Rachel Sterling

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Date of Birth

11 November 1979, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA

Nickname

Rachie Rach

Height

5' 4" (1.63 m)

Mini Biography

Rachel Sterling can be seen on the big screen in the New Line Cinema's The Wedding Crasher's with Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, as well as Stacy on NBC's hit show Las Vegas and Summer on UPN's one on one. 2006 has already become a busy year for this versatile actress with several independent films already underway. Rachel will also be launching her own rock & roll cabaret act the " Sugar Blush Beauties" while participating in an untitled special project that is currently being developed.

Not long after coming to Hollywood as a swimsuit/lingerie model in 2000, Rachel started taking acting classes at the Piero Dusa Conservatory. Shortly thereafter, her acting career started to take off. On her first audition she landed to roll of Cherry in the film Tomcats. F. Gary Gray cast Rachel as Assia in the film A Man Apart with Vin Diesel. For her role, Rachel trained with choreographer Travis Pain and an Argentine tango instructor.

The MTV generation got hooked on Rachel in the Shaggy video "Hey, Sexy Lady." Highly acclaimed video director Dave Meyers went on to cast Rachel in several music videos including: Kid Rock's 'American Bad Ass," and "Feel Like Making Love," Ja Rule's "Between Me and You," Velvet Revolver's "Slither and Dirty Little Thing," and No Doubt's "Hey Baby." Dr. Dre took notice of Rachel's dance style when he asked her to choreograph a dance number for the Source Awards, based on her performance in his music video "The Next Episode." Rachel used her dancing skills again to choreograph a sexy cheer routine for the "Back in the Mud" video for Bubba Sparxxx. it was no surprise when "The Pussycat Dolls" featured Rachel on a seven month run as their burlesque starlet. Rachel and the Dolls performed several shows at the Viper Room (with Scarlet Johanson, Fergie and Carmen Electra), VH1's Diva Live, and MTV's Rock the Vote. Rachel also represented the Dolls as a celebrity model for the Rock & Republic runway show during fashion week in Los Angeles.

It was on the set of George Michael's music video "Freek" that Rachel found her way into print work again. There, Rachel caught the eye of famed photographer Ellen Von Unwerth, who was so taken with Rachel that she was inspired to shoot a lingerie book. Since then Rachel has again and again graced the pages of Maxim, Stuff, Italian Vogue, FHM and others in both the U.S. and overseas making her an international sensation.

Many fans remember Rachel from the Comedy Central series The Man Show with Jimmy Kimmel. She recently teamed up with Comedy Central again for a two season recurring role as Madam Carmel on Reno 911!

Although her family is deeply rooted in Texas, this exotic mix of Apache, Mexican and Korean calls Los Angeles her home. Rachel lives with her dog Zoe who has quite a modeling career of her own! Rachel and Zoe find time to give back to the community through charity work and fund raising.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Chris Kolaskos

Trivia

Is of Mexican, Korean and Apache descent.

In 2002 Hook-ups skateboards released The Rachel Sterling skateboard with her name and image to commemorate her role as nurse Betty in "Destroying America" with Tony Hawk.

Has one half sister and one half brother

Was a lingerie model for www.trashy.com