Lives London.
Who is she? Still best known for her lesbian scenes in the BBC drama Tipping the Velvet, Rachael has been steadily adding credits to her name. This year she won rave reviews for her performance in Theatre of Blood (reprising the role her mother, Diana Rigg, played in the film 32 years ago), and is currently in Tamburlaine, the Christopher Marlowe play. When not working, she loves to have friends round "to play backgammon", but is at her happiest in the countryside around Stirling, where her father lives.
Pluses She scorns celebrity life and drives an H-reg Golf — her first and only car.
Minuses She says she has a tendency to spend too much time on her own.
Best date "In Florence, looking out over the river in the evening sunshine with some bread, cheese and a bottle of wine."
Favourite book Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals.
Nothing is sexier than… "Gael Garcia Bernal, the lead actor in The Motorcycle Diaries."
Where will you be in ten years? "Still acting, or in Jenni Murray's job, presenting Woman's Hour. I'm hot for Jenni's seat."
