Rachel Weisz has won her first Bafta as she was named best supporting actress for her role in the royal drama The Favourite at the awards ceremony in London on Sunday night.

The actress, who has been nominated for the same in the Oscars later this month, plays the Duchess of Marlborough who vies for influence in the court of Queen Anne.

Weisz, 49, recently starred as the estranged daughter of a rabbi who is embroiled in a lesbian relationship in the film adaptation of Naomi Alderman’s novel Disobedience.

She was last nominated for a Bafta in 2006, as best supporting actress for The Constant Gardener, for which she won an Oscar that year.

Spider Man: Into the Spider Universe, co-directed by Rodney Rothman, won the Bafta for best animated film.

Mr Rothman has speculated that Spider Man’s alter ego, Peter  Parker, is “probably” Jewish.