Rachel began acting at a very young age. She was born in Berkley Heights, New Jersey and moved to New York City at the age of 18. She then studied and graduated from the Barrow Group Acting Conservatory. Rachel has trained in New York City with Patrick Page, Ryan Scott Oliver, Lindsay Mendez, Jen Waldman, Heidi Marshall, Drew Gasparini, and Jamibeth Margolis. In Los Angeles, she has trained with David Gray and currently with Michael Woolson. Rachel is a UCB 401 graduate. In 2017, Rachel originated the role of "Taylor" In New Dawn: The Musical in New York City Off-Broadway. In 2019, Rachel booked a Pilot with Miranda Russo and Alex Blue Davis. It filmed in Los Angeles, where she currently resides.
Rachel Pedley is known for Lady Chatterley's Lover (2022) and Bob (2017).
Rachel Pellinen is known for Cosmic Dawn (2022), Cardinal (2017) and The Stepchild (2016).
Rachel Perkins' Australian Aboriginal heritage (Arrernte/Kalkadoon) has informed her entire filmmaking career. She founded Australia's premier Indigenous production company Blackfella Films in 1992, and has contributed extensively to the development of Indigenous filmmakers in Australia and, more broadly, to the Australian film and television industry. Rachel has directed four feature films: Jasper Jones (nominated for Best Film at the 2017 AACTA Awards), as well as Radiance, One Night the Moon (which received 5 Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards), and the musical Bran Nue Dae which screened at the Sundance, Berlin and Toronto Film Festivals, and achieved a box office of $7.5 million in Australia. Rachel's films have screened at over 75 film festivals worldwide. In 2012 Rachel directed the telemovie Mabo, which screened on ABC1 to mark the 20th anniversary of the historic High Court decision. Mabo was nominated for Most Outstanding Mini Series or Telemovie at the 2013 TV Week Logie Awards. Rachel directed three episodes of the landmark ABC television drama series Redfern Now. The first Australian drama series written, directed and produced by Indigenous Australians, Redfern Now was awarded the 2013 and 2014 TV Week Logies for Most Outstanding Drama Series, and the 2014 AACTA Award for Best Television Drama Series. In 2013 and 2014 Rachel received the Australian Directors Guild (ADG) Awards for Best Direction in a TV Drama Series for her work on Redfern Now. In 2015 she directed the final telemovie instalment of Redfern Now: Promise Me, for which she received the 2015 ADG Award for Best Direction in a TV Drama Series. In 2018 Rachel directed all 6 episodes of the first season of critical and ratings hit Mystery Road for the ABC. In 2019 Rachel directed the 6 x 1 hour ABC drama series Total Control for the ABC, which premiered at Toronto International Film Festival, won the 2019 AACTA Award for Best TV Drama Series, the 2020 MIPCOM Diversify TV's Excellence Award for Representation of Race and Ethnicity (Scripted) and the 2021 Bronze Award for an Entertainment Program (Drama) at the New York Festivals TV & Flm Awards. Rachel also wrote, directed and co-produced the seven-hour documentary series First Australians (2008), which received Australia's top honours including AFI and IF Awards, the UN Media Peace Prize, TV Week Logie, and the Writers and Directors Guild of Australia Awards. First Australians has sold throughout the world and is the highest selling educational title in Australia. In 2014 Rachel completed the documentary Black Panther Woman for SBS, which was a finalist in the Documentary Australia Foundation Award at the Sydney Film Festival. In 2015 she raised funding from a wide variety of sources for the Arrernte Women's Project, an archival recording of the traditional dances of the Arrernte women of Central Australia as a cultural project to preserve a unique cultural tradition. Rachel is currently directing and writing First Wars for SBS, a major historical documentary series about the nation's frontier conflicts. Rachel's other documentary work includes the series Blood Brothers, on which she was one of the writers, directors and producers as well as Spirit to Spirit, an international co-venture of Indigenous partners from New Zealand, Scandinavia, Canada and Australia. With her Blackfella Films business partner, Darren Dale, Rachel Perkins co-curated the film program for the Message Sticks Indigenous Festival at the Sydney Opera House from 2002 until 2011, and in 2012 presented the curated program of Indigenous films Blackfella Films Presents in partnership with major Australian film festivals. Rachel has also curated the film programs for the Corroboree Sydney Indigenous arts festival and the Garma Indigenous Festival. Since 2000, Rachel has been Managing Editor and Publisher of The Black Book Indigenous arts directory which is hosted online by Blackfella Films. Rachel is a Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. She was honoured to receive the inaugural Contribution to Television IF Award at the 2011 Jameson IF Awards. In addition to her experience as an executive producer for both ABC and SBS Television, Rachel has previously served on the Council of the Australian Film Television and Radio School, the NSW Film and Television Office (now Screen NSW), the Australia Film Commission, and was a founding member of the National Indigenous Television Service (NITV). Rachel was a member of the Board of Screen Australia from 2009 to 2013, and a Fellow of The University of Sydney Senate from 2011 to 2013. Rachel currently serves on the Council of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), and the Australian Heritage Council (Department of the Environment and Energy) and, along with other leading Australians active in the corporate, government, Indigenous and philanthropic sectors, Rachel is also on the Board of Jawun, a non-profit organisation which facilitates and manage secondments from the corporate and public sectors to a range of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander partner organisations in urban, regional and remote communities across Australia.
Rachel Petladwala was born on 21 July 1993 in London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for M.I.High (2007), The Complex: Lockdown (2020) and The Complex (2020).
Rachel Petsiavas is known for A Deadly Mistake (2023), Soul Wars and Bae Wolf (2022).
Rachel Pizzolato is a multi-talented, award-winning scientist and Patent-Pending inventor, published writer and poet, fashion and runway model, National Champion Trampolinist, as well as, an actor starring in Discovery Science Channel's - MythBusters Jr. Her inventions have garnered success at the Greater New Orleans Science and Engineering Fair where she won the Grand Award in 2016, 2017, 2018. She has competed in many National and International Competitions such as Broadcom MASTERS (2016, 2017, and 2018) Coolest Projects (2019 & 2020) and ISEF (2019 &2020). In 2016, she was awarded, from MIT, a minor planet named after her called (Pizzolato 33187). Recently, she also won Akron's Global Polymer Academy's National Award in Science and Engineering. Also, her writing has garnered awards from NASA and in 2018, she won the AIAA National NASA essay competition for her article entitled, "Astronauts - The Right Stuff Indeed!" Rachel has walked the fashion runway for internationally renowned designers such as Stevie Boi and Brick Allen and can be seen in print magazines such as Sophisticated Woman and Exalte Magazine. She is also featured in the June 2021 Smith and Gale Magazine and REBEL Magazine. She has won numerous beauty pageants including the 2018 Miss Pre-Teen New Orleans, 2018 Pre-Teen Miss Louisiana State, and 2018 Pre-Teen Greater Gulf States Supreme. Recently, Rachel placed 1st Runner-Up in the 2021 Miss Louisiana Teenage USA. Rachel has a passion for science fiction and enjoys performing at comic cons. Rachel can routinely be seen performing at Wizard World, CyPhaCon, Big Easy Con, and STEM festivals around the country. She has a large array of characters that she enjoys portraying including Catwoman, Electra, and Rosie the Riveter, but she is working on her own original character that will debut in 2022. When not working with the SPCA to promote humane treatment to animals, one of her favorite hobbies is talking with kids and encouraging them to dream big and follow those dreams by participating in the activities that they enjoy and are passionate about!!! She feels that it is extremely important to cultivate young minds and show them that there are people out there that are behind them and want to see them succeed! She wants to show them that if they put their minds to something, there is nothing that can't be accomplished. Rachel wants to instill in them to ask questions and be inquisitive in all areas of their lives. She feels that it is important to encourage kids to explore their interests with a passion! Most of all, she wants to encourage everyone to, "Dream Big!"
Rachel Povse is known for The Homefront (2014), Indiscriminate (2018) and Little Town of Bethlehem (2010).
Rachel Prieto is known for Luz (2019), Death Beach (2016) and Space Raiders (2016).
Rachel Quaintance was born on 7 July 1972 in Moorhead, Minnesota, USA. She is an actress, known for Providence (1999), Ben and Kate (2012) and Superman/Batman: Apocalypse (2010). She has been married to John Quaintance since 25 October 1997. They have two children.