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Rachel Weisz

Rachel Weisz

15 films · 1,317 frames · top-billed in 13 · 19962021

Born 7 March 1970 · Westminster, London, England, UK

Rachel Hannah Weisz is an English actress. Known for her roles in independent films and blockbusters, she has received several awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Laurence Olivier Award.

Weisz began acting in stage and television productions in the early 1990s and made her film debut in Death Machine (1994). She won a Critics' Circle Theatre Award for her role in the 1994 revival of Noël Coward's play Design for Living. She went on to appear in the 1999 Donmar Warehouse production of Tennessee Williams' drama Suddenly Last Summer.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 15 films · 1,317 frames · top-billed in 13 · 19962021

  • Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress2006
  • Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture2005
  • BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role2019
  • Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role2006
  • New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress2012
  • Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress2010
  • British Independent Film Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a British Independent Film2005
  • Theatre World Award2002
  • Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress

How their films are shot

Measured across 1,317 frames from the 15 films we hold. This is the look of the work Rachel takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 15 films we hold, 49% of their frames are night, 44% low key — the look of the work Rachel takes.

Time of day

Night49%
Day38%
Golden hour6%
Interior5%

Lighting

Low key44%
Natural42%
High key9%
Silhouette4%

Shot size

Medium45%
Wide24%
Closeup21%
Fullbody6%

Camera angle

Eye level81%
High angle8%
Low angle7%

Mood

Neutral53%
Tense18%
Lonely8%
Mysterious7%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

Often with

Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 1,317 frames from Rachel Weisz's 15 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.