Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz are hitting the road for a good cause.
The superstar couple made a rare appearance together at George and Amal Clooney’s second annual Albies in New York City; According to the press, it “aims to shed light on brave individuals who dedicate their lives to justice at great personal risk.” release.
Weisz, 53, looked dazzling in an abstract black-and-white patterned floor-length gown as she walked the red carpet with her husband at the New York Public Library on Thursday.
The 55-year-old James Bond actor looked equally dapper in his wide-lapel midnight blue tuxedo, matching bow tie and glasses.
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The second annual Albies (named for Judge Albie Sachs), hosted by George and Amal’s Clooney Foundation for Justice, announced five awards to be given to individuals and organizations from around the world working in human rights, journalism, medicine and more.
Congolese gynecologist and human rights activist Dr. Denis Mukwege and Iranian journalists Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi were also honored, as were Ukrainian rights group Truth Hounds, free speech advocacy group Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression, and Thailand’s Thai Lawyers organization. Human rights.
This year’s star-studded ceremony also included Emily Blunt and John Krasinski, Viola Davis, Julianne Moore, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway, Mary J. Blige, Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, and more.
At last year’s opening of Albies, George told PEOPLE what he loved most about working with his civil rights lawyer wife to create the event. “We cooperate on everything. We cooperated on the twins!” the Ticket to Heaven The actor, who is now 62 years old, said: “But you know, it’s very exciting because Amal has gotten journalists out of Egypt, Azerbaijan, prisons, all over the world, Myanmar.”
The 2022 event was similarly star-studded, with guests including Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep, Dua Lipa, John Oliver, Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa.
George told PEOPLE that Albies and his work with the foundation is something his wife is “really particularly talented at.”
He added, “My dad is a journalist. I have a lot of sympathy for them, and his mom is a journalist, too. So it’s really exciting to me that he’s able to bring out people who have been unfairly accused of doing their job.” [of prison]. So for me, I couldn’t be more proud of my wife.”
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Craig and Weisz first met in 1994 when the young British actors were casting. Les Grandes Horizontals at the National Theater Studio in London. They married in a secret wedding ceremony in June 2011, just six months after they started dating.
In April, Constant Gardener The Oscar winner told Willie Geist about the possibility of working with her husband again one day. Today is Sunday“I guess we’re not going to do that right now.”
Referring to his wife, with whom he shares a 5-year-old daughter, Erdoğan continued: “I think we love our private life as a family, and then we go to work separately.” (Weisz also has a 17-year-old son named Henry with ex Darren Aronofsky; Craig has an adult daughter named Ella Loudon with ex-wife Fiona Loudon.)
black widow The actress told Geist, 48, that she and Craig “really enjoy” acting together, “but I think it’s nicer this way, and it also means we can take turns working. So I can stay home with my family while he works, we can swap. If If we’re both doing something at the same time, it’s probably less ideal,” the actress added.