Baby boy for Rachel

Baby joy: Rachel Weisz
11 April 2012
The Weekender

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British actress Rachel Weisz has had a baby boy

The Oscar-winner, who is engaged to director Darren Aronofsky, gave birth to the couple's first child on Wednesday in New York.

All three were said to be happy and healthy.

There was no word on the baby's name or weight.

Weisz, 35, first revealed she was pregnant in January, when she blurted out the news on US TV.

She told Jay Leno's Tonight Show the couple had had to put their marriage plans on hold.

"I'm supposed to have organised the wedding but we got a little ahead of ourselves," the star said.

"It's a slightly modern situation. I'm trying to figure it out now."

Weisz also spoke of her love for Aronofsky, 37, who went to Harvard, and came up with the concept for the successful film Pi.

"I found myself a sophisticated, educated American," she said.

"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."

The actress moved to New York to live with Aronofsky in 2002 after a year of dating.

Backstage at the Academy Awards earlier this year, Weisz said she and her fiance had narrowed their favourite baby names down to a few choices.

But the Cambridge-educated beauty, who picked up a supporting actress gong for her role as a political activist in The Constant Gardener added: "Oscar isn't amongst them, for sure."

Later this year she will appear in The Fountain, directed by Aronofsky.
He wrote and directed 2000's Requiem for a Dream.

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