52 Facts About Rachel Berry

Rachel Barbra Berry is a fictional character and one of the two main protagonists, alongside Mr Schue in the Fox musical comedy-drama series Glee.

Rachel Berry is the glee club star of the fictional William McKinley High School in Lima, Ohio, where the show is set.

Rachel Berry's storylines have seen her suffer peer alienation due to her Broadway ambitions and over-eager personality, but she is very kind-hearted and willing to help even if people do not need it and develop romantic feelings for Jesse St James, a member of rival glee club Vocal Adrenaline, but primarily for quarterback and glee club co-captain Finn Hudson, to whom she eventually becomes engaged.

Rachel Berry is a "strong, driven girl" but somewhat neurotic, and Glee follows Rachel Berry's journey to become more of a team player as well as fulfil her own aspirations.

Rachel Berry received mostly positive reviews from critics: Maureen Ryan of The Chicago Tribune praised Michele for making the character "more than a humorless stereotype", though The Wall Street Journal's Raymund Flandez has described Rachel Berry as "insufferable".

Several songs performed by Michele as Rachel Berry were released as singles, available for digital download, and featured on the show's soundtrack albums.

Rachel Berry's fathers named her after Rachel Green from Friends, and her middle name is in honor of Barbra Streisand.

Rachel Berry joins the newly reconstituted glee club hoping that fame will increase her popularity and help her find a boyfriend.

Rachel Berry is bullied by members of the school cheerleading and football teams, but is pleased when self centered quarterback Finn Hudson joins the club, developing a crush on him.

Rachel Berry has a brief relationship with another glee club member, Puck, who is Jewish, and is a football player who used to bully her, but she breaks up with him due to her continuing feelings for Finn.

Rachel Berry later discovers and reveals to Finn that Quinn's pregnancy was not caused by him, but that Puck is the father; furious, Finn attacks Puck, breaks up with Quinn, and drops out of New Directions.

Rachel Berry tells Jesse that her dream is to find her birth mother and surrogate, and he offers to help her do so.

When Rachel Berry discovers that Shelby is her mother, they both confess to not feeling an immediate attachment and eventually decide not to pursue a relationship.

Rachel Berry tries to win him back, but he instead rekindles his feelings for Quinn and starts dating her.

Just before junior prom, Jesse returns, having flunked out of UCLA, and Rachel Berry invites him to the prom with her, Sam and Mercedes.

At Nationals, as the New Directions are about to go on stage, Finn begs Rachel Berry to get back together with him, but though she professes her love, she refuses, still torn between her love for New York and Broadway and her love for him.

Rachel Berry proposes that McKinley do West Side Story as the school musical, since she believes herself to be a shoo-in for the lead role, Maria, and she needs the experience for her NYADA application.

Mercedes, believing she did better in the callbacks, refuses to accept the double-casting and withdraws from the show, leaving Rachel Berry to be Maria.

Rachel Berry goes even further in the next episode, "I Kissed a Girl", when she stuffs an election ballot box in Kurt's favor to keep him from losing.

Rachel Berry loses anyway, and she confesses: she is suspended from school for a week and forbidden to compete in Sectionals with New Directions, though the glee club wins without her.

Rachel Berry is waiting for Quinn, who had gone home to get her bridesmaid dress, to arrive.

In "Prom-asaurus" Rachel Berry is still upset about her choke and organizes an "anti-prom" with Kurt, Blaine, Becky and Puck.

Rachel Berry later realizes she is missing one of the best nights of her life and attends the prom with Finn and is voted Prom Queen by secret ballot, in a similar situation to Kurt the previous year.

Rachel Berry doesn't give up on her dream and sends Carmen Tibideaux fourteen messages and pesters her to give Rachel Berry another chance at the audition, even driving to one of Tibideaux's tryouts with Tina.

Tibideaux to come and see Rachel Berry perform with New Directions at Nationals in Chicago.

Rachel Berry gets off at Grand Central and walks down the streets of New York.

Rachel Berry meets Brody Weston, a handsome NYADA junior, who encourages Rachel to move on and embrace college life.

Rachel Berry's new look is met with positive reception from others, including Brody, and she invites him over to dinner.

Right after their first kiss, Rachel Berry discovers Finn on her doorstep.

Finn takes off and goes back to Lima where Rachel Berry confronts him and says that even though she loves him, she can no longer stay in their relationship.

Rachel Berry is later shown taking a pregnancy test; Santana, who has recently moved in, snoops and discovers the discarded test, and confronts Rachel, who then bursts into tears.

Rachel Berry later breaks up with Brody after Santana reveals that he is a male escort and is stunned to find out Finn flew to New York just to beat him up.

Rachel Berry is called back for further auditions for the title role, Fanny Brice.

In "The Quarterback", Rachel Berry is devastated with the loss of Finn.

Lee Paulblatt, a Fox Television executive, sees Rachel Berry perform, and is so impressed, he informs her he wants to cast her in an upcoming, untitled television pilot.

Rachel Berry has her meet with famed screenwriter, Mary Halloran, who will be creating the script.

Rachel Berry has the group review Mary's script, and everyone agrees it is terrible.

Rachel Berry meets with Mary and tells her that the lead character does not sound like her.

Mary points out that television viewers want anti-heroes, but Rachel Berry responds by singing, and Mary, uncharacteristically, is moved and made happy by the performance.

Rachel Berry agrees to redo the script, but warns Rachel that the network will never make a pilot from it.

Rachel Berry calls her old friends and former fellow glee club members Quinn, Santana, Brittany, Puck, Artie, Mercedes, and Tina to help her, and Kurt recruits students to join the glee club; he gets one student, Roderick, to audition.

Rachel Berry does make it big on Broadway, marries Jesse, and becomes a surrogate mother to Kurt and Blaine's child.

Rachel Berry then takes a final bow with the rest of the cast.

Rachel Berry is portrayed by Lea Michele, and as a child played by Lauren Boles.

Rachel Berry makes it her way, which is more quirky.

The popular girls find a way to make it look cool, but Rachel Berry makes it look nerdy.

Rachel Berry thinks she's taking a trend and making it cool, but she wears it wrong.

Several songs performed by Michele as Rachel Berry were released as singles, available for digital download, featuring on the soundtracks Glee: The Music, Volume 1 and Glee: The Music, Volume 2.

Rachel Berry said that while he understood this stance, he generally disagreed with it as the show treated male characters equally poorly.

Rachel Berry received another Teen Choice Award nomination in 2010 for "Choice TV Actress: Comedy".

Rachel Berry's cover of The All-American Rejects' "Gives You Hell" reached the top 40 on the US Billboard 200.

Rachel Berry won the 2012 and 2013 People's Choice Award for Favorite TV Comedy Actress.