Meghan Markle is an American actress.
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Meghan Markle
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Birth Name
Rachel Meghan Markle
Date of Birth
4 August 1981, Los Angeles, California, USA
Height
5' 7" (1.7 m)
Life and Career
Rachel Meghan Markle (born August 4, 1981) is an American actress. Best known for her role as Rachel Zane on the TV legal drama Suits, she also played FBI special agent Amy Jessup in the sci-fi thriller Fringe.
Markle is a self-proclaimed foodie, which was incorporated into her Suits character Rachel Zane.
Early life and education
Markle was born and raised in Los Angeles County, California. Markle is of mixed race, and self-identifies as such: "My dad is Caucasian and my mom is African American. … I have come to embrace [it, and] to say who I am, to share where I'm from, to voice my pride in being a strong, confident mixed-race woman."
Her mother, Doria, has a Master's in Social Work and works in social welfare as a yoga therapist. Her father is Emmy Award winner Thomas W. Markle, whose profession—director of photography—had resulted in his daughter spending many years as a child on the set of Married... with Children.
Markle was educated privately at Immaculate Heart High School, the all-girls, independent Roman Catholic high school in Los Angeles. She graduated in 2003 with a communications degree from Northwestern University, where she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma.
Markle's acting career began unexpectedly when she was discovered at a party after her friend gave a manager a copy of Meghan's film in college to view. To support herself between acting jobs Markle worked as a freelance calligrapher.
Humanitarian work
Markle is actively involved in the socio-political arena. In 2016 she became the Global Ambassador for World Vision Canada, traveling to Rwanda for the Clean Water Campaign. She has also worked with the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women as an Advocate—she presented at UN Headquarters for the HeforShe gender equality campaign in September 2014. Markle traveled to Afghanistan with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on a USO tour in December 2014.
Markle was a Counsellor for the international charity One Young World, speaking at the annual summit in Dublin (2014) on the topics of gender equality and modern-day slavery. She also attended the Ottawa summit in 2016.
Acting career
Markle appeared in Fox's series Fringe as Junior Agent Amy Jessup in the first two episodes of its second season. Since July 2011 she has played Rachel Zane, "a paralegal working with Mike Ross (with his encyclopedic knowledge of the law—Patrick J. Adams) and becomes his valuable after-hours research ally" on the USA Network show Suits.
Markle appeared in two 2010 films, Get Him to the Greek and Remember Me and one 2011 film, Horrible Bosses. She appeared in the short film The Candidate (seen on the KQED public television show ImageMakers: the Company of Men) as a secretary in 2012.
In 2002, Markle appeared in an episode of the daytime soap opera, General Hospital. She has also appeared in episodes of Century City, Cuts, Love, Inc., The War at Home, 90210, Knight Rider, Without a Trace, The Apostles, CSI: NY, The League, Castle and Suits. Markle has also made appearances in the films A Lot Like Love and Deceit.
In November 2016, Markle and Canadian clothing company Reitmans released a line of reasonably priced women's fashion workwear.
Other Info
Twitter
twitter.com/meghanmarkle
Instagram
instagram.com/meghanmarkle
Website
thetig.com