Is “scared witless” by amphibians. She hates frogs.

Her last name is pronounce like “vice”.

Has been credited under the name Kenya Campbell.

Her father invented respirators that supplied their own oxygen and machines that sense land mines.

She gave up smoking July 1, 2001.

Is an Elvis Presley fan.

Admires Cate Blanchett and Madonna.

Educated at the prestigious St Paul’s Girls School in London. She was in the same class as actress Emily Mortimer.

Studying English at Cambridge University, Rachel formed the Talking Tongues theater company and at 1991’s Edinburgh Festival won a student drama award for a play she wrote and acted in.

She took piano, clarinet, and cello lessons when she was younger, but admitted to not having talent at them.

When she was thirteen, her mother entered her in a Harpers & Queen’s teenage modeling competition and she won.

Is an ambassador for the World Food Programme.

Dated director Sam Mendes, who is currently married to Kate Winslet.

Drives a Jaguar, which she loves.

She has recently become a patron of The X Appeal, which is the official charity of the Royal College of Radiologists.

Her Austrian-born mother is of part Italian descent.

When asked who her idols were, she named Gena Rowlands, Katharine Hepburn, Jack Nicholson, Shirley MacLaine, Ingrid Bergman, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin.

Was a radical feminist at University.

Good friends with fellow British actors Jude Law and Susan Lynch.

As well as being Jewish, she is of Hungarian, Austrian, and Italian descent.

Is semi fluent in German.

Was raised in a cerebrel Jewish household.

While filming the Mummy movies, she formed a strong friendship with fellow co-stars John Hannah and Oded Fehr. They remain good friends. Very good friends with the Fiennes family having worked with both Joseph Fiennes in Enemy at the Gates (2001) and Stealing Beauty and with Ralph Fiennes in Sunshine (1999) and The Constant Gardener (2005).