Rachel Nichols Biography

Fast Facts

• Set the high-jump record at her high school
• Studied in France during high school, and spent her college years attending classes in New York and modeling in Europe
• Planned on working on Wall Street after graduating from Columbia University
• Landed her first television role in 2002, playing an orgy-loving waitress on Sex and the City
• Appeared in Maxim magazine's 2001 swimsuit issue and was ranked 28th in its 100 Sexiest Women issue in 2003
• Was in line to inherit the lead role on Alias had a pregnant Jennifer Garner left the show
• Garner did scale back her involvement, but the series ended with both Garner and Nichols in the 2006 finale
• Avoids using the P2 level of any parking garage after starring in the film P2 (2007), in which she played a woman being terrorized by a psycho in such a garage
• Enjoys windsurfing, sailing and watching boxing