Models: 2011

Sunday 4 September 2011

Rachel weisz filmography

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Once Weisz finished her university education, she was offered a place at drama school, but she chose to look for work. In those years, she started taking small television roles.^[12] Despite her rising career, she felt deeply unhappy at times, having days in which she could not drag herself out of bed because of her unhappiness. This situation led to her undergoing therapy three times a week for five years.^[11]

Early life and background

Weisz was born in Westminster, London, England, and grew up in the Hampstead Garden Suburb.^[3] Her mother, Edith Ruth (née Teich), is a teacher turned psychotherapist who was born in Vienna, Austria. Her father, George Weisz, was a Hungarian-born inventor and engineer.^[4] Her parents fled to England during the Holocaust and Second World War. Her father is Jewish and her mother is of Jewish, "Catholic Viennese", and Italian descent.^[5]^[6] Her maternal grandfather, Alexander Teich, was a secretary of the World Union of Jewish Students;^[7]^[8]^[9] whilst one of her maternal great-grandmothers was from Italy.^[6] She has a sister, Minnie, who is a photographer and curator.^[10]
Weisz's parents valued the arts, and encouraged her and her sister to form opinions of their own by introducing them to family debates.[Her parents later divorced).^[11] Weisz left North London Collegiate School and attended Benenden for one year completing A' levels at St Paul's Girls School.^[12] Weisz claimed that she was a bad student until an English Literature teacher inspired her at the age of sixteen.^[13]
Weisz started modeling when she was fourteen.^[14] In 1984, she gained public attention when she turned down an offer to star in King David, along with Richard Gere.^[12]
After school, she entered Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where she graduated with a 2:1 in English. During her university years, she appeared in various student productions, co-founding a student drama group called Cambridge Talking Tongues.^[15] It won a Guardian Student Drama Award at the 1991 Edinburgh Fringe Festival for an improvised piece called Slight Possession,^[16]directed by David Farr. The group existed until 1993.