Rachel Grant has worked extensively as an actress in film and TV and is most notable for her role as Bond Girl Peaceful-Fountains-of-Desire in the James Bond film Die Another Day. Further credits include Until Death with Jean Claude Van Damme, an assassin in The Tournament with Robert Carlyle and body double to Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider. Recently, Rachel won Best Actress and Best fight awards at the Shockfest Film Festival in Los Angeles for her performance in the critically acclaimed short film Red Princess Blues.

Rachel’s television career began in 2000, when she debuted as the hot new host of the Sci-Fi Channel’s Friday night segment in the UK and Europe, becoming Sci-fi’s most popular host and highest-rated show. She also appeared regularly as art and travel host on Cathay Pacific inflight entertainment, visiting some of Europe’s most well-known landmarks, museums and art galleries.

Travel has always been part and parcel of Rachel’s career. She regularly writes for Asia’s leading travel magazine Travelife, as well as Monday magazine and has her own column “Rachel Writes” in Only The Good. Her early profession as a Performing Artist took her all over the world. Rachel has already travelled to over 35 countries and counting! She has explored some of the wildest and most desolate places on our planet in pursuit of rare knowledge, wild flora and fauna, exotic hidden cultures, and for sheer excitement of all the senses!

Rachel has trekked the edge of the world’s most perfectly shaped cone, the deadly Mayon volcano in the Philippines, hiked the rainforests of the Amazon, communed with the Hourani tribe in Ecuador and ventured deep underground to ancient Mayan sacrificial caves in Guatemala. She has experienced the “naked communion” of Japanese bathing rituals in volcanic springs of Mount Fuji, swam with hammerheads in the Galapagos, witnessed lions mating in the Mara, scuba-dived through sunken warships in the South China Sea, and flamenco-danced her way through “La Feria de Sevilla” in Spain. The list goes on!

Rachel’s extraordinary “appetite” for adventure, coupled with her intriguing personality puts her where natives have claimed her as a local! Rachel has enjoyed: the “Royal Rat” delicacy of Belize, traditional fried tarantulas of Cambodia, sipped fresh blood from a live goat with the Masai tribe, chewed Japanese crispy locust bars and regularly devours her favorite snack - the Philippine street food balut, a fertilized duck egg complete with embryo.

Another facet of Rachel is her interest in traditional weaponry and martial arts. This year, Rachel has graced the cover of two leading international martial arts magazines where she talks of origins and history of various ancient Far Eastern weapons from nun-chakus to the single sword.

Rachel adores animals and is a sportscar enthusiast having taken part in the Bullrun Rally, driving cross-country from New York to Los Angeles. In 2011 she grabbed first place in the Tour of the Hamptons Car Rally answering all 21 trivial pursuit pit stop questions correct! Rachel also enjoys playing golf and partakes in the annual Broadcasters Foundation of America Golf Tournament.

Additionally, Rachel is an international beauty pageant queen and finalist representing both the Philippines and England. Recently she was invited to judge Miss Earth, the world’s 3rd most prestigious international beauty competition in Vietnam in 2010 and in Manila, Philippines in 2011 and watched by over 85 million.

In addition to her travels, television and film career, Rachel is an avid humanitarian. She is Global Ambassador to Human Nature, a social-enterprise in organic cosmetics helping poor farmers and the underprivileged in the Philippines. Additionally, Rachel is a supporter of the United Nations recognized slum re-building scheme Gawad Kalinga and has helped rebuild slum houses, pave streets and paint homes. She also launched Breast Cancer Awareness Month twice in the UK - once, abseiling down London’s tallest Rugby Stadium.

Born on the island of Luzon in the Philippines and raised in the legendary Robin Hood city of Nottingham in England, Rachel currently splits her time between Los Angeles, New York and London.

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