Rachel Hannah Weisz is a British-American actress. She began acting in British stage and television productions in the early 1990s, and made her film debut in
Death Machine (1994). She won a Critics' Circle Theatre Award for her role in the 1994 revival of Noël Coward's play
Design for Living, and went on to appear in the 1999 Donmar Warehouse production of Tennessee Williams' drama
Suddenly, Last Summer. Her film breakthrough came with her starring role as Evelyn Carnahan in the Hollywood action films
The Mummy (1999) and
The Mummy Returns (2001). Weisz went on to star in several films of the 2000s, including
Enemy at the Gates (2001),
About a Boy (2002),
Runaway Jury (2003),
Constantine (2005),
The Fountain (2006), and
The Lovely Bones (2009).