was born in Westminster, England, and grew up in the Hampstead Garden Suburb.Aslet, Clive. Design for living, The Daily Telegraph, 14 April 2007. Accessed 6 May 2008. Her mother, Edith Ruth (née Teich), is a Vienna-born Austrian teacher turned psychotherapist.Rachel Weisz biography Her father, George Weisz, is a Hungarian-born inventor whose family fled to England to escape Nazi persecution. Weisz's father is Ashkenazi Jewish and her mother has been referred to as either Catholic, Jewish, having Jewish ancestry, and being of part Italian descent.www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-43680041.html Weisz was raised in a cerebral Jewish householdJoseph, Claudia. Rachel's Weisz guy. 5 June 2005. and refers to herself as Jewish. Weisz has a sister, Minnie Weisz, who is an artist.
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