Rachel Keller

Rachel Keller
The Ring character
First appearance	The Ring
Last appearance	The Ring Two
Created by	Ehren Kruger
Portrayed by	Naomi Watts
Information
Full name	Rachel Keller
Occupation	Journalist
Family	Aidan Keller (son)

Rachel Keller is a fictional character in The Ring franchise. The character, created by writer-producer Ehren Kruger and portrayed by Naomi Watts, serves as the protagonist of The Ring and The Ring Two, sharing similarities with Reiko Asakawa from the Japanese films.

Introduced in the 2002 film, Rachel is an investigative journalist who must figure out a way to escape death after watching a cursed video tape that she discovered while investigating the death of her niece. In The Ring Two, Rachel must delve into the history of Samara Morgan after her son gets sick with a mysterious ailment.

In The Ring, Rachel Keller, an investigative journalist, is asked by her sister Ruth to investigate the mysterious circumstances behind her niece Katie's death. She informs Rachel that she found her daughter's distorted corpse in the closet and that her official cause of death was a heart attack, despite Katie being a healthy teenager. Katie's remaining friends make Rachel aware of the legend of the cursed videotape and that Becca, Katie's friend, was institutionalized after witnessing her being killed. She also discovers that Katie's boyfriend and her two other friends all died in bizarre accidents on the same night at 10 PM. Rachel travels to Shelter Mountain Inn and stays at Cabin 12, the same cabin where Katie and her friends watched the cursed videotape. Rachel finds the mysterious tape and watches it, after which the phone rings. Rachel hears a childish voice utter "seven days". Rachel seeks help from her ex-boyfriend Noah Clay, a video analyst. Later, Rachel discovers that Aidan watched the tape just as Noah calls her and tells her that he believes her. Rachel researches the lighthouse from the tape and discovers that it was located in Moesko Island, the home of an ill-fated horse breeder named Anna Morgan, who appeared on the cursed videotape. After investigating, Rachel discovers Anna had an adopted daughter named Samara, who possessed nensha, allowing her to burn disturbing images into the minds of people, animals and objects. Rachel meets Anna’s surviving husband Richard, but he makes her leave when she begins to ask questions about Samara. She then speaks to the island’s physician, Dr. Grasnik, who explains that Anna experienced horrible visions and dreams after Samara began burning gruesome images into her mind. Rachel watches the missing medical footage, which was revealed to be Samara explaining her powers to her psychiatrist during a psychiatric session. As the footage ends, Richard abruptly strikes her in the head and subsequently decides to end the torment Samara inflicted upon him by electrocuting himself in the bathtub. Noah arrives and they discover an image of the same tree found in both Shelter Mountain Inn and the cursed videotape beneath the wallpaper in the attic of a horse barn, where Samara was kept to prevent her from inflicting harm onto others. Returning to Shelter Mountain Inn, they discover a well beneath the floorboards of Cabin 12. Rachel accidentally falls into the well, where she receives a vision revealing that Anna was the one who killed Samara via suffocating her with a plastic bag and dumping her body into the well, where she survived for seven days. Finding her skeletal remains, Rachel discovers that tge time she was supposed to be killed by the curse has passed, she and Noah return home, believing the curse was finally broken. However, Aidan makes her realize the curse was never ending. Noah is killed and Rachel discovers that she was to late. She realizes that she had been spared after making a copy and passing the copy to Noah. Rachel decides to save Aidan by making a copy of the initial copy she sent to Noah so that he can avoid death by showing someone else the tape.

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