Rachel Nichols

Born on January 8, 1980, in Augusta, Maine, Rachel Emily Nichols is an American actress and model. Her father is Jim, a school teacher and her mother is Alison Nichols. She did her schooling from Cony High School. She graduated in economics, psychology, and drama, graduating from Columbia University.

Rachel got married to Scott Stuber, a film producer in 2008 and separated from him after seven months due to irreconcilable differences. She married Michael Kershaw, a real estate developer in September 2014. This New York Click to look into! >> Read More... Beauty never intended to pursue modeling as a career. While studying at Columbia, she was discovered by a modeling agent and invited her to Paris and steered her career into modeling.

She modeled for various brands such as Abercrombie & Fitch, L'Oréal, and Guess. She used her modeling paychecks to fund her college education and graduated from Columbia in 2003. Nichols made her acting debut in 2000 and did a bit part in the movie Autumn in New York. It followed by a one-episode role in the TV show Sex and the City. In 2003, she had her first major role as a student reporter in the flick Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd. In 2004, she was cast as the member of a debate team of a high school in the film Debating Robert Lee .

She also endeavored into a  role in the crime drama television series Line of Fire. She acted for two episodes in this show. She continued to star in supporting roles in The Amityville Horror, The Woods and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2.In 2007 , she starred in another horror thriller movie “P2” as a woman getting trapped inside a parking garage with a psychopathic security guard.

She played an Orion cadet in 2009 Star Trek Click to look into! >> Read More... movie and an intelligence agent in the flick G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. Nichols was cast as a rookie FBI in the TV show The Inside which was her first regular television role but the series was dropped after 13 episodes due to low ratings.

She got her breakthrough in television when she was cast as Rachel Gibson, a computer expert in the fifth season of Alias. She continued to star in hit shows such as Criminal Minds Criminal Minds is an American police crime fiction >> Read More... , Continuum, and Chicago Fire. She also guest-starred in an episode of Witches of East End and as a recurring character in the show Rush. Rachel won the ITVFest award for Best Actress for Underwater and the Constellation Award for Best Female Performance in Continuum.