Daniel Craig, born on March 2, 1968, is an English-American actor who won a global reputation after playing the role of the undercover agent James Bond in five movies within the movie series, including Casino Royale (2006) and No Time to Die (2021).
In 1992, Daniel Craig married actress Fiona Loudon. He had a daughter named Ella before divorcing in 1994. He later began a relationship with German actress Heike Makach, which lasted seven years until it ended in 2004. After that, he was engaged to film producer Satsuki Mitchell from 2005 to 2010.
Daniel Craig and actress Rachel Weisz have known each other since they worked together on Les Grandes Horizontales (1994). They started dating in December 2010 and married in a private ceremony in New York City on June 22, 2011, with only four guests in attendance, including Craig’s daughter and Weisz’s son.
Who Is Rachel Weisz?
Rachel Hannah Weisz is an English actress born on March 7, 1970. She has won various awards such as Academy Award, Laurence Olivier Award, and BAFTA Award. She began her acting career on the British stage and television in the early 1990s and made her film debut in Death Machine.
Rachel Weisz won the Critics’ Circle Theater Award in 1994 for her role in the revival of Noel Coward’s play Design for Life, and in 1999 she starred in the Tennessee Williams drama Suddenly Last Summer. She has appeared in the Donmar Warehouse production.
Her breakthrough in cinema came with her starring roles as Evelyn Carnahan in the Hollywood action films The Mummy (1999) and The Mummy Returns (2001). Rachel Weisz appeared in several films during the 2000s, including Enemy at the Gates (2001), About a Boy (2002), Constantine (2005), The Fountain (2006), and Lovely Bones (2009).
She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as an activist in the 2005 thriller The Constant Gardener and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress for her role as Blanche Dubois in the 2009 revival of A Streetcar Named Desire.
In the 2010s, Rachel Weisz continued to star in big-budget films such as the action movie The Bourne Legacy (2012) and the fantasy film Oz the Great and Powerful (2013), as well as starring in the independent film The Bourne. She received critical acclaim for her performance in The Deep Blue Sea (2011), Denied (2016), and Favorite (2018). Her portrayal of Sarah Churchill in the latter earned her a Best Supporting Actress award and her second Academy Award nomination.
In 2021, Rachel Weisz played Melina Vostokov in the Marvel Cinematic Universe movie Black Widow. She was engaged to film director Darren Aronofsky from 2005 to 2010 and has a son with him. She married actor Daniel Craig in 2011. That same year, she obtained her US citizenship.
How Old Is Rachel Weisz?
Rachel Weisz is 52 years old as she was born in the 1970s.
Rachel Weisz Nationality
Rachel Weisz has dual citizenship as British and American. She was born in Westminster, London, United Kingdom, and became American in the year 2011 after marrying Daniel Craig.
Rachel Weisz Ethnicity
Rachel Weisz is of mixed ethnicity. Her father, George Weisz was a Hungarian-Jewish, and her mother, Edith Ruth originally from Vienna, Austria.
What Does Rachel Weisz Do?
Rachel Weisz is an actor, film actor, stage actor, and fashion model.
Rachel Weisz Personal Life
Rachel Weisz was born in Westminster, London on March 7, 1970, and grew up in the suburb of Hampstead Gardens. Her father, George Wise (1929–2020), was a Hungarian-Jewish mechanical engineer, and her mother, Edith Ruth (1932–2016)[10], was a teacher turned psychotherapist from Vienna, Austria.
Her parents moved her to England around 1938 a child to escape the Nazis before the outbreak of World War II. Her maternal grandfather’s ancestry was Austrian-Jewish. Her maternal grandmother’s ancestry was Roman in Italy, where she was Catholic.
Academic and social activist James Parkes helped his mother’s family leave Austria for England. Her mother was raised in the Catholic Church and she officially converted to Judaism after she married her father in Wise. Rachel Weisz’s maternal grandfather was the Jewish activist Alexander Teich, who was secretary of the World Jewish Students Union. Her sister Minnie Weisz is a visual artist.
Her parents appreciated the arts, hence they encouraged them to form their own opinions by participating in family debates. She left North London Collegiate School and attended Benenden School where she was for a year, but graduated from St. Paul’s Girls’ School.
Rachel Weisz is known as “English Rose” and she started modeling when she was 14. She came to public attention in 1984 when she turned down an offer to star in King David starring Richard Gere.
Rachel Weisz went to Trinity Hall in Cambridge and read English there. She graduated with second-class honors. During college, she was a contemporary of Sacha Baron Cohen, Alexander Armstrong, Emily Maitlis, Sue Perkins, Mel Guidroic, Richard Osman, and Ben Miller (with whom she briefly dated), and appeared in various student theatrical productions.
She founded a student drama group called Cambridge Talking Tangs. The group won the Guardian Student Theater Award at the 1991 Edinburgh Festival Fringe for an improvisation called ‘Slight Possession’ directed by David Farr.
Who Is Rachel Weisz’s Husband?
Rachel Weisz is married to actor Daniel Craig. Rachel Weisz and actor Daniel Craig have been friends for many years and worked together on the movie Dream House. They started dating in December 2010 and married on June 22, 2011, in a private New York ceremony attended by four guests, including Weisz’s son and Craig’s daughter.
Before marrying Craig, Rachel Weisz started dating American filmmaker and producer Darren Aronofsky in 2001. They met backstage at the Almeida Theater in London, where she was starring in The Shape of Things. She moved to New York with Aronofsky the following year. They got engaged in 2005. Their son was born in New York City in May 2006. The couple lived in Manhattan’s East Village. In November 2010, Weisz and Aronofsky announced that they had been separated for several months, but remained close friends and committed to raising their son together in New York.
Rachel Weisz Parents
Her father, George Wise (1929–2020), was a Hungarian-Jewish mechanical engineer, and her mother, Edith Ruth (1932–2016)[10], was a teacher turned psychotherapist from Vienna, Austria. Her parents moved her to England around 1938 a child to escape the Nazis before the outbreak of World War II.
Rachel Weisz Children
Rachel Weisz is a mother of two. her son Henry Aronofsky was born in 2006 and her daughter with Daniel Craig was born in 2018, she’s also a stepmother to the first daughter of Daniel Craig whom he had with his first wife.
Rachel Weisz Net Worth
Rachel Weisz’s net worth is $40 million.
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