Canadian actress and model (born 1978)
Rachel Roberts
Born (1978-04-08 ) April 8, 1978 (age 46) Nationality Canadian Spouse
Children 2 Modeling information Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Hair color Blonde Eye color Green Agency
One Management (New York)
Karin Models (Paris)
d'management group (Milan)
Models 1 (London)
View Management (Barcelona)
Iconic Management (Berlin)
Next Model Management (Los Angeles)
Lizbell Agency (Vancouver) [ 1]
Rachel Roberts (born April 8, 1978) is a Canadian model and actress. Roberts has appeared in numerous ad campaigns, most notably for Biotherm Skin Care Products , and she became well known in the United States as the title character in the film Simone .
Career
Roberts was born in Vancouver , British Columbia, Canada. When she began modeling, she began to work for magazines such as Elle , Vogue , Harper's Bazaar , Glamour , Marie Claire and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue of 2000, Victoria's Secret Country 1998, 1999 and Victoria's Secret lookbook 2000, 2001.
Signing on to be skin-care line Biotherm 's official model, she gained even more popularity by posing in campaigns for labels such as Ralph Lauren , Gap , Bottega Veneta , Ferre , Sisley , and Victoria's Secret . She has walked for countless designers such as Chloé , Valentino , Givenchy , Fendi , Blumarine , Roberto Cavalli , Comme des Garçons , Paul Smith and Balmain . She also was seen in the European advertisements of Nivea .
Acting career
Roberts made her film debut as the title character of the movie Simone in 2002 performing opposite Al Pacino . The studio attempted to keep her identity a secret during production, and did not accord her credit in the initial theatrical release, in an effort to maintain the illusion that her character was a virtual computer-created entity. After release her identity became known and she received credit in the video release.[ 2] [ 3] She later married Andrew Niccol , who wrote, produced and directed the film. They have two children: son Jack and daughter Ava.[ 4]
She has guest-starred on such television series as Entourage , Ugly Betty and Numbers . She was given a recurring role on the ABC one-hour drama FlashForward . In 2011, she played Carrera in the movie In Time opposite Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried . She appeared in the series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Karen Chevera in the episode "Unplugged" (2012). She played Soul Fleur in the 2013 movie The Host . Roberts appeared on Mad Men opposite Jon Hamm in the episode "Tale of Two Cities". She starred in Rihanna 's music video "Bitch Better Have My Money " which was released on July 2, 2015. She was cast as Cassandra in Andrew Niccol's sci-fi thriller film Anon . She also portrayed Sharon Tate in the tenth episode of American Horror Story: Cult .
Filmography
Film
Television
Music videos
Agencies
Liz Bell, Vancouver (mother agency)
MODELS 1 London
ONE MANAGEMENT New York
NEXT Los Angeles
D MANAGEMENT Milan
VIEW Spain
ICONIC Berlin
References
^ "Rachel Roberts - Model" .
^ David Germain, "'Simone' Gets A Life of Her Own; Rachel Roberts Emerges as the Real Woman Behind Unbilled Role of a Digital Actress" , The Washington Post , August 24, 2002, via HighBeam Research .
^ Alison Jones, "Culture: Rachel Is an Image of Pixel Perfection; Computers Cannot Replace Real Actors, as Alison Jones Finds out from Rachel Roberts" [dead link ] Birmingham Post , October 30, 2002.
^ "Rachel Roberts and Andrew Niccol welcome daughter" Archived January 16, 2014, at the Wayback Machine , People , March 3, 2008.
External links
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