DOB: 7-March-1970
PLACE: Westminster, United Kingdom
Rachel Weisz is an English actress of stage and screen.She
is talented, witty, attractive, charming, and consistently able to display
convincing portrayals in every character her played.
Childhood
Rachel Weisz was born in Westminster, London, to Edith Ruth
and George Weisz. Her mother is a teacher-turned-psychotherapist and her father
is an inventor and engineer; both of them had fled to England in World War II.
She grew up in the Hampstead Garden suburb of London.
Rachel Weisz was privately educated at North London
Collegiate School, St. Paul's Girls' School and Benenden School before studying
at Trinity Hall Cambridge. She graduated from Cambridge University with a 2:1
in English and whilst at university, she co-founded a drama group named
Cambridge Talking Tongues. The student group went on to win a Guardian Student
Drama Award for a piece entitled 'Slight Possession', performed at the
Edinburgh Fringe Festival.