Rachael Leigh Cook is one of many multi-talented Hollywood stars. The actress who is best known for her role as Laney Boggs in the 1999 teen romantic comedy She’s All That and as Josie McCoy (lead vocalist, lead songwriter and guitarist for Pussycats) in the Canadian musical comedy film -American from 2001 Josie and the Pussycats, is also a producer, voice artist and model.
Cook voiced several characters on the comedy series Robot Chicken and was the voice of Tifa Lockhart in the Final Fantasy series. Here’s everything you need to know about this stylish woman, including her biography, personal life, and celebrity facts.
Rachael Leigh Cook – Biography
Cook was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on October 4, 1979, to Jo Ann and her husband Thomas H. Cook, a cooking instructor and weaver, social worker, and former stand-up comedian. She attended Clara Barton Open School, Laurel Springs School, and then Minneapolis South High School.
Career
Rachael Leigh started appearing on the big screens quite early. At the age of seven, she was featured in a public service announcement regarding foster care. at the age of ten, she began working as a children’s print model, appearing in advertisements for Target and boxes of Milk-Bone dog biscuits. At the age of fourteen, she began auditioning for acting roles. At the age of sixteen, Cook landed her first role as Mary Anne Spier in the 1995 comedy-drama The Baby-Sitters Club
In 1996, with the help of her modeling agency, she starred in 26 Summer Street – a short film directed by Steve Larson. The following year, she starred as a fifteen-year-old rape victim who is pregnant by her rapist in the crime drama fiction film Country Justice. In 1999, Rachael Leigh Cook had a major career breakthrough after playing Laney Boggs in the teen romantic comedy. She is all of that. The hit film “Sleeper” has so far remained Leigh’s most financially successful film in her career.
In 2000, she starred alongside Elijah Wood in the film adaptation of Robert Cormier’s novel The Bumblebee Still Flies. The following year she was in Josie and the Pussycats as Josie McCoy; later that year, she appeared on the cover of the US (March/April) issue of men’s lifestyle magazine FHM. She also starred in the music video for New Found Glory’s Dressed to Kill and on I Love You Lately by Daniel Powter.
In 2002, she was featured in Stuff magazine’s list of “102 Sexiest Women Alive” at number twenty-six. The following year, she was on 11:14 playing Cheri. She was also the main cast member in the 2005 television miniseries Westward . Rachael Leigh Cook has starred in several other movies and TV series such as Tom and Huck, The House of Yes, Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, Matters of Life and Death, Blonde Ambition, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, True Woman, Ghost Whisperer, Autumn in the Vineyard, Frozen Love, etc.
Cook is also a voice artist and has voiced several characters on the comedy series Robot Chicken; she was the voice of Tifa Lockhart in the Final Fantasy series and the Chelsea Cunningham in WB animated series Batman Beyond as well as in Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker. She was also the voice of Jaesa Willsaam in the MMO game Star Wars: The Old Republic. Her last role was that of Reina in the video game Yakuza.
Net value
His net worth is currently estimated at $5 million. Her income comes from her career as an actress, producer, singer and model. Cook owns his own production company, Ben’s Sister Productions; she named the company after her younger brother Ben Cook, who is an up-and-coming filmmaker.
Her husband and children
The beautiful actress is married to actor Daniel Gillies. The couple have been married since 2004; they tied the knot in August of that year, after three years. Together they have two adorable children – Charlotte Easton Gillies (daughter) born in September 2013 and Theodore Vigo Gillies (son) born in April 2015.
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Celebrity Facts
The Italian-born actress came to national attention in 1997 after appearing in PSA TV’s advertisement – This is your brain on drugs. In the ad, Cook destroyed a kitchen with a frying pan while mentioning the most important things in life that the heroine destroys.
She was selected by the Obama administration in 2011 as a champion of change for arts education, she began awarding a small scholarship to students aged 14 to 19 to help fund their mentorship programs, tuition guidance and other tuition fees.