Rachel Brosnahan

Rachel Brosnahan

actress, producer, executive

Rachel Brosnahan was born on Jul 12, 1990 in USA. Rachel Brosnahan's big-screen debut came with The Unborn directed by David S. Goyer in 2009. Rachel Brosnahan is known for The Courier directed by Dominic Cooke, Vladimir Chuprikov stars as Nikita Khrushchev and Merab Ninidze as Oleg Penkovsky. Rachel Brosnahan has got 14 awards and 24 nominations so far. The most recent award Rachel Brosnahan achieved is IMDb Awards. The upcoming new movie Rachel Brosnahan plays is Dead for a Dollar which will be released on Sep 30, 2022.

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 La fabuleuse Mme 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 Sublimes créatures (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 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 En analyse (2008). After college, she began landing recurring roles in series such as 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 La fabuleuse Mme 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.

  • Birthday

    Jul 12, 1990
  • Place of Birth

    Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
  • Also known

    레이철 브로스너핸

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Awards

14 wins & 24 nominations

IMDb Awards
2020
Fan Favorite
Winner - STARmeter Award
Screen Actors Guild Awards
2020
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
Winner - Actor
2020
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
Winner - Actor
2019
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
Winner - Actor
2019
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
Winner - Actor
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