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Rachel Miner
Born	July 29, 1980 (1980-07-29) (age 29) New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1990–present
Spouse(s)	Macaulay Culkin (1998–2000) (divorced)

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

Contents 1 Biography 2 Career 2.1 Television 2.2 Theater 2.3 Film 3 Private life 4 Filmography 5 References 6 External links

Biography

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. She briefly came under the media spotlight for her two-year (1998–2000) marriage to actor Macaulay Culkin. The marriage was noted for the extremely young age at which the two were wed.

As of 2003, she was active in Scientology, contributing to and dedicating a new Dianetics and Scientology Center in Los Angeles.¹

Career

Television

Miner's television credits include Vickie in Shining Time Station: 'Tis a Gift (1990), Michelle Bauer on Guiding Light (1990–1995), 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.

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 DePalma's The Black Dahlia (2006). She has recently been cast in the 3rd installment of the Butterfly Effect series The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations.² She also stared as Betty in the 2008 film Hide.

Private life

In 1998, at the age of seventeen, she married actor Macaulay Culkin, whom she divorced after two years in 2000.

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" (2009) as Meg
• Life of Lemon (2009) as Esther

References

1. ^ "Dianetics and Scientology Center Opens on Melrose in Los Angeles". Scientology.org. August 30, 2003. http://www.scientology.org/news-media/briefing/openings/melrose/. 
2. ^ "Butterfly Effect: Revelation". Bloody-disgusting.com. http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/film/2248/headlines. 

External links

• Rachel Miner: Major Talent College Crier Interview by T. Virgil Parker
• Rachel Miner at the Internet Movie Database
• CNN Interview
• A Quick Chat with Rachel Miner. Kamera.co.uk Interview