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Rachel Grant | |
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| Born | 25 September 1977 [1] |
| Nationality | English |
| Years active | 1998–present |
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73m) |
| Spouse | Stephen Hersh (m. 2019) |
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| Family | Rebecca Grant (sister) |
Rachel Louise Grant de Longueuil (born 25 September 1977) is an English actress and TV presenter. [3]
Grant was born on the island of Luzon in the Philippines to Michael Grant, 12th Baron de Longueuil, and Isabel Padua; her family moved to the United Kingdom when she was a baby, and she was raised in Nottingham, England. She is of Scottish, French-Canadian and Filipino descent. She is related to the British royal family through her grandfather, the 11th Baron de Longueuil, who is second cousin to Queen Elizabeth II through the Bowes-Lyon family. [4]
Grant played Peaceful Fountains of Desire in the 2002 James Bond film Die Another Day . [5] One of her first TV roles was on SyFy as Nina, the hostess of horror show Sci-fright . She was Professor Myang-Li in the Sky One series Brainiac: Science Abuse from 2003-2007. She has starred in theatre and in TV shows including Emmerdale , Murder in Suburbia , Blue Murder and Casualty . She also appeared in the films Until Death , The Purifiers and more recently, in the sci-fi-fi comedy Snatchers .
On January 15, 2018, Grant publicly made a sexual assault allegation against actor/producer Steven Seagal, stating an incident took place in 2002, during pre-production on his direct-to-video film Out for a Kill (2003), and that she lost her job on the film after the incident. [3] [6] Seagal, who had been accused by other actresses of sexual assault and rape in the past, denied these allegations. [3] [7]
In November 2019, Grant married Biaggi Luggage CEO Stephen Hersh in Israel. [8]
Steven Frederic Seagal is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, martial artist, and musician. A 7th-dan black belt in aikido, he began his adult life as a martial arts instructor in Japan where he became the first American to teach in an aikido dojo. He later moved to Los Angeles where he continued teaching aikido. In 1988, Seagal made his acting debut in Above the Law, which is regarded as the first American film to feature aikido in fight sequences.
Hard to Kill is a 1990 American vigilante action-thriller film directed by Bruce Malmuth, starring Steven Seagal, Kelly LeBrock, William Sadler and Frederick Coffin. Seagal's second film after Above the Law, he portrays Mason Storm, a detective who falls into a coma after being shot during a home invasion that killed his wife. Reawakening seven years later, Storm embarks on a journey to avenge the death of his wife, and expose the corruption of Senator Vernon Trent, the man who ordered the murder of his family. The film was released on February 9, 1990, and grossed $75 million worldwide.
Out for Justice is a 1991 American neo-noir action thriller film directed by John Flynn and co-produced by and starring Steven Seagal as Gino Felino, a veteran police detective who sets out to avenge his partner Bobby's murder by killing Richie, the trigger-happy, drug-addicted mafioso culprit. The film was released theatrically on April 12, 1991.
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