Oscar-winning British actress Rachel Weisz is set to be the star attraction at the BFI London Film Festival – with her movies opening and closing the event.

Her forthcoming movie The Deep Blue Sea – featuring Tom Hiddleston and Simon Russell Beale – has now been confirmed to round off the 55th festival on October 27.

The 41-year-old, married to James Bond star Daniel Craig, appears alongside Jude Law and Sir Anthony Hopkins in 360, which has its European premiere at the event on October 12. It was directed by City Of God film-maker Fernando Meirelles.

In The Deep Blue Sea, an adaptation of Terence Rattigan’s 1952 play, Ms Weisz plays Hestor Collyer, a privileged wife of a judge (Beale) who falls passionately in love with young ex-RAF pilot Freddie Page (Hiddleston).

The romantic drama marks director Terence Davies’s return to fiction feature-making after more than a decade, following his documentary Of Time And The City in 2008.

The festival, backed by American Express, is being held between October 12 to 27.