Age: 56
female
Rachel Hannah Weisz (/vaɪs/; born 7 March 1970) is an English actress. Known for her roles in independent films and blockbusters, she has received several awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Laurence Olivier Award. Weisz began acting in stage and television productions in the early 1990s and made her film debut in Death Machine (1994). She won a Critics' Circle Theatre Award for her role in the 1994 revival of Noël Coward's play Design for Living. She went on to appear in the 1999 Donmar Warehouse production of Tennessee Williams' drama Suddenly Last Summer. Her film breakthrough came with her starring role as Evelyn Carnahan in the Hollywood action films The Mummy (1999) and The Mummy Returns(2001). Weisz went on to star in several films of the 2000s, including Enemy at the Gates (2001), About a Boy (2002), Runaway Jury (2003), Constantine (2005), The Fountain (2006), The Lovely Bones (2009) and The Whistleblower (2010). For her performance as an activist in the 2005 thriller The Constant Gardener, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. For playing Blanche DuBois in a 2009 revival of A Streetcar Named Desire, she won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress. In the 2010s, Weisz continued to star in big-budget films such as the action film The Bourne Legacy (2012) and the fantasy film Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) and achieved critical acclaim for her performances in the independent films The Deep Blue Sea (2011), Denial (2016), and The Favourite (2018). For her portrayal of Sarah Churchill in The Favourite, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and received a second Academy Award nomination. Weisz portrayed Melina Vostokoff in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Black Widow (2021) and starred as twin obstetricians in the thriller miniseries Dead Ringers (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Wendell Pierce, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Rachel Weisz
Nicola
for Nicola in What About The Geraniums?
Suggested by thecookieprincess
Alex, country boy with a knack for taking care of family and home. His grandparents went on trip with his grandmother's sister and her husband. They leave Alex in charge of garden, pets and house, where he grew up and he knows all in the village, he always liked to come back from big city. Alex discovers that the beautiful garden has fallen into disarray and the geraniums, his grandmother's favorite flower, need tending. He has a lot of work to do. After finishing it, Alex decided to go to the square and in the store he met beautiful Amélie, who is into a conflict with her ex bf, and when Alex saw that he used violence, he stood up for her. Alex and Amélie spend evening walking and having fun. Amélie is interested in the garden, especially grandma's beloved geraniums. Invites her to come help with garden next day and is surprised when she really came, they spend all day together and while hiding their feelings, begin to fall in love. In the evening he invites her for ice cream, they notice a sign on building and continue the journey and go through places where they spent childhood. Alex asks if she believes in love, she says yes and tells about a boy she met when she was 6 and fell in love, when he left after holidays, they said goodbye and she gave him photo so he wouldn't forget. Alex smiled and looked into her glassy eyes, then reached into pocket and pulled out a grubby lil piece of paper, handed it to her. When she opened it, she burst into tears. It was the old photo.
