Rachel Shelley

Acting

Rachel Shelley

Born

1969-08-25 (57)

Place of birth

Swindon, England

Known for

Acting

Credits

28 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Rachel Shelley (born on 25 August 1969) is an English actress and model. She was born in Swindon and graduated from Sheffield University with a B.A. Hons in English and Drama. She played Elizabeth Russell in the Indian Hindi film Lagaan and Helena Peabody on the television show The L Word. Shelley lives in Notting Hill, grew up in London and moved from Swindon at age one. She is married to Mathew Parkhill, and gave birth to a daughter on September 8, 2009. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rachel Shelley, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 10 titles

Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India poster
7.3

The year is 1893 and India is under British occupation. In a small village, the tyrannical Captain Russell has imposed an unprecedented land tax on its citizens. Outraged, Bhuvan, a rebellious farmer, rallies the villagers to publicly oppose the tax. Russell offers a novel way to settle the dispute: he challenges Bhuvan and his men to a game of cricket, a sport completely foreign to India. If Bhuvan and his men can defeat Russell's team, the tax will be repealed.

Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India

2001

Gray Matters poster
5.8

Sam and Gray are such a well-matched pair that it is difficult to believe they are brother and sister rather than husband and wife. They both share a love of 1940s movies and dancing, and when they meet Charlie, they have something else in common: They both fall in love with her. Sam must deal with unexpected feelings of jealousy, while Gray struggles to come to terms with her sexual orientation.

Gray Matters

2007

The Children poster
6.1

A relaxing Christmas vacation turns into a terrifying fight for survival as the children begin to turn on their parents.

The Children

2008

The Calling poster
4.9

On her wedding night, a young woman conceives a child during an hallucinatory encounter. Several years later, as her friends and family begin to behave strangely, she pieces together clues that lead to one conclusion...her son is the Antichrist

The Calling

2000

Seeing Other People poster
5.8

Ed and Alice are two months shy of getting married when she realizes that she wishes she'd had a more active love life while still single. Reluctantly, Ed agrees to have an open relationship in the months before their wedding, and initially this seems to improve their connection, particularly in the bedroom. However, as Ed and Alice get more involved in their own flings, the experiment goes awry.

Seeing Other People

2004

Cruise of the Gods poster
5.1

Andy Van Allen, former hero of the cult 80s futuristic TV show Children of Castor, is now working as a hotel porter. When Andy receives an unusual offer - the Children of Castor fan club-organised cruise around the Greek islands, with him as the principal celebrity - a combination of Andy's cynicism, his fans' adoration, a misguided sexual encounter and an unexpected reunion with his more famous co-star, Nick Lee, ensure the paradise cruise is far from plain sailing.

Cruise of the Gods

2002

Lighthouse poster
4.5

A prison ship on its way to a remote island prison runs aground on rocks and sinks. Mixed survivors of cons and prison guards struggle ashore, only to discover to their horror that another survivor got there first - the murderous & psychotic Leo Rook. Stranded, with no means of escape or call for help, the survivors must face a night of terror as they struggle to survive.

Lighthouse

2000

Making Love poster
6.8

Costanza is drinking a beer in a Prague pub, a summer night in 1968, while a violinist enters and starts playing a "canone inverso" for her. It is not a case, that music and that violin have a story behind that could concern her. It is the love story between Jeno Varga and the music, between Jeno and Sophie.

Making Love

2000

The Bone Snatcher poster
4.6

After miners disappear in the Namib Desert, some scientists find their remains and the demonic creature that killed them.

The Bone Snatcher

2003

The Dinosaur Hunters poster
6.5

One man who kept asking questions was Gideon Mantell, the amateur paleontologist who, in the early 19th century, fought to get the British scientific establishment to accept Britain had been inhabited by dinosaurs. As this dramatised documentary shows, Mantell had an uphill battle in a time when the biblical account of creation was considered literal truth and authorities such as the Reverend William Buckland were determined that science remain "the handmaid of religion".

The Dinosaur Hunters

2002

1990s · 3 titles

Series credits

Once Upon a Time poster
7.4

There is a town in Maine where every story book character you've ever known is trapped between two worlds, victims of a powerful curse. Only one knows the truth and only one can break the spell.

Once Upon a Time

2011

Ghost Whisperer poster
8.1

Newlywed Melinda Gordon tries to help the dead communicate with loved ones, but sometimes the messages she receives are intense and confusing. Most of Melinda's efforts involve resolving conflicts that are preventing the spirits from passing over.

Ghost Whisperer

2005

Heartbeat poster
7.1

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.

Heartbeat

1992

Highlander: The Series poster
7.4

Duncan MacLeod cannot die -- he is a 400-year-old immortal, who has seen his share of humanity's history. Still, he risks his life in battle against other immortals and tries to save people from harm.

Highlander: The Series

1992

The L Word poster
7.7

A group of lesbian friends struggle with romance and careers in Los Angeles.

The L Word

2004

Grantchester poster
7.3

In 1953 at the hamlet of Grantchester, Sidney Chambers—a charismatic, charming clergyman—turns investigative vicar when one of his parishioners dies in suspicious circumstances.

Grantchester

2014

Episodes poster
7.2

A British husband-and-wife comedy writing team travel to Hollywood to remake their successful British TV series, with disastrous results.

Episodes

2011

Young Sherlock poster
7.8

Sherlock Holmes is a disgraced young man, raw and unfiltered, when he finds himself wrapped up in a murder case that threatens his liberty. His first ever case unravels a globe-trotting conspiracy that changes his life forever.

Young Sherlock

2026

Miss Match poster
6.6

Kate Fox, a divorce lawyer who dabbles at matchmaking on the side, finds herself thrust into the spotlight and dismaying her boss/father when a socialite bride credits Kate to the press as being the secret to her romantic success.

Miss Match

2003

Bugs poster
6.9

Bugs was a British television drama series which ran for four series from April 1995 to August 1999. The programme, a mixture of action/adventure and science-fiction, involved a team of specialist independent crime-fighting technology experts, who faced a variety of threats based around computers and other modern technology. It was originally broadcast on Saturday evenings on BBC One, and was produced for the BBC by the independent production company Carnival Films.

Bugs

1995

Coupling poster
7.9

Six friends in their thirties navigate dating, sexual adventures, and mishaps on their quest to find love.

Coupling

2000

Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story poster
6.8

Wealthy developer Jack Robinson is stunned when a gigantic human skeleton is discovered on his building site. According to a mysterious woman, it is part of a curse that has dogged his family for years. To lift the jinx placed upon him, Jack will need to visit the land in the sky - by climbing up a very tall beanstalk.

Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story

2001

Kohrra poster
6.9

When an NRI bridegroom is found dead days before his wedding in the countryside of Punjab, two cops must unravel the troubling case as turbulence unfolds in their own lives.

Kohrra

2023

Baddiel's Syndrome poster
5.5

The trials and tribulations of David, a world-weary thirty-something trying to make sense of his complicated life. David shares his flat with his lodger, Ethan, an American personal trainer. His friend and neighbour Lord Peter Harrington is an aristocrat who's upset about losing his seat in the House of Lords. His son, who David thinks might be gay, lives with his ex-wife Sian. David now fancies his Slovenian cleaning lady, Eva, who wants to marry him so that she can stay in Britain.

Baddiel's Syndrome

2001