Source: IBTimes RACHEL WEISZ has become the first actress to win an acting award named for the late NATASHA RICHARDSON at a prizegiving recognising the best in London theatre. The Mummy star received the Natasha Richardson Best Actress trophy for her part in West End play A Streetcar Named Desire at a ceremony hosted by the London Evening Standard newspaper on Monday (23Nov09). The coveted gong has been renamed to honour Liam Neeson’s wife, who [...]
The nominations in the tenth annualWhatsonstage.com Awards, the “theatregoers’ choice”, were announced 4 December 2009 at the West End’s Cafe de Paris. The Whatsonstage.com Awards are the only major theatre prize-giving decided by the public, who vote online at awards.whatsonstage.com. This year, nearly 6,500 people took part in the nominations phase of the judging process, smashing last year’s record by 1,500. Rachel is nominated in the Best Actress in a Play category so do go [...]
After a (too) long time I have finally updated the gallery, here is a list that I have done so far: New layout. Way too long overdue I know. Harper’s Bazaar UK – August 2009 Parade – June 7, 2009 BlackBook – May 2009 A Streetcar Named Desire (2009) Photoshoot #125 (Register or log in to view) Clippings A Streetcare Named Desire After Party More will be added at a later date. I hope you [...]
The New York Times: Rachel Weisz appears slowly, haltingly, at the start of the new London revival of “A Streetcar Named Desire,” her Blanche DuBois stepping tentatively into an alien landscape that on some level this fragile soul seems to know may finish her off. But in precisely the sort of exhilarating paradox on which the theater thrives, I’ve never seen a Blanche so fully in command of the contradictions that drive the heroine of [...]
Source: Chicago Sun-Times She sounds like any other working mother who takes her Oscar-winning self around the globe with her toddler to film movies. Rachel Weisz — mom to toddler Henry Chance Aronofsky — says that making “The Brothers Bloom” wasn’t just a film experience for her. It was also a major life moment. “We filmed in Prague and Romania like a traveling circus moving from country to country,” Weisz says. “My son was with [...]
Source: Variety Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz and Robert Pattinson will star in the period drama “Unbound Captives,” with Madeleine Stowe making her directorial debut from a script she wrote.Gil Netter and Grant Hill will produce with Ashok Amritraj’s Hyde Park Entertainment. They are eyeing a year-end production start. Though Stowe’s a newcomer behind the camera, getting the job and landing that cast is a payoff for her risky decision to turn down millions of dollars [...]


