Rachael Leigh Cook
Biography
Rachael Leigh Cook is an American actress and model who started out as a child print model in Minneapolis, Minnesota, then made her screen debut in The Baby-Sitters Club (1995). She appeared in Tom and Huck that same year and broke through in 1999 with the romantic comedy She's All That, the biggest commercial success of her career. She took the lead in Josie and the Pussycats (2001), which flopped in theaters but later became a cult classic, and she went on to roles in 11:14 (2003) and the big screen version of Nancy Drew (2007). On television she appeared in the miniseries Into the West and the crime drama Perception, and she has done extensive voice work, from Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker to Tifa Lockhart in the Final Fantasy series and Robot Chicken. Her later television work has been largely Hallmark Channel movies, and she produced and starred in Love, Guaranteed (2020).
47years old
Turns 48 on October 4in 357 days
- Born Minneapolis
- Star sign: LibraThe sign runs September 23 to October 22
- Also credited as Rachel Leigh Cook
Movie Career
- Films
- 43
- Career span
- 28 years1995 to 2023
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A first
Cook first drew national attention in 1997, when she appeared in a new This Is Your Brain on Drugs public service announcement on television and destroyed a kitchen with a frying pan.
Beyond film
Cook provided the voice of Tifa Lockhart in the English version of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children and in several Final Fantasy video games.
Big break
In 1999, Cook took on her breakout part in the romantic comedy She's All That, which turned out to be the movie that earned the most money in her career.
Behind the camera
Cook developed, starred in and executive produced the Hallmark Channel film Frozen in Love, broadcast in January 2018 for the channel's Winterfest programming.
Rachael Leigh Cook movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Mark Waters directed two of these films, Scott Smith two. Six actors appear in three of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Seth Green's page
Breckin Meyer's page
Marcus Rosner's page
Donald Faison's page
Laura Soltis's page
Brendan Penny's page
All films by Mark Waters
Scott SmithDirector, 2 films, 2016 to 2018
All films by Scott Smith
Box office
What Rachael Leigh Cook's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$213 million
12 of the 43 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 43 films: 12 worldwide figure; 5 us gross only; 17 never in cinemas; 9 figure not found.
- 12Worldwide figure
- 5US gross only
- 17Never in cinemas
- 9Figure not found
Top grosser
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 99% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$103M48.4% of the total
- 2$31M14.4% of the total
- 3$24M11.2% of the total
- 4$19M9.1% of the total
- 5$18M8.5% of the total
- 6$15M7.0% of the total
- 7$914K0.4% of the total
- 8$764K0.4% of the total
$1.4 millionfrom the other 4 films with a worldwide figure, 1% of the total