Rachel Weisz - Paola Kudacki Photoshoot 2009

Rachel Weisz (born March 7, 1971) is an Academy Award-winning English actress. Weisz was born in London, England and grew up in Hampstead. Her father, George Weisz, is a Hungarian-born inventor whose family fled to England to escape Nazi persecution. Her mother, Edith, is a Vienna-born Austrian psychoanalyst and aspiring actress. Weisz's father is Jewish and her mother has been referred to as either Catholic, Jewish, or having Jewish ancestry. Weisz refers to herself as Jewish.