British actress Rachel Hannah Weisz was born in 1971. She started her acting career at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where she co-founded the theatrical group Cambridge Talking Tongues. She started working in television, appearing in Inspector Morse, the British mini-series Scarlet and Black, and the television movie Advocates II. She made her film debut in Death Machine (1994), but her breakthrough role came in the 1996 movie Chain Reaction, leading to a high-profile role as Evelyn Carnahan-O'Connell in the films The Mummy, in 1999, and The Mummy Returns in 2001. Other notable films featuring Weisz are Enemy at the Gates (2001), About a Boy (2002), Constantine (2005), The Fountain (2006), and Agora (2009). For The Constant Gardener (2005) she received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild award for her supporting role as Tessa Quayle.