Rachel Jessica Huxtable

Background

She grew up in Melbourne, Australia and graduated from university with a degree in drama.

Career

She began her career as an actress in 2004 in role on American Broadcasting Company sereies Scooter: Secret Agent, followed by roles on Australian feature film Hating Alison Ashley, starring Saskia Burmeister and Delta Goodrem. She also played the role of Dorothy in Melbourne Fringe Festival 2008 show We"re Office To See Van Gogh and went on to star in numerous primetime Australian television series including Neighbours, Thank God You"re Here, Wilfred and more. Huxtable made a second appearance in Neighbours in 2012 as Belinda Ferry.

Huxtable produced her first film Sandwich in 2010 in which she also plays the lead, Kelly.

The film debuted at the Dungog Festival in May 2011. In 2009, she founded film production company PMU Productions and in 2013, she founded eatbeautiful.org, a health and wellness company dedicated to helping women in search of inner health and happiness.

Achievements

• She went on to write, produce and star in the film Foreign Evie in 2012 which won Silver at the annual American College of Surgeons Awards for Cinematography in the Ficitonal Shorts Category.