Rachel Weisz Stars as Jacqueline Kennedy in Upcoming Film 'Jackie'

According to reports from EW.com, Academy Award winning actress Rachel Weisz will star in the upcoming film "Jackie."

Weisz will play Jacqueline Kennedy in the film directed by Darren Aronosky and written by Noah Oppenheim.

"Jackie" tells the story of the Jacqueline Kennedy in the days after President Kennedy's assassination, following the First Lady as she goes from Dallas and through her husband's funeral.

In 2001, Weisz starred opposite Hugh Grant in the hit "About a Boy" and continued to garner leading roles in Hollywood productions. Her performance in "The Constant Gardener" (2005) won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, along with other major motion picture awards.

Her breakthrough stage role was that of Gilda in Welsh director Sean Mathias's 1995 West End revival of Noel Coward's 1933 play DESIGN FOR LIVING at the Gielgud Theatre. Her other stage work includes the role of Catherine in a London production of Tennessee Williams' SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER and Evelyn in Neil LaBute's THE SHAPE OF THINGS at The Almeida Theatre. In 2009 she played Blanche DuBois in a Donmar revival of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, for which she won the Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Actress.  She additionally won the 2010 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Play for the production, which transferred to the West End.

Weisz and Aronosky are engaged, and last worked together on "The Fountain."

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