This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources. Star Wars: The Old Republic - Shadow of Revan Star Wars: The Old Republic - Rise of the Hutt Cartel Television film ( Hallmark Movies & Mysteries) The couple separated in June 2019 and divorced in 2021. They have two children: a daughter born September 2013 and a son born April 2015. Personal life Ĭook married actor Daniel Gillies on August 8, 2004, whom she dated since 2001. The ad was posted to YouTube on April 20, 2017, in recognition of 4/20. In 2017, Rachael Leigh Cook reprised her "This Is Your Brain on Drugs" role twenty years later for a PSA by the Drug Policy Alliance critiquing the War on Drugs and its contribution to mass incarceration, structural racism and poverty. The scholarship helps pay for career classes, mentoring programs, and other school fees. In June 2012, she began to award a small scholarship to students between ages 14 and 19. In 2011, she was selected by the Obama administration as a Champion of Change for Arts Education. Public service Ĭook first gained national attention in 1997, when she was featured in the famous This Is Your Brain on Drugs PSA television advertisement, in which she proceeds to destroy a kitchen with a frying pan. She produced and starred in the film Love, Guaranteed which debuted on Netflix on September 3, 2020. Ĭook owns her own production company, Ben's Sister Productions (in reference to her younger brother Ben Cook). In 2020 Cook appeared in the fifteenth season of Criminal Minds playing the role of Max in the final episodes of the series. Cook's latest voice-over role is for the video game Yakuza in which she voices the role of Reina. In 2011, she voiced the character of Jaesa Willsaam in the MMO game, Star Wars: The Old Republic.
Cook voiced Tifa Lockhart in the video games Kingdom Hearts II, Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII and Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy, as well as the CG movie Final Fantasy VII Advent Children.
Ĭook provided the voice for Chelsea Cunningham on the Kids' WB animated series Batman Beyond and in the animated film Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker. 2017 also saw Cook develop, star and executive produce the Hallmark Channel film Frozen in Love, which was broadcast in January 2018 as part of the channel's 'Winterfest' season of programming. In the same year, she starred in another Hallmark film, Autumn In the Vineyard, followed by its sequel Summer in the Vineyard in 2017. Ĭook starred in the Hallmark Channel original film Summer Love in 2016. She also appeared in a Funny or Die sketch with Chad Michael Murray. She starred in the independent film Broken Kingdom, which was directed by her husband Daniel Gillies. In 2012, Cook signed on to play the female lead role in the TNT crime drama series Perception opposite Eric McCormack. She had a role in the Western horror film Vampire, the English-language feature debut of Japanese director Iwai Shunji. In February 2010, Cook signed on to play the female lead role in Fox TV's comedy pilot Nirvana. She reprised the role in the following season. In 2008, she guest-starred in an episode of the USA Network series Psych as Abigail Lytar. She has appeared in numerous episodes of the Seth Green comedies Titan Maximum and Robot Chicken. She played the female lead in the independent sports drama The Final Season. In 2007, Cook was seen in the big screen adaptation of Nancy Drew. In 2006, she appeared in the music video for Daniel Powter's " Love You Lately". She also appeared as a main cast member in the 2005 television miniseries Into the West produced by Steven Spielberg. In 2003, she starred in the film 11:14 as Cheri. 26 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World". She also starred in the music video for New Found Glory's 2000 single " Dressed to Kill". In 2000, she was the cover girl for the U.S. She took the lead role in 2001's Josie and the Pussycats, which turned out to be a box office failure, although it has since become a cult classic. In 2000 she starred opposite Elijah Wood in the well-received The Bumblebee Flies Anyway. In 1999, Cook starred in her breakout role in the sleeper hit film She's All That, a romantic comedy that so far is the most financially successful film of her career. In 1997, Cook appeared in a leading role in the film Country Justice as a 15-year-old rape victim who is impregnated by her rapist. In 1996, her modeling agency sent her to star in a short film, 26 Summer Street. She also played a role in the adventure film Tom and Huck, released in December 1995. She made her screen debut as an actress in the 1995 film The Baby-Sitters Club. Cook began auditioning for acting work at the age of 14.