#Fact1Shared the Cover of Vanity Fair Magazine's 2016 Hollywood Issue With, Jane Fonda, Viola Davis, Cate Blanchett, Jennifer Lawrence, Charlotte Rampling...
Is one of 6 actresses to have been pregnant at the time of winning the Academy Award; the others are Eva Marie Saint, Patricia Neal, Meryl Streep, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Natalie Portman. Neal is the only to have not accepted her award in person as a result of her pregnancy. Weisz was 7 months pregnant with her son Henry when she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for The Constant Gardener (2005).
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Can be seen in audience on Bryan Adams music video "There Will Never Be Another Tonight".
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Manila, The Philippines: Started filming for The Bourne Legacy (2012). [January 2012]
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She appeared in two movies in 2005 that have the word "Constant" in their titles: Constantine (2005) and The Constant Gardener (2005).
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Named one of the "most desirable" women for 2013 in Askmen's list of the Top 99 Most Desirable Women.
Ranked as having one of the "most beautiful faces" for 18 consecutive years by "The Annual Independent Critics List of the 100 Most Beautiful Famous Faces From Around the World." She was ranked #51 in 2013, #59 in 2012, #48 in 2011, #20 in 2010, #19 in 2009, #2 in 2008, #6 in 2007, #6 in 2006, #7 in 2005, #7 in 2004, #5 in 2003, #7 in 2002, #8 in 2001, #10 in 2000, #18 in 1999, #22 in 1998, #23 in 1997, and #30 in 1996.
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Ranked #82 in the FHM (German edition) list of 100 Sexiest Women in the World in 2009.
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Ranked #22 in the Maxim Hot 100 Women list in 2001 and #93 in 2003.
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Her publicist confirmed that Weisz married Daniel Craig in a secret ceremony in New York City, with just Craig's daughter Ella, Weisz's son Henry and two close friends as witnesses.
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One of People magazines Most Beautiful People in the world 2011.
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.
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Her father was born in Hungary and her mother was born in Austria. Both moved to the U.K. around 1938, because of the Nazi threat. Rachel's paternal grandparents, Yair Weisz (from Pressburg) and Katherine Glickel Sternberg (from Budapest), were both Ashkenazi Jews. Rachel's maternal grandfather, Alexander Teich, was an Austrian Jew, and Rachel's maternal grandmother, Anna Bassi, who was Catholic, had Austrian and Italian ancestry. Rachel's mother formally converted to Judaism when marrying Rachel's father.
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She was offered the role of "Becky" in Clerks II (2006). She couldn't do it because of scheduling conflicts. The role eventually went to Rosario Dawson.
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Was offered a large part in the Richard Gere movie King David (1985) when she was only 14. Her parents wouldn't let her do it.
Educated at the prestigious St Paul's Girls School in London. Was in the same class as actress Emily Mortimer.
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She was awarded the 1994 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre) for Most Promising Newcomer for her performance in Design for Living.
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1998: Named as one of European films' Shooting Stars by the European Film Promotion Board.
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Her father invented respirators that supplied their own oxygen and machines that sense land mines.
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She has recently become a patron of The X Appeal, which is the official charity of the Royal College of Radiologists.
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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.
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Studied English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge University.
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