Creator / Rachel Blanchard

Rachel Elise Blanchard (born March 19, 1976 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian actress. Starting out as a child acting in the early 1980s, she is likely best known for her roles in Peep Show and You Me Her but has had many credits from other TV shows, along with films. She is married to American Jeremy Turner, an award-winning composer and musician who's a multi-instrumentalist.

Selected filmography:

• The Kids of Degrassi Street (1984-5) as Melanie (2 episodes)
• War Of The Worlds (1988-90) as Debi McCullough (main role)
• Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1990-93) as Kristen (main role)
• Clueless (1996-99) as Cher Horowitz (lead role)
• The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999) as Monica Jones (supporting role)
• Road Trip (2000) as Tiffany Henderson (supporting role)
• Sugar & Spice (2001) as Hannah Wald (main role)
• 7th Heaven (2002-04) as Roxanne Richardson (main role)
• Without a Paddle (2004) as Flower (supporting role)
• Peep Show (2004-07) as Nancy (recurring role)
• Where the Truth Lies (2005) as Maureen O'Flaherty (main role)
• Snakes on a Plane (2006) as Mercedes Harbont (main role)
• Daydream Nation (2010) as Ms. Budge (supporting role)
• Fargo (2014) as Kitty Nygaard (recurring role)
• You Me Her (2016-20) as Emma Trakarsky (main role)
• The Summer I Turned Pretty (2022-) as Susannah Fisher (main role)

Tropes in her work include:

• The Danza: Three of the characters she's played are also named Rachel.
• Fake American: She's played lots of Americans in her roles.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: A natural blonde, many of her characters are also sweet people.
• Ms. Fanservice: She's had a fair number of roles which involved sex scenes and or nudity.

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