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Rachel Hannah Weisz pronounced /ˈvaɪs, like the word "viceborn 7 March 1970 is an English film and theatre actress and fashion model. She started her acting career at Trinity Hall, Cambridge University, where she co-founded the theatrical group Cambridge Talking Tongues. The group was awarded the Student Drama Award for the improvised piece Slight Possession during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe by The Guardian.
Weisz started working in television, appearing in Inspector Morse, the British miniseries The Scarlet and the Black, and the television movie Advocates II. She made her film debut in the 1994 film Death Machine, 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, About a Boy, Constantine, The Fountain and The Constant Gardener, for which she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role.
Weisz also worked on theatre. Her stage breakthrough was the 1994 revival of Noel Coward's play Design for Living, which earned her the 'London Critics' Circle Award for the most promising newcomer. Weisz's performances also include the 1999 Donmar Warehouse production of Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer, and the 2006 revival of A Streetcar Named Desire. Her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in the latter play earned her the Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Actress of 2009.
Contents
* 1 Early life and background
* 2 Career
o 2.1 Films
+ 2.1.1 1992–1998
+ 2.1.2 1999–2003
+ 2.1.3 2004–2009
+ 2.1.4 2010–present
o 2.2 Theatre
o 2.3 Awards and honours
+ 2.3.1 Film
+ 2.3.2 Theatre
* 3 Personal life
* 4 Filmography
* 5 References
* 6 External links

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anna paquin new zealand actress

Anna Helene Paquin pronouncedpækwɪn/; born July 24, 1982 is a Canadian-born New Zealand actress. Paquin's first critically successful film was The Piano, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1994 at the age of 11 the second youngest winner in history.Her acting career took off almost half a decade later when she appeared in a string of successful films including She's All That, Almost Famous and the X-Men franchise.
Paquin has received critical acclaim for her role as Sookie Stackhouse in the HBO series True Blood, for which she won the 2008 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama.
Contents
1 Life and career
o 1.1 Early life
o 1.2 Child actress
o 1.3 X-Men and beyond
o 1.4 Theatrical career
o 1.5 Personal life
* 2 Filmography
* 3 Theatre credits
* 4 References
* 5 External links
Life and career
Early life
Paquin was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, the daughter of Mary Paquin (née Brophy), an English teacher and native of Wellington, New Zealand, and Brian Paquin, a high school physical education teacher. Paquin is the youngest of three children; she has two older siblings: a brother, Andrew, a director, born in 1977, and a sister, Katya, born in 1980 Paquin's family moved to New Zealand when she was four. She attended the Raphael House Rudolf Steiner School until she was eight or nineHer musical childhood hobbies in New Zealand included playing the viola, cello and piano. She also participated in gymnastics, ballet, swimming and downhill skiing, though she did not have any hobbies related to acting
While in New Zealand, Paquin attended Hutt Intermediate School from . Having begun her secondary education in Wellington at Wellington Girls' College, she completed her high school diploma at Windward School in Los Angeles, where she moved with her mother following her parents' divorce in 1995 She graduated from Windward School in June 2000 and completed the school's community service requirement by working in an LA soup kitchen and at a special education center. She studied at Columbia University for one year, but has since been on a leave of absence to continue her acting career.

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Elisha Cuthbert candian film and television actress

Elisha Ann Cuthbert born November 30, 1982 is a Canadian film and television actress. Cuthbert is known as the former co-host of the Canadian children's television series Popular Mechanics for Kids. In 1998, she had her first film role in Airspeed. She followed this up in 2003 with a role in Old School. Her most prominent role is as Kim Bauer in the American action-thriller television series 24. She is currently starring as Alex on the ABC comedy series Happy Endings.
Contents
* 1 Early life
* 2 Career
o 2.1 Early career
o 2.2 2002–2005: Commercial success
o 2.3 2006–2007: Career transition
o 2.4 2008–present: Current and future projects
* 3 In the media
* 4 Personal life
* 5 Filmography
* 6 Awards
* 7 References
* 8 External links
Early life
Cuthbert was born in Calgary, Alberta, the daughter of Patricia, a homemaker, and Kevin, an automotive design engineer She has two younger siblings, Jonathan and Lee-Ann, and she grew up in Greenfield Park, near Montreal, Quebec. In 2000, she graduated from Centennial Regional High School and moved to Los Angeles at the age of 17 to pursue an acting career.citation needed
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Elisha Cuthbert

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Elisha Cuthbert candian film and television actress