Rachel Zeskind
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Rachel Zeskind was born in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

, USA and now lives and works in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

 as an actress, writer, director and artist.

Biography

Rachel Zeskind first began acting in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

 where she did print work, commercials, and voice-over.
Her first television credit was a BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

 series called LA Pool Party in 2001 where she played a sexy comedic character America. For the role her hair was dyed blonde and she wore an American flag bikini in the pilot.

In the film 'A Day With The Urns', she wrote and performed the song "My First Not Cover Tune". The movie A Day With The Urns was accepted into the Emerging Filmmakers Short Film Festival 2007 where it received a warm response.

Other recent works by Rachel Zeskind include spearheading the efforts, Inner ViZion Productions is sponsoring 'A Night of Art for a Purpose' to raise money and awareness for LA Goal and Smile Train
The Smile Train
Smile Train is a not-for-profit, 501 organization based in New York City with the mission of providing free corrective surgery for children with cleft lip and palate in about 80 developing countries. Founded in 1999, Smile Train focuses on providing free cleft-related training for doctors and...

 - the red carpet event is slated for 2009. The film 'A Place For My Head' in which she co-starred was nominated for 'Best Film' at the ISFF (International Student Film Festival
International Student Film Festival
The International Student Film Festival is held once every two years in Tel-Aviv, in June.-History:The festival was founded in 1986 at the initiative of students of TAU Department of Film and Television, Tel-Aviv...

) in 2006.

She has written and is slated to act in and direct the controversial film dealing with eating disorders entitled 'Then & Now'. She is also directing the film as well as acting as the female love interest.

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