Rachael
Leigh Cook was an overnight success after Shes All That, but its the
old story: overnight takes many, many nights (and days). After
the huge hit, Shes All That (1999), Cook didnt, as one would have
predicted, stick exclusively with a teen flick run. The actor mixed her genres:
Blow Dry (2000), Texas Rangers (2000), Get Carter (2000), Batman Beyond (2000,
voice), Antitrust (2001), and Tangled (2001). The Minnesota-born beauty was a
print model by 1989, at age 10, for products that required wide-eyed wholesome
little girls (like dog biscuits
), and later moved to television commercials
shes particularly remembered for two public service ads, one for
a foster parents program, and the other a this-is-your-brain-on-heroin egg-smashing
shocker. Cooks first magazine cover shoot was for the November 96
issue of React, and she appeared in the 1998 music video, Kiss Me, for Sixpence
None the Richer.
Acting
gigs had already come along, requiring Cook to, first, move to Los Angeles, and,
second, complete high school studies via a special school for working actors.
Cook first hit the big screen in 1995s The Babysitters Club, and went
on to a mix of film and television work: 26 Summer St (1996), Tom and Huck (1996
for a Young Star award nomination), Carpool (1996), The Eighteenth Angel
(1997), True Women (1997, TV), Country Justice (1997, TV), The Defenders: Payback
(1997), The House of Yes (1997), Strike! (1998), The Naked Man (1998), Living
Out Loud (1998), The Bumblebee Flies Away (1999), three episodes of Dawsons
Creek (TV) and one episode of The Outer Limits (TV).
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