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RACHAEL LEIGH COOK BIOGRAPHY |
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Rachael was born October 4, 1979, in Minneapolis,
Minnesota, and graduated from high school in Spring 1998.
Rachael got her first acting role when she was around seven in a
non-speaking part in a public service announcement encouraging
adults to become foster parents. Rachael began doing modeling
advertisements at the age of ten, and probably her best known
for doing spots for Target and Milkbone. She also appeared in a
now-famous anti-drug TV spot in which, armed with a frying pan,
she bashed her way through a kitchen to show the disastrous
effects of heroin.
On reaching L.A., Cook bypassed the wannabe stage and nailed her
first audition (for the part of a budding entrepreneur in Baby-Sitters
Club, The (1995)). She returned to theaters three months later
in the Jonathan Taylor Thomas vehicle Tom and Huck (1995), then
filled her calendar with appearances in independent and made-for-TV
movies. She divided her time between Minneapolis and Tinseltown,
shuttling from school events to movie shoots with her mother in
tow. Cook's starlet status crystallized in 1999, when she
starred opposite Freddie Prinze Jr. in the Pygmalion retelling
She's All That (1999). She won acclaim also as Becky Thatcher in
Tom and Huck, starring opposite Jonathan Taylor Thomas ("Home
Improvement"). However before catching the eye of the nation,
she was a model for print ads for about four years. Her spots in
the Target Stores ad and on the cover of a Milkbone dog biscuit
box are probably her best known ones.
Rachael has gone on to make 11 movies in just 3 years, including
Carpool, Living Out Loud and Strike. Other films that she has
done recently include Hi-Line, an independent film, The
Bumblebee Flies Anyway, a teen drama set in a hospital that also
stars Elijah Wood, and The Naked Man, a comedy about sumo
wrestling written by Ethan Coen. She signed for a handful of
plum follow-up roles, including a troubled adolescent in
Sylvester Stallone's Get Carter (2000), a frontier gal in Texas
Rangers (2001), and the caterwauling lead in the live-action
version of Josie and the Pussycats (2001). Rachael is passionate
about art, especially drawing, and she would like to eventually
try screen writing and has co-produce an independent film
entitled "Tangled". Rachael enjoys reading, writing, tennis,
roller blading, and shopping for clothes. |
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