Rachel Emily Nichols
Rachel Emily Nichols was born on January 8, 1980 in Augusta, Maine, U.S. Her mother has English, German, Scotch-Irish, Italian and Scottish descent. She attended Cony High School. She graduated in 1998 and enrolled at Columbia University in New York City. One day during lunch, an agent invited her to work in Paris. She worked in advertising campaigns for Abercrombie & Fitch, Guess and L'Oreal. She also hosted several MTV specials. She had performed in commercials and a bit part as a model in the romantic drama film Autumn in New York. Her modeling agent helped her to get a one-episode role in the fourth season of Sex and the City in 2002. After that in 2003, she was cast in her first major film as Jessica, a dogged student newspaper reporter in Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd. In 2004, she played a member of a high school debate team in the independent film Debating Robert Lee and a two-episode role in the crime drama television series Line of Fire. Thereafter she was cast in supporting roles in the horror films "The Amityville Horror" and "The Woods". She played a small role in the 2005 romantic drama Shopgirl. She was nominated for the Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Scream Scene and the MTV Movie Award for Best Frightened Performance. Her film The Woodswas was released directly to video in October, 2006. She played small part in the drama film Resurrecting the Champ and in the fact-based political drama Charlie Wilson's War in 2007. Sher performed her first starring role in the 2007 horror–thriller film "P2". She played a supporting role in "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2" in 2008. She was cast in Star Trek in November 2007, but due to the project's secrecy, she was unknown about her character in the film. In 2007, she was cast as Shana "Scarlett" O'Hara in the live-action film adaptation of the G.I. Joe franchise G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. She put on approximately 15 pounds of muscle for the role and trained in mixed martial arts with co-star Sienna Miller for some of the film's action sequences. After G.I. Joe, her next film was the horror film "For Sale by Owner" in which she performed as Anna Farrier. She appeared as Leslie Spencer in the independent crime drama film Meskada in the 2010. In the same year she was cast in the 3-D sword and sorcery film Conan the Barbarian. The film was a box office bomb. She appeared in the action film Alex Cross, which gained negative reviews.On December 30, 2013, she confirmed her engagement to Michael Kershaw, a real estate developer. They got married in September 2014.