Britain’s Rachel Weisz has been named best actress at this year’s Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards for appearing in A Streetcar Named Desire.
Mark Rylance was named best actor for Jerusalem, while Jude Law accepted the best Shakespearean performance prize for playing the title role in Hamlet.
Musical Spring Awakening, which ran for a short time in the West End last year, picked up the best musical accolade.
This year’s awards were handed out at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London.
The event coincided with the final South Bank Show Awards, where Weisz and Rylance were also honoured.
‘Most discerning’
Oscar-winner Weisz received her prize for playing fading beauty Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire at the Donmar Warehouse.
The Critics’ Circle previously named her most promising newcomer in 1994 for her work in Noel Coward’s Design for Living, staged at the same central London theatre. Read more… »
Rachel Weisz has opened up about her upcoming film projects for 2010.
The Lovely Bones star has revealed that she has a busy year ahead of her since she’s been travelling the world to film multiple roles for movies being released this year, STV reports.
The 39-year-old actress said: “Well I just finished shooting The Whistleblower for a first time director Larysa Kondracki and we just finished that last week in Romania.
“It’s a true story about a woman who went to work in Bosnia at the end of the nineties and blew the whistle on the UN.”
Weisz will also star in the historical drama Agora, in which she admitted she didn’t use a body double for her multiple nude scenes.
She added: “It is a story set in fourth century Alexandria about a woman named Hypatia. It is a true story about a woman who is a philosopher.”
The Lovely Bones is currently playing in US cinemas and arrives in the UK on January 29.
RACHEL Weisz says cuddling her son helps her deal with stress.
The British actress — who raises Henry, 3, with fiance Darren Aranofsky — had some traumatic storylines to cover in her new movie The Lovely Bones and she says her family were the best antidote to a bad day filming.
“When I was making The Lovely Bones I had the perfect way to de-stress after an emotionally difficult day. Henry my son was a little one-year-old bubby when we were shooting it, so having a little one to go home and cuddle every night and play with was the perfect way to de-stress.
“You just forget any of the bad fictional things you have been thinking about all day Henry is so beautiful he takes your mind off anything.”
RACHEL Weisz felt like an “idiot” when she first met fiance Darren Aranofsky.
The actress — who now as a three-year-old son with the Requiem for a Dream director — admits she was so nervous ahead of their first meeting, she tried to impress him by playing down her star status.
“I didn’t want this cool indie director to see me in this stretch limo! But as I stepped out, he was waiting there,” Rachel recalled. “I was like, ‘Argh! S*t!’ I felt like such an idiot.” Read more… »
As soon as I laid eyes on the first trailer for Peter Jackson’s “Lovely Bones” big screen adaptation, I was in love. The visuals were almost as stunning as the three generations of actresses — Susan Sarandon, Rachel Weisz, Saoirse Ronan — the comprised The Salmon family. Then I saw the movie and to call it a major disappointment would be an understatement of biblical proportions. Read more… »
The star of The Mummy and The Lovely Bones beat Keira Knightley into second place, while Kate Winslet was third. Jordan, the pneumatic glamour model, received just one vote in the poll by Esquire magazine.
Dawn French, the comedian and actress, topped the list of the best women to go for a drink with, while Cheryl Cole was named the woman who men would most like to sleep with.
Weisz, 39, professed herself thrilled with the accolade.
“Oh my God! Really? That’s so funny. I’m marriable. But I’m not married!” she said, joking: “I was getting worried that the men didn’t like me any more, but your readers’ poll puts my mind at rest.” Read more… »
It’s been a busy year for Rachel Weisz. The British actress stars in the much anticipated film The Lovely Bones, playing a mother coming apart at the seams after her daughter’s tragic death. Director Peter Jackson has described Rachel as fearless, a title she’s not too comfortable with.”Really? Because I feel quite scared quite often,” Rachel tells Redbook magazine. Read more… »
Rachel Weisz is lucky to have the adoration of her director fiance Darren Aronofsky. The couple are parents to son Henry, 2.
“He’s amazing,” Rachel, 37, says. “He’s so cute.”
Their little guy has a naughty side. Read more… »
Rachel Weisz has revealed she feels much happier about her body since having a baby. “I feel so much sexier. It makes you feel a lot more appreciative of your body and what it’s capable of doing. I’ve got a lot more respect for it.”
The actress, 39, has admitted that she’s much more confident now than she was in her 20s. “My 20s were horrible. I felt I didn’t know anything and worried about everything,” she said. “As you get older, you learn to let go of a few things. You come to know your own mind, values and morality.” Read more… »
