Weber was born in
London, England, to Susan Ann Caroline (née Coriat), a
British socialite, and husband Thomas Evelyn "Tommy" Weber (originally Thomas Ejnar Arkner), a racing driver who also came from a wealthy family. His father was born in
Denmark, of
Danish and
English descent. Weber's maternal grandfather, Robert Coriat, who was born in
Mogador,
Morocco, was of
Sephardic Jewish (
Moroccan-Jewish) descent. Weber's maternal grandmother, Priscilla Weigall, was
English, from an upper-class family. Priscilla's father was
Sir William Ernest George Archibald Weigall, 1st Baronet, while Priscilla's maternal grandfather was
Sir John Blundell Maple, 1st Baronet. Weber has one sibling, a brother Charley. In 1971, Weber's father took him and his brother to stay for a period at
Villa Nellcôte, where the
Rolling Stones were recording
Exile on Main St. In a 2010 article for
The Times, Weber recalled that his "father used him as a drug mule to bring cocaine out for
Mick and
Bianca Jagger's wedding." Weber attended
Summerhill School,
Leiston,
Suffolk. Later, he went to the
United States to study at
Middlebury College in Vermont, where he sang
a cappella with the
Dissipated Eight and majored in English literature and political science, graduating with a
B.A. cum laude in 1986. He attended
The Juilliard School's Drama Division as a member of
Group 19 (1986–1990), which also included
Laura Linney and
Jeanne Tripplehorn. He also studied at
Russia's famed
Moscow Art Theatre. At the 2010
Cannes film festival, as part of the Directors' Fortnight at the launching of the rock 'n roll documentary,
Stones in Exile, singer
Mick Jagger spoke to the crowd about the months of drug-fuelled recording sessions that produced the Stones' classic 1972 album
Exile on Main Street. Jagger joked about the rarely seen original footage that reveals eight-year-old Weber rolling marijuana joints for them. Weber has reportedly stated that his drug-dealing father brought him to
Keith Richards's rented French villa,
Nellcôte, in the seaside town of
Villefranche-sur-Mer near
Nice, where the Stones were recording the album. ==Career==