Interesting facts
Rachel Sarah Bilson born on August 25, 1981 grew up in a California show business family, and made her television debut in 2003. Subsequently becoming well known for playing Summer Roberts on the prime-time drama series The O.C. Bilson made her film debut in the 2006 film The Last Kiss and starred in the 2008 action/science fiction film Jumper. She is currently starring as Dr. Zoe Hart on The CW's Hart of Dixie.
Bilson was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of Janice, a sex therapist, and Danny Bilson, a writer, director, and producer. Her father is Jewish, and her mother, a native of Philadelphia, is Italian American. Bilson's father comes from a show business family; her great-grandfather was George Bilson, was the head of the trailer department at RKO Pictures
Bilson had what has been described as a "self-destructive, rebellious period" during her teen years. When she was 16, she along with a girlfriend and a group of her brother's friends were involved in a car accident, a head-on collision with a truck. As a result, Bilson was in a coma for a few days, has a scar above her right eye, and sometimes suffers from migraines and memory loss.
She has stated that the experience "changed" her, encouraging her to "stop... getting into trouble" and stopping her from "going down that road" and because of this experience she learned to play the piano. Bilson graduated from Walter Reed Middle School in 1995 and from Notre Dame High School in 1999