'The Mummy' star Rachel Weisz has become a mummy.

'The Mummy' star Rachel Weisz has become a mummy.
The British actress - who won an Oscar earlier this year (06) for her
supporting role in 'The Constant Gardener' - gave birth to her son on Wednesday in New York City, where the couple live together, spokeswoman Mara Buxbaum told Reuters, adding that mother and child were both "happy, healthy, wonderful." She declined to give further details about the birth or the baby's name reports Reuters

Confirmation of the birth came shortly after Us Weekly magazine broke the news in an account attributed to an unnamed close friend of the actress, and People magazine followed with its own report from the star's publicist.

The boy is the first child for Weisz and her fiancé, 'Requiem For A Dream'
director Darren Aronofsky.
Despite becoming a mum in the same year as winning an Academy Award, Weisz
ruled out naming her first born after the gong.
At the ceremony in March, she said: "We've narrowed it down to a few choices
but Oscar isn't among them."
In January, the 35-year-old actress - who started her career at the ADC
Theatre in Cambridge, England, while studying at university in the city -
revealed she was expecting after finding her ideal man.
She told 'The Tonight Show' host Jay Leno: "I found myself a sophisticated,
educated American. He's not an actor.
"He's travelled the world. He knows where Europe is, unlike a lot of
Americans. He's very cultured, but he's all man."
Meanwhile, Weisz recently revealed that she didn't develop cravings for
bizarre foods during her pregnancy - despite being prepared to eat weird
foods.
She confessed: "I was expecting all the weird things. There's this jar of
pickles sitting in the fridge. It's been there for months and she hasn't
even eaten one."

Weisz, a London native of Hungarian and Austrian parentage, previously appeared in such films as "The Mummy," "Enemy at the Gates" and "Runaway Jury." The dark-haired actress also is a spokeswoman for Revlon cosmetics.

Her next big-screen appearance will be opposite actor Hugh Jackman in "The Fountain," written and directed by Aronofsky. His previous credits include "Pi" and "Requiem for a Dream."

The $35m production, which originally starred Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, had been tipped to premiere at this year's Cannes Film Festival but will now open later this year

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