Rachel Alig is a US actress who has been in the business for more than a decade now. As adept in dramatic roles, as she is in comedic ones, Rachel has established herself as a gifted and versatile actor who never disappoints.
Rachel is constantly striving to hone her craft and become the best possible actress that she can be. She has studied acting at several schools and institutes, including the prestigious Lee Strasberg Theater & Film Institute, Lesley Hahn and Company, The Groundlings Theater & School, and Margie Haber Studios.
An alumnus of Dixie Heights High School, Fort Mitchell, KY, Rachel holds a BA (Fine Arts) in Electronic Media, with a specialization in journalism. She is of German ancestry.
Rachel Alig’s career
Rachel started acting in 2010, landing her first role in the TV show Pocket Dial (2011). She spent the next few years developing her skills in a wide variety of movies, TV shows, and music videos before guest-starring in three episodes of the TV show La Verdad: Beginnings (2012-2013).
Throughout the 2010s Rachel continued to build up her filmography, starring in the indie movie The Good Karma Club (2015), the popular TV show My Crazy Ex (2014-present), and the baby-boomer comedy Carbon Dating (2015).
Rachel had a major breakout role as the scarred, deeply disturbed Shelley in the horror movie The Cleaning Lady (2018). Demonstrating a dramatic depth and an ability to chill the blood not seen in previous roles, Rachel really demonstrated her stunning range with this unconventional role.
Rachel soon landed a string of recurring roles across multiple shows. She appeared in the satirical online news show News Done Right from 2017 to 2019, and began a long-standing association with the military streaming service “VET Tv”. Starring as Corporal Rachel Foxx in The Shop (2018), Rachel and her cast-mates brought some levity to military television with a comedy about those who do not end up on the frontlines.
This was followed by a starring role in The Bet (2019), in which she played an obnoxious sergeant who enters the titular bet in order to support her indolent mother.
Rachel distinguished herself again as confused wife Nene Weaver in First Blush (2020), a drama examining the complexities involved in maintaining an unconventional polyamorous relationship. Rachel drew unanimous praise as a woman who finds herself in love with both her husband and another woman.
Rachel continues to demonstrate her unflagging professional diligence, having, to date, 118 credits on her IMDB filmography. What comes next is unclear but we know this much – you’ll be seeing plenty more of Rachel Alig on screens both silver and small!
Rachel Alig’s 4 best TV shows/movies
With such a prolific career it’s hard to narrow Rachel’s roles down to a mere four, but we’re here to give it a shot!
The Cleaning Lady (2018)
A lot of the greats have hidden their famous features behind masks and prosthetics for big roles – think John Hurt in Elephant Man, Gary Oldman in Hannibal, or Hugo Weaving in V for Vendetta – and Rachel was no exception in her remarkable turn as an unhinged cleaning lady in this 2018 shocker. In a ‘be careful what you wish for’ storyline reminiscent of Takashi Miike’s disturbing classic Audition, the lovelorn Alice (Alexis Kendra, also co-writing) struggles to break off an affair with a married lover after it transpires he will not leave his wife for her. In order to take her mind off her romantic travails, she befriends a scarred cleaning lady (Alig) and tries to bring her out of her shell. Unfortunately, she finds out too late that sometimes, scars are not only skin-deep…
Rachel Alig is truly phenomenal in this gut-wrenching psychological thriller that calls to mind 90s classics of the genre such as Single White Female and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle. Her nuanced performance – by turns timid, awkward, and completely terrifying – is one for the ages, and we cannot recommend checking out this hidden classic enough!
The Shop (2018)
In an amusing look at soldiers that are not quite on the frontlines, this Office-esque mockumentary looks at the logistics staff that support the frontline combatants of the US Army. The oddball collection of misfits, losers and borderline sociopaths that make up the eponymous shop.
Rachel brings guffaws aplenty with her turn as Corporal Rachel Foxx, a chipper, insensitive soldier who believes herself the superior to her comrades and her, well, superiors. A very different performance to her chilling role in The Cleaning Lady, this is one that military vets and civilians alike can enjoy.
The Bet (2019)
In another stint on the military streaming service Vet Tv, Rachel Alig brings more laughs than screams in this role as a bolshy sergeant who is determined to beat her squadmates in a high-stakes bet in order to support her mother.
Rachel’s ability to deadpan in the most absurd situations brings plenty of laughs to this military comedy, and though it lacks the dramatic gravitas of some of her other roles, it nicely highlights Rachel’s razor-sharp and comedic timing.
First Blush (2020)
After some stellar comedic performances, Rachel returns to another dramatic role – albeit one that could not be further away from her terrifying role in The Cleaning Lady.
In First Blush, Rachel plays the happily married Nena Weaver whose world is turned upside down when she and her husband meet a young woman named Olivia. In a development none of them could have predicted, Nena and her husband fall deeply in love with Olivia (and vice versa), and the three of them enter into a polyamorous relationship that friends, family, and society as a whole is not ready for.
Rachel excels as the conflicted Nena, a previous content woman who is unable to make heads nor tails of her new status as one-third of a loving relationship, and who struggles to reconcile her feelings for Olivia with her love for her husband – and her jealousy of the relationship between the two of them. We cannot recommend this thought-provoking drama enough!
What’s next for Rachel Alig?
The sky’s the limit for this talented actor! With no less than 12 projects currently in pre-/post-production and no doubt many more on the horizon, be assured that you will be seeing much more of Rachel in the future near and far!
