---
name: "Rachel Benaissa"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/rachel-benaissa"
fi1m_id: "rachel-benaissa"
imdb_id: "nm10469183"
tmdb_id: 3964443
roles: ["Actor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-21T02:13:04.963094+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Rachel Benaissa

## Identity

Rachel Benaissa

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/rachel-benaissa
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** rachel-benaissa
- **IMDb ID:** nm10469183
- **TMDB ID:** 3964443
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10469183/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3964443

Actor. Born in Toulouse, France.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Active:** 2020–present
- **Also known as:** Rachel Mariam
- **Average Fi1m score:** 74, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10469183/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3964443

## Biography

Rachel Benaissa, also credited as Rachel Mariam, is a French actress and writer based in London.

Her acting credits include the role of Teaching Assistant 1 in the 2020 series *Normal People*, Barista in the 2021 series *This Way Up*, Clémence Elliot in the 2022 series *Murder in Provence*, Allegra in the 2024 film *Irish Wish*, and Woman in Bathroom in the 2024 film *September Says*.

As a writer, her dramedy feature script *Juliet Is Fine* placed in the top 10% of the Academy Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship in 2020 and 2021, and was a finalist in the 2021 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards.

*Sources: imdb.com, watch.plex.tv.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *September Says* (2025), Fi1m 63, as Woman in Bathroom — [page](https://film.one/film/september-says.md)
- *Normal People* (2020), Fi1m 84, as Teaching Assistant 1 (as Rachel Mariam) — [page](https://film.one/tv/normal-people.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *September Says* (2025), as Woman in Bathroom — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/september-says.md)
- *Irish Wish* (2024), as Allegra (as Rachel Mariam)
- *Dare to Say Yes* (2023), Writer
- *Murder in Provence* (2022), series, as Clémence Elliot
- *I Am* (2021), Writer
- *Normal People* (2020), series, as Teaching Assistant 1 (as Rachel Mariam) — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/normal-people.md)

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