Rachel Tikotin is an American film and television actress who participated in the filming of more than forty television projects, mainly portraying strong, armed women with combat training. Tikotin is best known for the role of Melina, a brave participant in underground resistance on Mars, in the sci-fi action movie “Remember Everything,” which starred with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone.
Biography
Rachel was born on November 1, 1958 in the Bronx, one of the five districts of New York, in the family of a salesman of used cars Abe Tikotin and teacher Iris Torres. Rachel's father is a Russian Jew, and his mother is a Puerto Rican woman who immigrated in the early fifties in search of a better life.
The actress lived in the southern part of the area, inhabited mainly by Puerto Ricans. Rachel Tikoin has three brothers: Marcus, Daniel, David A and sister, also an actress, Nancy. Daniel Tikotin, who took the pseudonym Sahaj, is a vocalist, guitarist and leader of a popular rock band.
At the age of eight, parents gave Rachel to study choreography at a Latin American ballet school located in Manhattan (New York). As an actress, Tikotin made her debut as a child, at the age of 10, participating in independent theater productions on the stage of the New York Central City Theater. And already from the age of 12, having decided to become a professional ballerina, she began to perform with the Spanish ballet and at the same time improve her dancing skills, studying with the famous choreographers: Alvin Ailey, Anna Sokolova and Jeffrey Holder.
The beginning of an acting career
Rachel (Rachel Ticotin) migrated to the film industry from the big ballet. Her first role on the screens was of a dance character: at twenty, she played a gypsy dancer from the drama "Gypsy King". The film featured Hollywood stars: Eric Roberts, Brooke Shields and Susan Sarandon. A few years later, working as an assistant producer, Rachel managed to get a job in the brutal crime drama about the police Fort Apache: The Bronx. She played the image of Isabella, the lover of the hero Paul Newmn. This role was a breakthrough in Tikotin's career. After the release of the picture, Rachel was named one of the twelve promising actors in John Willis’s 1981 World of the Screen.
Movies with Rachel Ticotin
In 1983, the girl played on a regular basis in the drama series of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) "In the Name of Love and Honor", where she met her future husband, partner on the set, David Caruso. In addition, Rachel starred in such TV shows as Ohara (the project is notable for being one of the first to play an actor of Asian appearance), Prison Stories: Women Inside, American Family (about the life of Latin Americans in Los Angeles), Skin, Law and Order: Los Angeles as Lieutenant Arlene Gonzalez and Gargoyles, voiced by Captain Maria Chavez.
Rachel Tikotin has repeatedly appeared on the big screen, her works include the following:
- Rachel Atwood from the comedy Critical State, about a con artist posing as a surgeon;
- Grace from the crime drama "One Good Cop";
- Kim Brandon from the action movie "F / X2: The Deadly Art of Illusion";
- Officer Landers from the dramatic film directed by Mark Rocco, “Go with the Flow,” in which Will Smith made his debut;
- Prison guard Sally Bishop from the Air Prison action movie with Nicholas Cage (for this role, Rachel received Alma, a prize awarded to Latin American actors);
- Sandra Torres from the thriller “Enough for Me” with Michael Douglas in the title role;
- Dona Ines from the romantic comedy Don Juan De Marco with Johnny Depp,
- Rosa Martinez from the horror movie Eye;
- Maggie from the dramatic comedy “Cannot Be Paradise”;
- Dr. Martinez from the comedy melodrama “Love by the rules and without” about love in old age of two opposites, with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton;
- Esther from the drama "America" ​​by Puerto Rican director Sonya Fritz.
Personal life
In 1983, Rachel Ticotin married actor and producer David Caruso. June 1, 1984 the couple had a daughter, who was given the name Greta. The girl graduated from a prestigious educational institution - Yale University. The marriage did not last long, and after five years the family broke up, Rachel got a divorce.
In 1991, she married Peter Strauss, also an actor known for his roles in several miniseries of the seventies and eighties. Ticotin is married to Strauss to this day.