Rachel trained at Drama Studio London, though her acting career began years earlier when she acted in the National Youth Theatre under artistic director Orit Azaz. Whilst studying for her English degree at Queens’ College, Cambridge she also appeared in many productions.
For Activated Image she has played Stella "Star" Pierce in dream.2000, Mrs.Muir/Mitzi/ensemble in Amy Evans' Strike and Anthon/Kaunitz/Mavis in The Principle of Motion.
Other theatre work includes: Cassandra in Broken (Anna Birch/ Sir John Mills Theatre); Jane in An Afterthought: When Wendy Grew Up (Tony Graham/ Duke of York’s Theatre): Chava in Babel Junction (Suzanne Gorman/Maya Productions); Hermia/Titania/Snug in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Adam Barnard/ Orange Tree Theatre); Morse in One Flea Spare (Rebecca Fifield/Battersea Arts Centre); Rose Tree in The Nightingale And The Rose (Max Key/ Battersea Arts Centre); April in Afterlife (Kelly Wilkinson/Hampstead Theatre); Holly in What if..? (Channel Theatre Company Tour); Gertie in Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer (Hurricane Productions Tour); Lisa in Inside the Outside (Martin Kerem/Jermyn Street Theatre) Lady Augusta in The Daughter of Frankenstein (Zoe Simon/White Bear Theatre); Ophelia in Hamlet (Adam Barnard/USA Tour) and B1 in The B File (Rachel Grunwald/Edinburgh Festival).
For radio she has played Karen and Julie in Macmillan Cancer Relief’s Cost of Cancer Campaign; Katie in Fatal Fall (Simon Rushbrook); and voiced various characters for EFS English language courses.
Television and film credits include playing the lead in a Blood Donation Commercial for the BBC; a scientist in an ident for Experi-mental (Channel 4); Doctor Jackson in Shalom (Martin Kerem/ Mystic Monkey); Huxley’s Fan in Project Huxley (Simon Brown/Mystic Monkey); Gang leader in an Embrace Music Video (MTV); Spacegirl in a Quinn Music Video (Sharpetchy Productions); Karen in Memory Café (winner of the Cambridge Short Film Competition. Dir. Atta Chui) and Alice in Grow Up (dir. Jamie Wolpert).
Rachel teaches drama to children aged 3-10
