Rachel Melvin

Birth Name:

Rachel Melvin

Birth Place:

Elmhurst, Illinois, United States

Profession

Actress

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

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