Rachael Stirling

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Stirling as the vicar's wife in the 2004 TV adaptation of Agatha Christie's The Murder at the Vicarage

Rachael Atalanta Stirling (born May 30, 1977 in London) is an English actress best known for her performance as Nancy Astley in the BBC drama Tipping the Velvet and also for being the daughter of Dame Diana Rigg.

Rachael made her first appearance on the stage starring in Othello at the National Youth Theatre in 1997. Her first screen appearance was a year later in the British comedy film Still Crazy. Her co-stars included such greats as Stephen Rea, Billy Connolly, Timothy Spall and Jimmy Nail. Other film projects have included Maybe Baby, Complicity (with her Tipping the Velvet co-star Keeley Hawes), Another Life with Vanity Fair's Natasha Little, The Triumph of Love starring Mira Sorvino, and Redemption Road. She is also a fan of the theatre and has in the last few years covered a diversity of roles in plays such as 'A Woman of No Importance', 'Anna in the Tropics', 'Tamburlaine' and 'Theatre of Blood', and currently she can be seen performing in London's West End in 'Look Back in Anger'.

Her first TV break was when she starred in American mini-series In the Beginning - charting God's creation of the universe and mankind opposite Jacqueline Bisset and Art Malik.