Rachel Melvin Biography

Fast Facts

• Has been active with the American Diabetes Association and Samantha's Friends charities
• Though she considered studying interior design and won a full ride scholarship to Arizona State University, she decided to move to Los Angeles directly after graduating high school to pursue an acting career
• After leaving the soap opera scene to pursue other opportunities, she starred in the Lifetime miniseries "Seven Deadly Sins" and made appearances on such primetime shows as "Heroes․"
• Best known for playing Chelsea Brady on "Days of Our Lives," though she originally played a French girl named Georgia LaMarque on five episodes of the program
• Dances and sings in her free time and knows how to play the violin
• Looks up to actors Meryl Streep, Mary-Louise Parker, Anne Hathaway, Cynthia Nixon and Toni Colette
• Got the role of Penny in "Dumb and Dumber To" after auditioning for a Dodge commercial
• On the night before the legal gambling age changed from 18 to 21 in Phoenix, Ariz․, she won six hundred dollars playing bingo at a casino