Rachel Herbert

{{Short description|British actress (1935–2025)}}

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Rachel Nicola Herbert (5 January 1935 – 7 March 2025) was a British actress whose television appearances included roles in Deadline Midnight (1960), Thursday Theatre (1964), The Villains (1964), No Hiding Place (1963–65), Danger Man (1965),[http://www.danger-man.co.uk/episodeDetails.asp?episodeID=74&seriesNo=3 Herbert on the Danger Man website] The Power Game (1965–66), and Thirty-Minute Theatre (1967). She appeared in The Prisoner episode entitled "Free for All" (1967) as Number Fifty-Eight but ultimately revealed to be the new Number Two.

Other roles include ITV Play of the Week (1965–67), Man in a Suitcase (1968), Spindoe (1968), The Champions (1969), Callan (1970), Special Branch (1970), ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1971); episode 1 of Lord Peter Wimsey 's Clouds of Witness, Murder Must Advertise (1973), The Pallisers (1974), The Venturers (1975), Softly, Softly: Taskforce (1974–75), Shadows (1978), The Professionals (1978), Prince Regent (1979), The Enigma Files (1980), Minder (1980), Crown Court (1973–84), Screen Two (1986), and The House of Eliott (1994).[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0378617/ Profile], Internet Movie Database; accessed 20 September 2021.

Herbert's film appearances include Robbery (1967), The Raging Moon (1971) and The Doctor and the Devils (1985).

Herbert died on 7 March 2025, at the age of 90.{{Cite web |title=The Unmutual Website - The Prisoner Patrick McGoohan Portmeirion Home Page |url=https://www.theunmutual.co.uk/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJ4t9dleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETA1SVlqdUhjaU0xbmtFRTkyAR4MbbxbXgOeqtmxi6LR4I0CD3_xmj9SH7DVVWO8ok08b7ztDdyoxny0h8DenA_aem_6IafPumMQ9cetIN5xgpDTA |access-date=25 April 2025 |website=www.theunmutual.co.uk}}