Rachel Weisz thinks “happiness is the secret to health”. The British actress – who has a three-year-old son Henry with her long-term partner, director Darren Aranofsky – believes her contentment with family life helps keep her looking good. The 39-year-old beauty said: “I’m pretty healthy but I don’t have any fad diets or anything. I eat meat and drink alcohol, but everything in moderation. “I think happiness is the secret to health.” The Lovely Bones star also admitted she doesn’t feel the need to take time out of her schedule to work out because looking after Henry uses up so much of her energy. She explained: “Carrying a toddler around is incredible. I’ve got in shape from the baby, not from the gym.” In The Lovely Bones, Rachel plays a mother whose teenage daughter is brutally raped and murdered. Despite the dark plotline, the actress says being able to go home to her family helped her switch off at the end of every day. She said: “Any mother has worries about the death of her child, but as an actor you have to imagine all sorts of things – some beautiful, some ugly – and one isn’t necessarily harder than the other. “In a way a film set is a safe place to imagine it because it’s not real. It’s just fantasy. When I went home I left it at work.”

Rachel Weisz is calling on movie bosses to ban Botox for actors, comparing the popular age-defying injections to illegal “steroids for sportsmen”. The Mummy star will turn 40 on Oscar night (March 07) but she still refuses to follow the Hollywood trend. And Weisz is appealing for her fellow stars to stop the cosmetic procedure and start accepting their real age and wrinkles if they want to give award-winning performances. She tells U.S. magazine Life & Style, “It should be banned for actors as steroids are for sportsmen… Acting is all about expression.”

Bond girl Gemma Arterton has set her sights on becoming the next Rachel Weisz – because her fellow Brit seems to have it all. The Quantum of Solace actress is on the cusp of Hollywood stardom after landing lead roles in upcoming blockbusters Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and Clash of the Titans. And Arterton hopes she can enjoy a similar career to The Mummy actress, insisting Weisz balances family life and a movie career perfectly. She tells MSN.com, “I’d really like the type of career Rachel Weisz has. I have a lot of respect for her – brilliant, talented, intelligent, a witty sort of woman. “You know, she’ll do a rom-com (romantic comedy) – not that I ever want to do a rom-com – but then she’ll go off and do The Constant Gardener, have a family and live quite a normal life, it seems. I respect that.”

Actress Rachel Weisz has been voted the female star most British men want to marry. The Oscar-winner, who is engaged to movie maker Darren Aronofsky, was placed top of the list by U.K. men’s magazine Esquire. The 39 year old saw off competition from fellow Brits Keira Knightley, who was second in the poll, and Kate Winslet, who came third. And Weisz admits she’s stunned by the accolade, telling the magazine, ‘Oh my God! Really? That’s so funny. I’m marriable. But I’m not married! I was getting worried that the men didn’t like me any more, but your readers’ poll puts my mind at rest.”

Rachel Weisz and Jude Law are the toast of London’s West End again after winning the top prizes at the British capital’s only public-voted theatre awards. The pair walked away with trophies from the Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards last month with Weisz winning Best Actress for her turn in A Streetcar Named Desire, while Law was honoured with the award for Best Shakespearean Performance for his leading role in Hamlet. And the two Brits have won the Best Actor and Best Actress prizes from dedicated theatre website Whatsonstage.co.uk, which asks the theatre-going public to vote for their top performers and shows. The awards, which were announced on Sunday (February 14), were voted for by 46,000 people.

Prison thriller Cell 221 and Rachel Weisz’s historical drama Agora were the big winners at Spain’s Goya Awards on Sunday night (February 14). Cell 211 scooped a massive eight trophies at the ceremony in Madrid, including Best Film, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director for Daniel Monzon and Best Actor for Luis Tosar. Agora, which stars Weisz as a female philosophy professor in Roman Egypt, picked up seven prizes with nods for Best Special Effects, Wardrobe and Best Original Screenplay. Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire was chosen as best European film.