Real Name : Rachael Atalanta Stirling
Birth : 30 May 1977, London, England, UK
Height : 5' 9"
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- Another Life (2001) [Avis Graydon] <5>
- Bait (2002) (TV) [Stephanie Raeburn] <3>
- Beyond (2006) (TV) [Guilean Hade]
- Centurion (2010) [Drusilla]
- Complicity (2000) [Claire] <15>
- Dangerous Parking (2007) [Kirstin] <4>
- Freeze Frame (2004) [Katie Carter] <5>
- In the Beginning (2000) (TV) [Young Rebeccah] <12>
- Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage (2004) (TV) [Griselda Clement] <16>
- Maybe Baby (2000) [Joanna] <7>
- Othello (2001) (TV) [Lulu] <19>
- Redemption Road (2001) [Becky]
- Riot at the Rite (2005) (TV) [Marie Rambert] <4>
- Still Crazy (1998) [Clare Knowles] <10>
- The Final Quest (2004) (TV) [Young Annabelle] <7>
- The Haunted Airman (2006) (TV) [Julia Jugg] <2>
- The Making of 'Dangerous Parking' (2008) (V)
- The Triumph of Love (2001) [Corine] <2>
- The Truth (2006) [Martha]
- The Young Victoria (2009) [Duchess of Sutherland] <15>
- Tipping the Velvet (2002) (TV) [Nan Astley] <1>
- "Agatha Christie: Poirot" (1989) {Five Little Pigs (#9.1)} [Caroline Crale] <2>
- "Boy Meets Girl" (2009) {(#1.1)} [Veronica Burton] <2>
- "Boy Meets Girl" (2009) {(#1.2)} [Veronica Burton] <5>
- "Boy Meets Girl" (2009) {(#1.3)} [Veronica Burton] <1>
- "Boy Meets Girl" (2009) {(#1.4)} [Veronica Burton] <2>
- "Breakfast" (2000) {(2009-05-01)} [Herself]
- "Hotel Babylon" (2006) {(#1.1)} [Nina Bailey] <8>
- "Lewis" (2007) {Life Born of Fire (#2.3)} [Zoë Kenneth] <4>
- "Minder" (2009) {Thank Your Lucky Stars (#1.5)} [Eve Cornell] <9>
- "RI:SE" (2002) {(#1.122)} [Herself]
- "The Frank Skinner Show" (1995) {(#6.7)} [Herself]
- "This Morning" (1988) {(2009-04-30)} [Herself]
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- "The Independent Newspaper" (UK), 29 September 2006, Iss. 6226, pg. 26, by: Elisa Bray, "The 5-Minute Interview: 'I was offered 20 chickens for my hand in marriage'"
- "The Independent Review" (UK), 11 December 2003, pg. 4-5, by: Brian Viner, "Mother's pride"
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- "Celebrity Sleuth" (USA), April 2004, Iss. 31, pg. 20-23, by: staff, "TV Or Not TV: Tipping The Velvet"
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- (May 2005) Played Miranda Lionheart in a stage adaptation of _Theater of Blood (1973)_ (qv) - National Theatre, London
- (2000) Played Frankie in "Helpless", a new play by 'Dusty Hughes' (qv) - Donmar Warehouse, London
- (2003) Played Hester in "A Woman of No Importance" by 'Oscar Wilde' (qv) - Theatre Royal Haymarket, London
- (2004) Played Conchita in "Anna in the Tropics" - Hampstead Theatre, London
- (2005) Played Zenocrate in "Tambulaine" - Bristol Old Vic Theatre/ Barbican Theatre
- (2006) Played Helena in "Look Back In Anger" by 'John Osborne (II)' (qv) - Theatre Royal, Bath
- (2007) Her credits at London's Wilton's Music Hall include: Kate in Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" and Yelena in Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard"
- (2003) She acted in Oscar Wilde's play, "A Woman of No Importance," at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London, England with Rupert Graves, Samantha Bond, Prunella Scales, Joanne Pearce, Caroline Blakiston, Peter Cellier, John Normington, Ralph Nossek, and Elizabeth Garvie in the cast. Adrian Noble was director.
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- (November 2004) Beginning her run as Conchita in Nilo Cruz's award-winning play 'Anna in the Tropics' at Hampstead Theatre, London.
- (May 2005) Appearing in the theatre version of "Theatre of Blood" at the National Theatre, London, playing the role that her mother, Diana Rigg, played in the film.
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- Deep, throaty, husky voice
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- "I keep thinking, 'when will it all blow up? When will the luck or whatever it is run out?' Then there is the fear that there is someone behind me asking, 'Who does she think she is?' So I'm waiting you might say. Waiting for the jinx and trying not to feel too lucky."
- "I am a clever girl, so if there was something else I could do, I would."
- "It was horrendous after I appeared in Tipping The Velvet - I didn't work for eight months because I kept being sent scripts, the details of which I'll spare you."
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- Daughter of 'Diana Rigg' (qv)
- She can speak Russian and is highly skilled at horse-riding and jumping.
- Has a degree in History of Art from Edinburgh University.
- Formerly lived with her DJ boyfriend in north London.
- 1999: Named as one of European films 'Shooting Stars' by European Film Promotion.
- Is a former member of the UK's National Youth Theatre, for whom she played Desdemona opposite 'Chiwetel Ejiofor' (qv)'s Othello.
- She attended Wycombe Abbey in Buckinghamshire, where she spent most of her time at the theatre.
- Five people she would love to have to dinner are 'Bette Davis' (qv), 'Tallulah Bankhead' (qv), 'Mae West' (qv), Sarah Siddons and 'Joan Crawford (I)' (qv).
- Her favourite song is 'Bob Dylan' (qv)'s 'Lay Lady Lay' because it reminds her of times with her mother.
- Her father's first marriage to Charmian Scott produced two sons, William (Willy) a writer and Ludovic (Ludo) a designer, her half-brothers with whom she is very close.
- May 2005: in a stage production of Theatre Of Blood at the Lyttleton Theatre, London, she played the role of 'Miranda Lionheart'. This character (originally named Edwina) was played in the film by her mother, 'Diana Rigg' (qv).
- Of the Baronets Stirling-Maxwell, her father is Laird of the Keir Estate in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, by whom she descends from Charles II Stuart, King of England and Scotland, and also from a first cousin of his, the grandmother of George I, King of Great-Britain. She is also a distant relative of Sir 'Winston Churchill (I)' (qv) and 'Rupert Everett' (qv).
- Her father, Archibald Stirling is the nephew of Colonel Sir David Stirling, founder of the Special Air Service (SAS).
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