With all of the talk on The Craft remake coming next year, I thought it would be a good idea to check up on one of the four witches from the original film. We all know what Neve Campbell, Fairuza Balk and Robin Tunney have been up to since their days of magical mischief, but what about Rachel True? Rachel was born in New York in 1966 and started her career in the entertainment industry in 1991. As a guest starring actress she appeared on a dozen popular television shows including “The Cosby Show,” “Hangin with Mr. Cooper,” “Renegade,” “Beverly Hills 90210,” “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” and “Family Matters” until 1995.
Later that year True started to move into major motion pictures, her first supporting role being in Embrace of the Vampire alongside future “Charmed” actress Alyssa Milano. The following year she landed the supporting role of Rochelle in the cult teen classic The Craft. In my opinion, her character there was severely underdeveloped but was still central to the overall plot. In 1997 True appeared in the scifi-drama Nowhere followed by the stoner classic Half Baked in 1998. Eventually she moved back to television for a spell (get it?) and costarred on “The Drew Cary Show” for seven episodes, also in 1998. She finished up the millenium with a role in mystery-thriller The Auteur Theory in 1999.
So, where is Rachel True now?
She still continues to act to this day, although she hasn’t achieved as much notoriety as the first half of her career. From 2002 to 2006 Rachel played one of the leads in “Half & Half” and that seemed to be her biggest achievement of the 2000s decade. Well, she did appear in several episodes of the Emmy Award winning docu-series “Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List,” but I wouldn’t consider that acting. In 2012 Rachel appeared in scifi’s White Room: 0283, a genre she’d stay in for some time with her next roles being a supporting character in Blood Lake: Attack of the Killer Lampreys (2014) and a very small role in Sharknado 2: The Second One (2014).
