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- ↑ David Germain, "'Simone' Gets A Life of Her Own; Rachel Roberts Emerges as the Real Woman Behind Unbilled Role of a Digital Actress", The Washington Post , August 24, 2002, via HighBeam Research.
- ↑ Alison Jones, "Culture: Rachel Is an Image of Pixel Perfection; Computers Cannot Replace Real Actors, as Alison Jones Finds out from Rachel Roberts" [ dead link ] Birmingham Post , October 30, 2002.
- ↑ "Rachel Roberts and Andrew Niccol welcome daughter" Archived January 16, 2014, at the Wayback Machine , People , March 3, 2008.
