Rachel Brosnahan was born in in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1990 and is an American actress. She is best known for her role as 'Midge' Maisel in the Amazon Prime Video series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017) for which she has won two Golden Globes for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy (2019, 2018), one Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (2018), and one Critics' Choice Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series (2018). She is also known for her previous roles in the film Beautiful Creatures (2013) as Genevieve Duchannes, in the Netflix original series House of Cards (2013) as Rachel Posner, and in the TV series Manhattan (2014) as Abby Isaacs. Rachel is the daughter of Carol (Best) and Earl Brosnahan, who worked in children's publishing. Her mother is English. Her father is an American, of mostly Irish descent. From the age of four, she was raised in Highland Park, Illinois. She has a younger brother and sister. Rachel is the niece of the late handbag designer Kate Spade, who was her father's sister. She attended Wayne Thomas Elementary School, and then Northwood Junior High School. She performed in musical theater during junior high school and high school. At Highland Park High School, she was on the wrestling team for two years and was a snowboarding instructor. When Brosnahan was 16, she took a class with Carole Dibo, the director of Wilmette's Actors' Training Center, and now Brosnahan's manager. She graduated in 2008, and graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2012. Brosnahan was cast in her first movie role as Lisa in the Michael Bay-produced horror movie The Unborn (2009) while she was still in high school. During college, she performed in single episodes of TV series such as Gossip Girl (2007), The Good Wife (2009), Grey's Anatomy (2005), and In Treatment (2008). After college, she began landing recurring roles in series such as The Blacklist (2013), the short-lived Black Box (2014)), and "House of Cards" (2013-15), which brought her career prominence that included an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 2015. Initially booked for two episodes and five lines, she caught Beau Willimon's eye; soon, she was developed into a major character. She also played Abby Isaacs for two seasons on the TV drama series "Manhattan." She first appeared on stage in 2009 in "Up" at the Steppenwolf Theater, which was followed by her Broadway debut in "The Big Knife" with the Roundabout Theater Company in 2013. In 2016 she played Desdemona in "Othello" at New York Theater Workshop opposite David Oyelowo and Daniel Craig. She was cast as the lead role and title character of the Amazon Video series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017), which premiered in 2017. Her performance earned her a Golden Globe and a Critics' Choice award for Best Actress in a Television Series--Musical or Comedy.
Rachel Brown is an actress, known for The God Cafe (2019).
Rachel Brun is an actress, known for Dead Body (2017), Figments (2020) and Traitors.
Rachel Brunner is an actress and director, known for The Mad Hatter (2021), This Is Us (2016) and Budding Prospects (2017).
Rachel Bryan is known for Barun Rai and the House on the Cliff (2021).
Rachel Bud Hughes is an actress, known for Haunted 2: Apparitions (2018) and Haunted 3: Spirits (2018).
Rachel Butera has been entertaining people with impressions, characters, and unique point of view since childhood. As a voiceover artist, she brings characters to life by drawing from years of imitating everyone she meets. On stage, she grips the audience and enrolls them in all the humor and sorrow of growing up in a dysfunctional, middle-class New Jersey family. Rachel was recognized as the world's best female impersonator when she won $5,000 in the Howard Stern Impressions Contest. She now makes regular appearances on the show, and provides the voices of Wanda Sykes, Rosie O'Donnell, Whoopi Goldberg, Cyndi Lauper, Joan Rivers, Jodi Foster and more. Rachel is frequently invited as a guest on productions and podcasts around LA. From impressions on the Raw Dog Comedy Channel, to hosting The Worst Family Ever, to opening for Kevin Pollak, to performing as the celebrity guest at Second City's TMI sketch show, it is her blend of fearlessness, honesty, yet vulnerability that makes Rachel one of today's most endearing and sought-after comedic performers.
Rachel Cabeza is known for Random Acts of Flyness (2018) and New Amsterdam (2018).
Rachel Cairns began her career as an actor and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art where she received her BA. While she continues to act, she has also produced written and/or directed several digital series and short films that have screened in festivals internationally and garnered nominations and awards. When she isn't working, Rachel can be found on the couch, researching mirror neurons, a bag of smart food open at her side.
Rachel was born in Newport News, Virginia. When she was 2-1/2 her family moved to the small town of Hot Springs in Bath County, Virginia. She has been an actress and a singer all of her life, having done numerous theatre productions. Her first love, however, is film and television. She landed her first professional job in 2009 when she portrayed a high school student in a Department of Education film for NAEP Testing. Since then she has done commercials and some print work as well. In 2013, she was featured in Wish You Well (2013) and starred in When Ghosts Attack (2013). Recently she co-starred in House of Horrors: Kidnapped (2014) and Crossing Streets (2016).