Rachel Hannah Weisz (b. London, England, March 7, 1970) is a British actress and model, who won the Oscar, Golden Globe, SAG, the Laurence Olivier Award, the Independent Spirit Awards and other film awards. He gained public recognition for her portrayal of Evelyn "Evy" Carnahan-O'Connell in The Mummy film series. In 2001, she starred opposite Hugh Grant film About a Boy, and his performance in The Constant Gardener (2005) won him the Academy Award Oscar.
Weisz was born in Westminster , England, and grew up in Hampstead Garden Suburb . Her mother, Edith Ruth (née Teich ) , is a teacher and then a psychotherapist born in Vienna , Austria. Her father, George Weisz, is a Hungarian inventor and engineer . Weisz 's parents moved to England during World War II. Weisz 's father is Jewish and her mother is listed as Catholic , or Jewish . Weisz was raised in a "Jewish brain- home " 8 and refers to herself as Jewish . Weisz has a sister, Minnie Weisz , who is an artist.
Weisz was educated at North London Collegiate School. Later joined Benenden School and then enrolled at St Paul 's Girls ' School. He entered Trinity Hall , University of Cambridge, where he graduated in English literature with a score 2:1. During his college years appeared in various student productions, co-founder being the student theatrical group Cambridge Talking Tongues , which won the Guardian Student Drama Award at the Edinburgh Festival by an improvisation called Slight Possession .
Weisz was engaged to producer and film director Darren Aronofsky, with whom she went from 2001 to November 2010. They have a son, Henry Chance, born on May 31, 2006 in New York. The couple lived in East Village, Manhattan. On November 9, 2010 announced their marriage breakup after 9 years together.
She married British actor Daniel Craig on June 22, 2011 in a secret ceremony in New York, after several months of dating. Craig currently lives with two large cities, London and New York.