Rachel Weisz

Rachel Weisz plays Evelyn in The Shape of Things. David Jays's review takes the performance for brilliantly layered, prickly and tetchy and oddly sorrowful, a reading that holds every possibility open. Michael Atkinson writes that in The Fountain, from 2006, she and her co-lead labour like dray horses to raise an emotional boil out of almost nothing, and finds her affecting as ever with her husky giggle and dark eyes. Kim Newman has Keanu Reeves explaining events to a genuinely baffled Weisz in Constantine, and the same critic calls her nicely bedraggled in The Mummy of 1999. One further institutional record sits beside the reviews, from another country's national awards: the Spanish film academy made her a nominee for best leading actress on Alejandro Amenabar's Agora, from 2009, a film that won seven Goyas without that category among them.