About Rachael Stirling
Rachael Atlanta Stirling is a British stage, film, and television actress. She played Nancy Astley in the BBC drama Tipping the Velvet, and Millie in the ITV series The Bletchley Circle. She has also guest-starred in Lewis and one episode of Doctor Who, co-starring with her mother, Diana Rigg. She has been nominated twice for the Laurence Olivier Award for her stage work. Stirling made her first major appearance on stage in 1997 as Desdemona in the National Youth Theatre revival of Othello at the Arts Theatre opposite Chiwetel Ejiofor in the title role. Stirling's first screen appearance was in the 1998 British comedy film Still Crazy. Stirling's first break in television was in the 2000 NBC miniseries In the Beginning, which was adapted from the Book of Genesis. The episode had been specially written for Stirling and her mother by Mark Gatiss (marking the very first appearance of the two actresses together professionally) and was aired on 4 May 2013 as part of Series 7.
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