• She pronounces her last name “Vice.”
• Studied English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge University.
• 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.
• Lives in a US$450,000 London apartment and drives an old, black Jaguar 4.2 Sovereign with pepper-pot wheels..
• She has recently become a patron of The X Appeal, which is the official charity of the Royal College of Radiologists.
• Her father invented respirators that supplied their own oxygen and machines that sense land mines.
• Named as one of European films’ Shooting Stars by the European Film Promotion Board. (1998)
• She was awarded the 1994 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre) for Most Promising Newcomer for her performance in Design for Living.
• Educated at the prestigious St Paul’s Girls School in London. Was in the same class as actress Emily Mortimer.
• Lives in New York with director Darren Aronofsky (2004)
• Ranked #30 in Stuff magazine’s 102 Sexiest Women in the World (2002)
• Is the face of Revlon (2005)
• Announced on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” that she was five months pregnant and engaged to Darren Aronofsky. (January 06, 2006)
• When asked who her idols were, she named Gena Rowlands, Katharine Hepburn, Jack Nicholson, Shirley MacLaine, Ingrid Bergman, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin.
• Rachel and her fiancé, Darren Aronofsky, became the parents of a son, Henry Chance on May 31, 2006.
• Invited to join AMPAS in 2006
• Replaced Kate Moss as the new face of the Burberry campaign.
• Was a radical feminist at University
• Good friends with fellow British actors Jude Law and Susan Lynch.
• Is very good friends with fashion designers Narciso Rodríguez and Donna Karan.
• 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.
• 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.
• Is of Hungarian (from her father’s side) and Austrian-Italian (from mother’s side) descent.
• 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
• Is semi fluent in German.
• 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.
• Has a younger sister named Minnie Weisz.
• 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).
• Beat out Nicole Kidman for the role of Georgie Jutland in Dirt Music (2010).
• Won her Oscar for playing a pregnant woman in The Constant Gardener (2005) while she was pregnant in real-life with her first child.
• Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#37). (2007)
• 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.
• Ranked #85 on Askmen.com’s 100 Most Desirable Women in the World (2008).
• Was originally considered for the role of Daisy in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) but later backed out due to scheduling conflicts. The part was then given to Cate Blanchett.
• Ranked #44 on Glamour Magazine’s Most Glamourous Women in the World list (2009)
• Her parents escaped to England from central Europe before the start of WWII.
• Grew up a tomboy.
• Voted #63 in FHM 100 Sexiest 2009.
• Chris Weitz, who directed her in About a Boy (2002), was a classmate of Rachel when she attended Cambridge University.
• Turned down a chance to reprise her role as Evelyn Carnahan in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) upon disliking the script.
• Her part in Eragon (2006) made her one of the first actress in world history to have a leading role as a dragon.
• The role of Hypatia in Agora (2009) was written with her in mind.
• Good friends with Ian McKellan.
• Rachel starred as Evelyn in the play The Shape of Things to Come at the London Almeida Theatre in 2001. She renewed the role for the 2003 film adaption.
• Rachel considers Harry Houdini her idol.
• Rachel dislikes camels, most likely after working with them in The Mummy.
• When Rachel heard she got the leading role for The Mummy, she went straight to a pub to celebrate and got in an argument with a male friend who objected to the fact that she was asked to lose weight for the film.
• Rachel used to smoke cigarettes.
• 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.