Rachael Beck | |
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Rachael Beck, 2011
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Background information | |
Born |
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
February 9, 1971
Occupation(s) | Musical theatre and television actress-singer |
Years active | 1985–present |
Website | rachaelbeck |
Rachael Elizabeth Beck (born 9 February 1971) is an Australian stage and television singer-actress. From 1991 to 1994 Beck had a major role on the popular sitcom, Hey Dad..!, as Samantha Kelly. From 2006 to 2008, Beck appeared on all three seasons of Seven Network's celebrity singing competition It Takes Two, as a singing coach successively for Mark Furze, Ernie Dingo and Mark Wilson. She has appeared in the Australian musical theatre productions of Cats (1985), Disney's Beauty and the Beast (1995–96), Les Misérables (1995–96), The Sound of Music (August 2000 to February 2001), Cabaret, Singing in the Rain and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Beck released her first solo album This Girl on 7 March 2014.
Beck grew up in Sydney, and her father John Beck directed her in school musicals. She has a brother and sister. At nine-years-old Beck was performing at Eisteddfods where she sang "The Count" (from Sesame Street). She attended SCECGS Redlands school in Sydney.
In 2001 she married fellow actor, Ian Stenlake and the couple have two daughters, Tahlula was born on 15 January 2007 and Roxie was born on 19 April 2009..
Beck is an ambassador for the Australian Children's Music Foundation, a non-profit organisation which aims to provide musical instruments to children in disadvantaged, remote and Indigeounous communities in Australia.