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The Winner: Rachel Weisz
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Play CBS Video Video Rachel Weisz On 'Gardener' Since her breakthrough role in 1999's 'The Mummy,' actress Rachel Weisz has shown her versatility in a variety of films. She discussed her new film, 'The Constant Gardener.'
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Rachel Weisz in "The Constant Gardener" (Sony Pictures Classics)
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Rachel Weisz on "The Early Show" (CBS/The Early Show)
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Rachel Weisz with co-star Ralph Fiennes in a still picture from "The Constant Gardener" (Focus Features)
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The Academy Award nomination as best supporting actress for the 2005 thriller "The Constant Gardener" is the first Oscar nod for Weisz.
In January, she picked up the Golden Globe award from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as best supporting actress in a movie for the role.
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In this thriller based on the novel by John le Carre, Weisz plays Tessa Quayle, a human-rights activist in Kenya whose brutal murder sends her diplomat husband, played by Ralph Fiennes, into an international investigation of crime and corruption.
Weisz was born in London on March 7, 1971, and studied at Cambridge University. Moviegoers will remember her appearing with Ralph Fiennes' brother, Joseph Fiennes, in "Enemy at the Gates" in 2001. She also appeared in the blockbuster "The Mummy Returns" in 1999, and she co-starred with Hugh Grant in the comedy "About a Boy," in 2002.
Weisz is also the "face of Revlon" in print advertising.
She now divides her time between London and New York, where she lives with director Darren Aronofsky. Her next major role reportedly will be in a film directed and written by Aronofsky called "The Fountain."
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