Biography
Rachel Grate, an accomplished stage and film actress and President of Grate Artists, Inc., has been captivating Los Angeles audiences for most of her life. She is best known for her role as Beth Novelli in the CBS drama First Monday alongside Joe Mantegna and Linda Purl. Rachel earned a Young Artist Award nomination for her guest appearance on the television series ER and has appeared on numerous other shows, including MADtv, Mr. Show, and Judging Amy. After graduating with Honors in Acting from UC Irvine, she guest-starred on NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, The Young and the Restless, and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Her film credits include Camilla Dickinson, Modern Problems, Norm of the North, and Shoot the Moon, for which she won Best Supporting Actress at the Rome International Film Festival. She served as an executive producer on the feature Sugar, directed by Rotimi Rainwater, a film focused on raising awareness about youth homelessness in America. Rachel also collaborates with Cooking with Gabby, a nonprofit dedicated to teaching children the importance of healthy eating and exercise. She appears in several high-profile commercials, including a long-running Allstate campaign with Dennis Haysbert and as Annie, the social media intern, in Jack in the Box’s popular ads. Active in Los Angeles theater, Rachel was recently nominated for an LA Stage Alliance Ovation Award for her role as Rebellious Kay in The Pliant Girls. Her company, Grate Artists, Inc., produced the January 2015 run of The Pliant Girls at the Colony Theatre in Burbank.
