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| Birth Name(s) : Rachel Lauren Stevens |
Date of Birth: April 9, 1978 |
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| Rachel was born 9 April 1978 in London. Rachel started drama school at the age of 5. At 15 she was picked from 5000 people to win a modelling competition organised by Just 17 magazine. She did some modelling work and she then went to the London School of Fashion to study the fashion business. She got a diploma and then moved into fashion PR. Then at age 21 she joined the pop group S Club 7. |
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Rachel Lauren Stevens (born April 9, 1978) is an English singer and actress and an occasional model who lives in Hampstead, London. Formerly with the successful pop group S Club (7), she launched a solo recording career and has released seven singles and two albums to date in the UK.
Stevens would then return to music in March 2005 with the single "Negotiate with Love", which appeared on her 2005 album "Come And Get It" Along with "Some Girls". The single "Negotiate With Love" became Stevens fourth Top Ten hit and was followed by "So Good", which reached number 10, and "I Said Never Again (But Here We Are)", which made number 12. "Come And Get It" failed to perform well in the charts, becoming a commercial failure even though it was praised by the pop music press and other outlets, such as The New York Times.
In Southgate, London, England, Rachel Lauren Stevens was born on April 9, 1978 of Jewish heritage, to parents Linda and Michael Stevens. She has two brothers, Jason and Lee Stevens. She attended Ashmole School in Southgate, London.
From a very early age, Stevens was drawn to entertaining people. By the time she was five, Stevens already began taking acting lessons at drama school near London.
At the age of fifteen she got her first big break when she beat out 5000 competitors in a modelling competition sponsored by Just 17 Magazine. Following her first modelling jobs and having left school, she studied at the London School of Fashion where she got a diploma in the Business of fashion - and went on to work in fashion PR, but began to lose interest and started to seek out a career in music and acting instead. In 1989, an 11-year-old Rachel took her first acting steps in a film called "Taking A Stand", after her mother began taking her to auditions.
Stevens and "S Club 7" quickly rose to fame, with their debut single "Bring It All Back" reaching number one on the UK Singles Chart in June 1999. The groups follow-up, "S Club Party" was also a hit, the groups self-titled debut album also sold well. The success of their debut album landed the S Club their own TV show, S Club 7 in Miami. Minor success in the United States followed. They won a Brit Award for Best British newcomer in 2000. Their song Don't Stop Movin' went to number one twice, won a Brit award and Record of the Year in 2001. Thanks to their music and their own television show, seen in 120 countries, they became one of the UK's biggest pop groups.
The group was able to release a successful film in 2003 called S Club Seeing Double but after a UK tour, the members of S Club commenced to break up.
Due to the success of "Some Girls", Funky Dory was re-released to include "Some Girls" and another new track, a cover of Andrea True Connection's "More More More". At this point, Rachel stepped up promotion, inadvertently earning herself a Guinness World Record for “Most Public Appearances by a Pop Star in 24 Hours in Different Cities” (Seven on September 8-September 9, 2004).
That November, Stevens was nominated for seven awards at the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party. She took home two awards, Most Fanciable Female and Best Dressed Star.
She sang on the Band Aid 20 single despite not being invited having turned up to the recording with Will Young who was.
Rachel also appeared in a movie entitled Suzie Gold and also appeared in Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo.
Stevens spent the first few months of 2006 in Los Angeles in preparation of launching an acting career, and has spent much of her time there ever since. According to Stevens, she is working with the William Morris Agency, one of the largest acting agencies in the world and she has been seen visiting the same acting class that Brad Pitt used to attend. Rumours suggest that Stevens was offered the role of a receptionist in the Steve Miner directed remake of George A. Romero's "Day of the Dead," which is to be released in September 2007 in the U.S; and the script for a role in a new American horror film directed by Alexandre Aja called "Devil's Road."
According to a British tabloid, on her return from Los Angeles to London in March 2007 on a Virgin Atlantic flight, Stevens was disappointed not to receive an upgrade to Upper Class (she was booked in Premium Economy), apparently uttering the immortal words, "Do you know who I am?". Rachel then returned to LA in May 2007 leaving many to speculate as to what is happening in her acting career. She was seen holding a script for an unknown movie in June 2007 just shortly before returning to London on 19 June 2007.
She is said to suffer from claustrophobia - the fear of confined spaces. "I have a problem with locking the door. I also can't go on the Eurostar or in lifts. I always have to take the stairs. But I feel I´m making progress and, hopefully, in the future I'll overcome it".
Since April she has been linked to British actor and former model Alex Leigh. They were spotted on several locations, including a north London café, as well as grocery shops in L.A.
In the fictional autobiography of the band Gorillaz, Rise of the Ogre, she's mentioned as dating animated band member 2D.
In S Club 7, Stevens fronted the World Wide Fund for Nature. On her episode of Go Wild, she was the spokesperson for the siberian tiger. More recently, she has been the front woman for Pretty Polly (2004), Sky Sports (2004), Marks & Spencer (2004), Focus Dailies (2007) amongst others. |
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