Rachel Shelley

You Might Know Her From

Rachel Shelley is our first guest across the pond! You Might Know Her From The L Word, Deep State, Rogue, The Ghost Whisperer, Once Upon a Time…, Casualty, and Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India. We talked to Rachel about playing Helena Peabody for five seasons on the OG L Word, navigating the twists and turns that her character took from cold heiress, to one of the crew, from prison to discovering during the filming of season six that it ultimately would become a murder mystery around Jenny Schecter. Plus we need someone to gift us the unaired spin-off, The Farm. All that plus respecting the ghost bible on The Ghost Whisperer, playing gay to a fedora-wearing Heather Graham in Gray Matters, and starring in the epic Bollywood film Lagaan that earned an Oscar nom for Best Foreign Language film. This one was an absolute pleasure, moving hair and all.

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Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India

The Laws of Attraction (with Pierce Brosnan) and The Rules of Attraction (with Shannyn and YES Faye Dunaway)

Brett Butler is in The Morning Show! So is Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Auditioned with musical number: “The Sound of Music”

Kim Cattrall is in the Hilary Duff show How I Met Your Father (which takes place in 2050)

Deep State and Rogue created by husband Matthew Park Hill

Helena Peabody on The L Word

Her mom was played by lesbian legend Holland Taylor

Loved working opposite Alexandra Hedison and was mildly intimidated by Melissa Leo

Women’s prison movies like Women in Cell Block 9

Where is the L Word spinoff The Farm?! Starting Leisha Hailey, Melissa Leo, and Laurie Metcalf

Murder mystery for L Word was meant to be a stand alone season UGH

Has not been asked to come back for L Word: Gen Q

Works with Diva Magazine in the UK providing PodDiva

Started opp previous guest Guinevere Turner

in Different for Girls

MA at Goldsmiths University in Radio Production

Did doc on grief for BBC Radio 4

Got the Leisha Hailey & Kate Moennig podcast, PANTS off the ground

Hosts pod with Victoria Broom

Starred opp Jon Voight in Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story

Lesbians and fedoras Gray Matters with a Heather Graham

Plays ghost in Ghost Whisperer and Photographing Fairies (1997) with Ben Kingsley

GHOST BIBLE!!! Hair of a ghost shouldn’t move

Started opp David Bowie in Everybody Loves Sunshine aka B.U.S.T.E.D.

Got stabbed in the BBC series Casualty

Poor Yolanda Ross got a DM from Damian

Rumplestiltskin vs Captain Hook on the tv show Once Upon a Time (we love Rumple)

Amy Irving Rumplestiltskin was formative for Anne