Rachael Atlanta Stirling was born on 30 May 1977 and is an English stage, film and television actress.
23 Facts About Rachael Stirling
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Rachael Stirling has been nominated twice for the Laurence Olivier Award for her stage work.
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Rachael Stirling played Nancy Astley in the BBC drama Tipping the Velvet, and Millie in the ITV series The Bletchley Circle.
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Rachael Stirling has guest starred in Lewis and one episode of Doctor Who, co-starring with her mother Diana Rigg.
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Rachael Stirling's parents married in 1982 and divorced in 1990.
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Rachael Stirling graduated with a BA in art history from the University of Edinburgh, where she performed with the Edinburgh University Theatre Company.
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Rachael Stirling made her first major appearance on stage in 1997 as Desdemona in the National Youth Theatre revival of Othello at the Arts Theatre opposite Chiwetel Ejiofor in the title role.
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Rachael Stirling next appeared in a variety of roles in plays such as Dusty Hughes' Helpless ; A Woman of No Importance ; Anna in the Tropics ; and Tamburlaine, and she followed in her mother's footsteps as Lionheart's daughter in the National Theatre stage version of Theatre of Blood.
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Rachael Stirling starred onstage in The Priory directed by Jeremy Herrin at the Royal Court Theatre in 2009.
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Rachael Stirling starred as Lady Chiltern in a 2010 production of An Ideal Husband at the Vaudeville Theatre, for which she received her second nomination for a Laurence Olivier Award.
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Rachael Stirling played the young Rebeccah, with her mother, Diana Rigg, as the older Rebeccah.
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Rachael Stirling portrayed Millie in both series of the ITV mystery drama The Bletchley Circle in 2012 and 2014, and reprised the role in The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco.
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Rachael Stirling appeared in a 2013 episode of Doctor Who titled "The Crimson Horror" alongside her mother.
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In 2014, Rachael Stirling portrayed Kate Wilkinson in the Cold War spy thriller television series The Game,.
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Rachael Stirling appeared as a main character in the BBC Four comedy drama Detectorists as Becky, initially girlfriend, then wife, of Andy, featuring alongside her mother, Diana Rigg, who played Becky's mother.
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Rachael Stirling appeared as a guest on the BBC1 cookery programme Saturday Kitchen Live which was broadcast on 1 March 2014.
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In 2015, Rachael Stirling played the part of Arabella Yount, the spendthrift wife of a banker, in the three-part BBC series Capital based on John Lanchester's novel of the same name.
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In December 2016, Rachael Stirling appeared on University Challenge at Christmas as part of a team made up of notable alumni of the University of Edinburgh.
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Rachael Stirling is an occasional interviewer on the BBC Radio 4 chat show Loose Ends, and presented the station's programme Stage Door in December 2012.
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Rachael Stirling took part in Occupy London's reading of Dickens' A Christmas Carol on the steps of St Paul's Cathedral, London in December 2011.
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In 2014, Rachael Stirling appeared as a guest on BBC Radio 4's Midweek with Libby Purves, Roger Bannister and Kevin Warwick.
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Rachael Stirling can speak Russian and is experienced in horse riding and jumping.
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Rachael Stirling married musician and Elbow frontman Guy Garvey on 3 June 2016.