What’s Rachel Weisz Up To?

Actress Rachel Weisz is currently filming The Light Between Oceans, based on the M.L. Stedman novel of the same title. It’s about a lighthouse keeper (Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave) and his wife who rescue a baby from an adrift rowboat and raise her as their own daughter. Weisz plays Hannah, a woman on the mainland who is mourning the mysterious loss of her husband and their two-month old daughter, Grace.

Weisz is also working on two untitled projects – one directed by Maria Full of Grace’s Joshua Marston, the other about yachtsman Donald Crowhurst (Colin Firth). With another Colin (Farrell), Weisz has a role in the forthcoming film “The Lobster,” which is set in a dystopian future where “single people are obliged to find a matching mate in 45 days or are transformed into animals and released into the woods.: Weisz is listed as “the short sighted woman.”