Rachel Pilkington

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| name = Rachel Pilkington

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| birth_name = Rachel Carson Pilkington

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1974|11|28|df=y}}{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/RCPilkington/status/529581452552589313|title=28th November (15 yrs from now) Note: The "15 yrs from now" remark is made in jest.|publisher=Rachel Pilkington Twitter|date=4 November 2014|accessdate=28 March 2017}}

| birth_place = County Tipperary, Ireland

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| occupation = Actress

| yearsactive = 1997–

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Rachel Carson Pilkington (born 28 November 1974) is an Irish actress.{{cite web|url=http://www.actorsandmovers.com/female/rachel_pilkington.html|title=Rachel Pilkington|website=Actors and Movers|publisher=Actors and Movers – Halina Froudist|accessdate=25 May 2015|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323121335/http://www.actorsandmovers.com/female/rachel_pilkington.html|archivedate=23 March 2012}}

Career

In 2004, Pilkington received an IFTA nomination in the Best Actress in a Supporting Role – Film/TV category for her role in The Clinic.{{cite web|url=http://www.ifta.ie/winners/iftawinners2004.html |title=Winners 2004 |publisher=Irish Film & Television Awards |accessdate=6 October 2013}} She has been playing the role of Jane Black in RTÉ soap opera Fair City since 2013.{{cite web|url=https://stillslibrary.rte.ie/indexplus/image/1438/008.html|title=Rachel Pilkington as Jane Black and Sean Doyle as Callum Black in Fair City (2013)|work=Stills Library|publisher=RTÉ Archives|accessdate=28 March 2017}}

Personal life

She is the daughter of the actor Joe Pilkington who played Eamonn Maher in the television serial, The Riordans.{{cite news|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/news/galway-actor-forever-linked-to-riordans-1.205112|title=Galway actor forever linked to Riordans|work=The Irish Times|date=10 July 1999|accessdate=28 March 2017}} She is divorced and has a child.{{Cite web|url=https://www.rsvplive.ie/news/tv-film/fair-city-star-rachel-pilkington-17261216|title=Rachel Pilkington 'ready to date' again after the end of her marriage|first=Kayla|last=Walsh|date=26 June 2019|website=RSVP Live}} Pilkington follows a vegan diet.{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/veganfuture/status/504393790409289728|title=Vegan actress Rachel Pilkington makes the cover of Ireland's biggest selling magazine|publisher=Vegan Future Twitter Account|date=26 August 2014|accessdate=28 March 2017}}

Filmography

class="wikitable sortable" \|+ Television
Year ! Title ! Role
1997–2000 \| Glenroe \| Jennifer Crosby
1998 \| Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog \| Village Mother
1999 \| Trí Scéal \| Young Eileen
2003–2009 \| The Clinic \| Keelin Geraghty Donaghue
2012 \| Keys to the City \| Denise
2013 \| Scúp \| Bríd
2013–2023 \| Fair City \| Jane Black

class="wikitable sortable"

|+ Television

Year

! Title

! Role

1997–2000

| Glenroe

| Jennifer Crosby

1998

| Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog

| Village Mother

1999