Rachel Weisz Trivia

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Weisz, a British citizen by birth, became a naturalized American citizen in 2011. (en.wikipedia.org)

Rachel chose not to reprise her role as Evelyn in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor as she did not like the script. Maria Bello will take her place. (tv.com)

Rachel provides the voice of the dragon Saphira in the 2006 film Eragon. (tv.com)

Rachel played the roles of twin sisters Angela and Isabel Dodson in the 2005 film Constantine. She played opposite Keanu Reeves, who she had previously starred with in the 1996 film Chain Reaction. (tv.com)

Rachel considers Harry Houdini her idol. (tv.com)

Rachel's favourite actor is Ewan McGregor and her favourite actress is Susan Lynch. (tv.com)

Rachel loves listening to the music of Elvis. (tv.com)

Rachel used to smoke cigarettes. (tv.com)

Rachel was asked a couple of times to pose for Playboy Magazine, but turned the offer down in 2005 because she doesn't like how they retouch their photos. (tv.com)

Rachel's favourite film is Performance. (tv.com)

Rachel was a presenter at the American leg of Live Earth on July 7, 2007. (tv.com)

Rachel and her fiancé, Darren Aronofsky, became the parents of a son, Henry Chance on May 31, 2006. (imdb.com)

Is very good friends with fashion designers Narciso Rodríguez and Donna Karan. (imdb.com)

Announced on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" (1992) that she was five months pregnant and engaged to Darren Aronofsky. [January 6, 2006] (imdb.com)

Drives an old, black Jaguar 4.2 Sovereign with pepper-pot wheels. (imdb.com)

Is semi fluent in German. (imdb.com)

Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#37). [2007]. (imdb.com)

Her father invented respirators that supplied their own oxygen and machines that sense land mines. (imdb.com)

Had a role in the film Smart People (2008), but dropped out before filming began. As a result, Sarah Jessica Parker was given her role. (imdb.com)

Very good friends with the Fiennes family having worked with both Joseph Fiennes in Enemy at the Gates (2001) and twice with Ralph Fiennes in Sunshine (1999) and The Constant Gardener (2005). (imdb.com)

Divides her time between New York and London, where she has a home on the same street as fellow British actor and good friend Jude Law. (imdb.com)

Ranked #85 on Askmen.com's 100 Most Desirable Women in the World (2008). (imdb.com)

Studied English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge University. (imdb.com)

While filming The Mummy (1999) and The Mummy Returns (2001), she formed a strong friendship with fellow co-stars John Hannah and Oded Fehr. They remain good friends. (imdb.com)

Invited to join AMPAS in 2006. (imdb.com)

1998: Named as one of European films' Shooting Stars by the European Film Promotion Board. (imdb.com)

Ranked #30 in Stuff magazine's 102 Sexiest Women in the World (2002). (imdb.com)

Was a radical feminist at University. (imdb.com)

She was awarded the 1994 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre) for Most Promising Newcomer for her performance in Design for Living. (imdb.com)

Last name is pronounced "Vice." (imdb.com)

Won her Oscar for playing a pregnant woman in The Constant Gardener (2005) while she was pregnant in real-life with her first child. (imdb.com)

Replaced Kate Moss as the new face of the Burberry campaign. (imdb.com)

Lives in New York with director Darren Aronofsky (2004). (imdb.com)

Educated at the prestigious St Paul's Girls School in London. Was in the same class as actress Emily Mortimer. (imdb.com)

Dated director Sam Mendes. [2001] (imdb.com)

Good friends with fellow British actors Jude Law and Susan Lynch. (imdb.com)

She has recently become a patron of The X Appeal, which is the official charity of the Royal College of Radiologists. (imdb.com)

Lives in a US$450,000 London apartment and drives a Jaguar. (imdb.com)

Was offered a large part in the Richard Gere movie King David (1985) when she was only 14. Her parents wouldn't let her do it. (imdb.com)

Studying English at Cambridge University, Weisz 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. (imdb.com)

Is of Hungarian (from her father's side) and Austrian (from mother's side) descent. (imdb.com)

Has a younger sister named Minnie Weisz. (imdb.com)

She was offered the role of "Becky" in Clerks II (2006). She couldn't do it because of scheduling conflicts. The role eventually went to Rosario Dawson. (imdb.com)

Her favorite movie is Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell's psychedelic 1970 masterpiece Performance (1970). (imdb.com)

Beat out Nicole Kidman for the role of Georgie Jutland in Dirt Music (2009). (imdb.com)

When asked who her idols were, she named Gena Rowlands, Katharine Hepburn, Jack Nicholson, Shirley MacLaine, Ingrid Bergman, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. (imdb.com)

Her Austrian-born mother is of part Italian descent (imdb.com)

Is the face of Revlon (2005). (imdb.com)