Rachel Brosnahan is an American actress and producer best known for her role as aspiring stand-up comedian Miriam “Midge” Maisel in the critically acclaimed Prime Video comedy series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017).
Wiki/Biography
Rachel Elizabeth Brosnahan was born on Thursday, July 12, 1990 (age 30 in 2020) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. Her zodiac sign is Cancer.
Rachel Brosnahan (Rachel Brosnahan) with her father as a child
At the age of four, her family moved to Highland Park, Illinois, where she grew up. She attended Wayne Thomas Elementary School, Northwood Junior High School, and Highland Park High School. During her junior and senior high school years, she performed in musicals. At Highland Park High School, she was on the wrestling team for two years and served as a ski coach at the school. At the age of sixteen, she trained under Carol Dibaugh, director of the Wilmette Actor Training Center; Dibaugh is now her agent. In 2012, Brosnahan graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a major in theater and a minor in psychology.
appearance
Height: 5′ 3½”
Eye Color: Blue
Hair color: Blonde (dyed brown)
Family and Race
She is of British-Irish descent. She is not religious. While she is not Jewish, she was happily immersed in Jewish culture growing up thanks to the Jewish community in Highland Park and attended many Passover seders, bar mitzvahs, and Hanukkahs on Chicago’s North Shore. She holds dual American and British citizenship.
Parents and siblings
Her parents are Carol and Earl Brosnahan, who work in children’s publishing. She has a younger brother and a younger sister named Lydia.
Rachel Brosnahan and her family
Relationship with husband
In 2018, it was reported that she had been secretly married to her longtime boyfriend, actor, since the beginning of the year. In January 2019, she revealed that she had been married to Jason for many years before their relationship became public.
Rachel Brosnahan and her husband
other relatives
Brosnahan is the niece of the late American fashion designer Kate Spade (née Brosnahan) and her father’s sister.
Rachel Brosnahan and her aunt
Profession
Film and Drama
In 2009, she made her screen debut as “Lisa” in the American horror/thriller film “The Unborn”; at the time, she was still in high school.
Rachel Brosnahan, Unborn (2009)
That same year, she made her stage debut at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Deerfield, playing the role of Maria in Up. In 2011, she played Alice in Coming Up Roses, and has since appeared in the films Nor’easter (2012), Heartbeat of New York (2013), James White (2015), The Best of Times (2016), and I’m Your Woman (2020).
In 2013, she made her Broadway debut as “Dixie Evans” in The Broadsword at Roundabout Theatre Company in Manhattan. In 2016, she starred as “Desdemona” in Othello at the New York Theatre Workshop. She has appeared in short films: Adrift (2012), Care (2013), Munchausen (2013), Basically (2014), The Obscene Locker (2014), and Fifteen Years Later (2018). In 2015, she made her film debut as “Irene” in the Norwegian film Louder Than Bombs (2015).
Rachel Brosnahan in Louder Than a Bomb (2015)
Television and Production
In 2010, she made her television screen debut in the American television series Mercy, playing the role of “Samantha”.
Rachel Brosnahan in Just Mercy (2010)
She then appeared in the television series Gossip Girl (2010), Ask Yourself (2010), CSI: Miami (2011), Grey’s Anatomy (2013) and Orange Is the New Black (2013), before landing recurring roles in the television series House of Cards (2013–15), The Blacklist (2014) and Black Box (2014). She played the lead role “Abby Isaacs” in the television series Manhattan (2014–15).
She has played memorable roles in the TV series The Dove Keeper (2015), Crisis in Six Scenes (2016), The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017) and Fifty States of Fear (2020). Rachel made her producer debut with the short film Femme (2018).
She also produced the feature film I’m Your Woman (2020) and the television special Every Year Goes By (2020).
Awards and Achievements
- The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel won the 2018 and 2019 Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Rachel Brosnahan holds the Golden Globe
- 2018 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Rachel Brosnahan holding an Emmy Award
- 2018 Gold Derby Award – Best Comedy Actress (Television) for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
- 2018 The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel won the Television Critics Association Award for Individual Achievement in a Comedy Series
- The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel wins 2018 Online Film and Television Association Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series
- 2018 and 2019 Critics’ Choice Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Rachel Brosnahan wins Critics’ Choice Award
- IMDb STARmeter Awards – 2020 Fan Favorite
- 2019 and 2020 Screen Actors Guild Awards – Outstanding Ensemble Performance by a Comedy Series: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Rachel Brosnahan and her co-stars attend the Screen Actors Guild Awards
- 2020 The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel won the Best Actress in a Comedy Series Award at the Women’s Image Network Awards
sign
Rachel Brosnahan’s signature
Favorite Things
- Food: French fries, Cheetos, salmon, chicken, bone broth
- TV series: Survivor (2000), Home Alone (2015), The Great British Bake Off (2010), Black Mirror (2011)
- Travel destination: New Mexico
- Movies: “Chicago” (1927), “Real Brothers” (2004)
- Film producer: Steven Spielberg
- Skin care brands: Cetaphil, COOLA
salary
She was paid about $300,000 per episode in the third season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
Facts/Trivia
- She enjoyed singing, playing Cribbage and board games with her friends.
- She was born into a sports-loving family, which influenced her early life. Before becoming an actress, she played basketball, skiing, wrestling, and lacrosse.
Rachel Brosnahan skiing with friends
- Growing up, she watched documentaries about medical mysteries and considered becoming a surgeon.
- Brosnahan has twice completed the Living Below Poverty Challenge, an anti-poverty campaign that requires participants to feed themselves at the extreme poverty level for five days in order to gain insight into some of the difficulties faced by people living in extreme poverty.
- In June 2018, she lost two loved ones within 15 days; her aunt Kate Spade died on June 5, and her grandfather Earl Francis Brosnahan died on June 20 at the age of 89.
- She is an animal lover and often posts pictures of her with animals on her social media accounts. As a child, she had a male rabbit, which they named “Lacey,” but later changed its name to “Larry David” when they found out it was male. She has two dogs: a bulldog named Nikki and a Shiba Inu named Winston.
Rachel Brosnahan talks about her pets in an Instagram post
- According to her, she wishes she could paint or sing.
- According to Rachel, she has a key-shaped scar on her left middle finger, which she got when she was four years old due to curiosity, wondering if the stove would stay hot after it was turned off.
- Rachel said that whenever she needs inspiration, she watches a YouTube video of all the Elphabas sisters singing “Defying Gravity” from Wicked.
- She serves on the board of directors of Covenant House International, a large privately funded organization that provides shelter, food, emergency crisis care and a range of other services to homeless and runaway youth. She is also involved in Covenant House International’s Sleep Out program.
Rachel Brosnahan and her husband attend an event to support Covenant House’s open-air sleeping program
- She is known for her role as Miriam “Midge” Maisel in the TV series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017). Speaking about her role in the show in an interview, she said,
I spent a lot of time trying to get my inner metronome up to the speed of Mickey’s and trying to channel her confidence, which remains one of the most challenging things about playing this character.”
- In 2019, she was named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list in Hollywood and entertainment.
- In the 2020 US presidential election, she supported Kamala Harris and the Black Lives Matter movement, appearing as a left-wing figure.
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