Rachel Miner

Rachel Miner (born July 29, 1980) is a Broadway, film, and television actress, born in New York City.

Personal life

A third generation Miner in show business, she is the daughter of director and teacher Peter Miner and the granddaughter of director/producer Worthington Miner and actress Frances Fuller. In 1998 she married Home Alone actor Macaulay Culkin. The marriage ended in divorce four years later.

Career

Television

Milner's television credits include Vickie in Shining Time Station: 'Tis a Gift (1990), Michelle Bauer on Guiding Light (1986–1992), a guest starring role as Laurel in a Sex and the City episode, "Twenty-something Girls vs. Thirty-something Women" (1999) and Astrid in NY-LON (2004).

She appears in the 2007 television series Californication, as Dani California, a reference to a character appearing in several songs by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

In 2008, she appeared in "The Sacrifice", an episode of Fear Itself.

In 2009, she appeared in "Sympathy for the Devil", the fifth season premiere of Supernatural, as Meg Masters demon and the same season's tenth episode, "Abandon All Hope". She reprised the role in season six's "Caged Heat", also the tenth episode of that season, and season seven's "The Born-Again Identity", with possible future appearances in the remaining episodes of the season.

Theater

Among her theater credits are Jennifer in Laura Cahill's Naked Faith: The Way at Naked Angels in New York (1994), Margo in The Diary of Anne Frank on Broadway (1997), Rivkele in Donald Margulies' adaptation of Sholem Asch's God of Vengeance at ACT Theatre in Seattle (2000), Sandy in Rebecca Gilman's Blue Surge at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago (2001) and at The Public Theater in New York (2002).

Film

Her film credits include young Alice in Woody Allen's Alice (1990), Patty in Frank Whaley's Joe the King (1999), Lisa Connelly in Larry Clark's Bully (2001), Jade in Guy in Row Five (2004), Eva in Frank E. Flowers' Haven (2004), and a role in Jefery Levy's Rabbi (2004). She also co-starred as Hilary Swank's sister in Brian De Palma's The Black Dahlia (2006). She has recently been cast in the 3rd installment of the Butterfly Effect series The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations.^[1] She also starred as Betty in the 2008 film Hide.

Filmography

• Alice (1990) as Alice at 12 yrs.
• Shining Time Station: 'Tis A Gift (1990) as Vickie
• The Guiding Light (1990–1995) as Michelle Bert Bauer
• Henry Fool (1997) as Girl in Library #3
• Joe the King (1999) as Patty
• Sex and the City: "Twenty-Something Girls vs. Thirty-Something Women" (1999) as Laurel
• Bully (2001) as Lisa Connelly
• Haven (2004) as Eva
• NY-LON (2004) as Astrid
• Guy in Row Five (2005) as Jade
• Man of God (2005) as Karen Cohen
• Little Athens (2005) as Allison
• Circadian Rhythm (2005) as Sarah
• Bones: "The Girl in the Fridge" (2005) as Mary Costello
• Medium (2005, 2006) as Leah / Emilia 'Lia' Purcell
• Fatwa (2006) as Cassie Davidson
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: "Rashomama" (2006) as Valerie Whitehall
• Thanks to Gravity (2006) as Sophia
• The Black Dahlia (2006) as Martha Linscott
• Onion Underwater (2006) as Tara
• Grasshopper (2006) as Terri
• Without a Trace: "The Damage Done" (2006) as Julia Martic
• Penny Dreadful (2006) as Penny Deerborn
• Cult (2007) as Mindy
• The Still Life (2007) as Robin
• The Blue Hour (2007) as Julie
• The Memory Thief (2007) as Mira
• Tooth & Nail (2007) as Neon
• Californication (2007—2008) as Dani
• Hide (2008) as Betty
• Fear Itself: "The Sacrifice" (2008) as Chelsea
• The Cleaner: "The Eleventh Hour" (2008) as Sarah Gibbons
• Life: "Canyon Flowers" (2008) as Squeaky Uhry
• The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations (2009) as Jenna Reid
• CSI: Miami: "Presumed Guilty" (2009) as Tammy Witten
• Supernatural: "Sympathy For The Devil" "Abandon All Hope" (2009) as Meg
• Life of Lemon (2009) as Esther
• Cold Case: "Two Weddings" (2010) as Anna Coulson
• Terriers: "Pilot" (2010) as Eleanor Gosney
• No Ordinary Family: "No Ordinary Quake" (2010) as Rebecca Jessup
• 51 (2011 Syfy film) as Sgt. Hannah
• Criminal Minds: "Today I Do" (2011) as Molly
• Sons of Anarchy: "With an X" (2011) as Dawn Trager
• Person of Interest: "Root Cause" (2012) as Root

She also appeared in the music video for "Only One" by Yellowcard.

References

External links

• Rachel Miner at the Internet Movie Database
• Rachel Miner at AllRovi
• CNN Interview
• A Quick Chat with Rachel Miner. Kamera.co.uk Interview