Rachel Weisz

Rachel Weisz pronounces her last name "Vice."

Rachel Weisz was educated at the prestigious St Paul's Girls School in London. She was in the same class as actress Emily Mortimer. Rachel Weisz studied English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge University where she 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.

Rachel Weisz became a patron of The X Appeal, which is the official charity of the Royal College of Radiologists.

Rachel Weisz's father invented respirators that supplied their own oxygen and machines that sense land mines.

In 1998 Rachel Weisz was named as one of European films' Shooting Stars by the European Film Promotion Board. 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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