# What are the best Rachel Weisz performances of all time?

> Oscar winner and perpetual underrated gem — Weisz has moved effortlessly between blockbuster adventure, art-house drama, and Greek tragedy with rare intelligence. Which performance best captures her range?

*By YPB Team · Published April 11, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/what-are-the-best-rachel-weisz-performances-of-all-time*

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1. **The Mummy (1999)**
   Weisz plays the resourceful librarian Evelyn Carnahan who accidentally awakens an ancient curse alongside Brendan Fraser's adventurer.
2. **The Constant Gardener (2005)**
   Weisz won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as Tessa Quayle, an activist murdered while exposing pharmaceutical corruption in Africa.
3. **The Favourite (2018)**
   Weisz is brilliantly scheming as Sarah Churchill, fighting to maintain her influence over Queen Anne against an upstart rival in Lanthimos's dark comedy.
4. **Agora (2009)**
   Weisz plays Hypatia of Alexandria, the Greek philosopher and mathematician who defied religious authority in ancient Rome.
5. **The Deep Blue Sea (2011)**
   Weisz gives one of her finest performances as Hester Collyer, a judge's wife consumed by a destructive passion for a younger ex-RAF pilot.
6. **The Lobster (2015)**
   Weisz plays a near-sighted woman who falls in love in a dystopian society that forces singles to find a mate or be turned into an animal.
7. **Disobedience (2017)**
   Weisz plays a woman who returns to her Orthodox Jewish community after her rabbi father's death and reconnects with a childhood love.
8. **Black Widow (2021)**
   Weisz plays Melina Vostokoff, a legendary Soviet super-spy and surrogate mother to Scarlett Johansson's Natasha Romanoff.
9. **The Fountain (2006)**
   Weisz plays Izzi Creo, a woman dying of a brain tumor whose husband desperately seeks a cure across three interwoven timelines spanning 1000 years.
10. **Denial (2016)**
   Weisz plays historian Deborah Lipstadt, who must prove the Holocaust happened in a British court against a Holocaust denier's lawsuit.
11. **The Bourne Legacy (2012)**
   Weisz plays a research scientist targeted by the government after Jeremy Renner's government operative comes to her rescue.
12. **Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)**
   Weisz plays Evanora, the seemingly benevolent Emerald City ruler who is secretly the story's most dangerous villain.

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