Rachel Gatina
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| Rachel Gatina | |
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 Danneel Harris as Rachel Gatina |
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| First appearance | An Attempt to Tip the Scales (episode 3.04) |
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| Nickname(s) | Rach |
| Age | 18 |
| Year of birth | 1988 |
| Occupation | Student Model for Maxim (magazine) |
| Relationships | Cooper Lee (Ex-boyfriend) Lucas Scott (Ex-boyfriend |
| Episode count | 33 |
| Portrayed by | Danneel Harris |
| Created by | Mark Schwahn |
Rachel Gatina is a fictional character on the CW television series One Tree Hill, played by Danneel Harris.
| “ | I was looking for condoms. Something you should've probably been doing. | ” |
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— Rachel Gatina
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[edit] Biography
Rachel is a very emotional girl. She also can be very conniving and cruel as well as vindictive. She does have some redeeming features. She feels deeply for Cooper Lee and is very much in love with him. In one episode, she rescues a ridiculed and unpopular classmate named Jimmy Edwards from a group of jocks trying to beat him up. Many One Tree Hill fans feel Rachel is an evil character, but she is actually quite complex. She is also very smart, saying that she "can pass calculus in her sleep."
[edit] Season Three
Rachel Gatina is the new girl at Tree Hill High School in season three. She at first has a crush on Lucas Scott (Chad Michael Murray) which begins a long rivalry between her and Brooke Davis (Sophia Bush). Although she later decides to cut it off when she realises he's only using her to get Brooke jealous. She quickly becomes a cheerleader and tries to become the head of them by sending Brooke off to a designer contest but that fails.
She then begins to get closer and closer to Mouth, but they go their own way after she reveals that she was the one responsible for the Time Capsule incident, which led to Keith's death. It is also revealed that she used to be fat but was operated upon. She also had her nose and breasts done. Mouth falls for her again, but she has a crush on Nathan Scott's (James Lafferty) uncle Cooper Lee (Michael Trucco). He later breaks it up when he discovers that she is only 17. At the season three finale, Rachel and Cooper get into a car crash (caused by Rachel), and viewers are left with a cliffhanger as to who, if anyone, survives. She is also not pregnant (viewers were left with the question: who's pregnant?).
[edit] Season Four
However she survives and becomes roommate with Brooke, ending their rivalry since Brooke is now at odds with Peyton. She tries to break Nathan and Haley up so that Nathan can replace Cooper but backs off when she discovers Haley's pregnancy. She then accidentally sets Brooke up with her English teacher. Brooke and the English teacher, Nick, dated happily until he hit on Rachel. Rachel reports this to the school and Brooke later breaks up with Nick. Together they steal the answers to one of Brooke's calculus tests but as they get caught are forced to pretend being clean teens members and born again virgins.
After the stripping contest she and Mouth seem to have forgiven each other. Haley confronted Rachel and told her that she thinks she stole the test answer and she says that if she finds it is her she will turn her in. During the assignment were students get to know one another better she is paired with Bevin, smokes cannabis, asks herself if she is into girls and reveals to Bevin that she has never felt anything with a boy. She takes the blame for stealing the test by switching her and Brooke's surprise test and is expelled as a result. Rachel leaves to meet her parents but both Mouth and Brooke realize they are going to miss her.
[edit] Quotes
- "I was looking for condoms. Something you should've probably been doing." -Rachel to Brooke
- "I saw the pregnancy leaflets on your nightstand, what is that? A little bedtime reading?" - Rachel to Brooke
- "So who is really the "'big brother'". - Rachel to Brooke
[edit] Trivia
- Her last name has been spelled on the show as "Gatina" four times since the final episode of season three despite the CW website spelling it as "Gattina".
- Her last name means little female cat in Spanish.
- She is responsible for the expression "to Brooke yourself", after she caught Brooke masturbating, which is now used by the whole school.
| One Tree Hill | ||
| Episode list | Official site | ||
| General | Mark Schwahn | I Don't Want to Be (Theme) | episode titles | |
| Current Main Characters | Lucas Scott | Nathan Scott | Peyton Sawyer | Haley James Scott Dan Scott | Brooke Davis | Deborah Lee | Mouth McFadden Skills Taylor | Rachel Gatina | Whitey Durham | Karen Roe |
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| Former Main Characters |
Keith Scott (S1-S3) |
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| Recurring Characters |
Bevin Mirskey | Tim Smith | Jake Jagielski | Nicki | Cooper Lee |
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| Places | Wilmington, North Carolina | |
