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The most interesting characters are those you're drawn to, then repelled by, and then come to understand. All that tension - I live that. But I don't plan the tension. It's just something that should happen.

Rachel Weisz

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Rachel Weisz
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: March 7
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City of Westminster
Rachel Hannah Weisz
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