Rachel Weisz, born in 1970 and married since 2011 to fellow actor Daniel Craig, made her debut on screen in the early '90s with episodic appearances in a multitude of soap operas.
Among her first major titles we find Stolen Beauty, with Jeremy Irons and Liv Tyler, and among her first notable leading roles we have to stop at Chain Reaction, from 1996, with Keanu Reeves and Morgan Freeman.
It was not long after (1999) when she was the co-star, along with Brendan Fraser, in The Mummy, where she played Evelyn (a role she would repeat in 2001 for the second part), and in 2005 she shared the spotlight again with Reeves in Constantine, playing to the Dodson twins, Angela and Isabel.
However, the same year as Constantine, the role for which Weisz won her well-deserved Oscar for best supporting actress, for which she was also nominated for a BAFTA, was also released: The Constant Gardener.
It would take thirteen years to get back on that podium (that of the Oscars, the BAFTAs, the Women's Alliance and a good list added), and it would be for her role, also secondary, in The Favorite, from 2018, in which she played delightfully to Lady Sarah in a period drama in which Sarah and newcomer Abigail come into conflict for the favor of Queen Anne.
In between she has made films almost exclusively. Few titles and well chosen, some more than excellent. In 2009 she starred in what was probably my favorite of her films (also one of my favorite films): Agora, in which she gave life to Hypatia of Alexandria. In the following years she would receive other great titles such as The Lovely Bones, The Bourne Legacy or Oz: A Fantasy World, with James Franco, in which she played Evanora.
Lobster, from 2015, is one of her most acclaimed roles. In it, he shared the bill with Colin Farrell to star in a story about how, in a nearby dystopia, single people are taken to a hotel and forced to find a partner in forty-five days or, if not, they are turned into beasts and expelled to the forest.
Although Langosta still followed a good rhythm of a couple of titles per year, The Favorite was undoubtedly the film to highlight. After her, there is a three-year break until, in 2021, she surprised by returning to the cinema in Black Widow, from the UCM, putting herself in the shoes of Melina Vostokoff, a Russian spy specialized in mental manipulation.
