---
name: "Rachel Bennette"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/rachel-bennette"
fi1m_id: "rachel-bennette"
imdb_id: "nm0072130"
tmdb_id: 213039
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T17:51:59.104297+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 Bennette

## Identity

Rachel Bennette

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/rachel-bennette
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** rachel-bennette
- **IMDb ID:** nm0072130
- **TMDB ID:** 213039
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0072130/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/213039

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Active:** 2012–2016
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0072130/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/213039

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Ripper Street*](https://film.one/tv/ripper-street.md) (74)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Rachel Bennette is a British screenwriter and script editor. She began her career in script development at the BBC, Granada Television, Redwave Films/Fox Searchlight and Film4 before becoming a writer.

Her credits include episodes of the BBC series *Lark Rise to Candleford* (2010–2011) and *Ripper Street* (2014–2016), the screenplay for the film *Bel Ami* (2012), and an episode of *Lewis* (2012). She adapted Zadie Smith’s novel *NW* for BBC Two (2016), which received a BAFTA nomination for Best Single Drama and won the FIPA d’Or. She also wrote and executive produced the BBC adaptation of Agatha Christie’s *Towards Zero* (2025).

Bennette has originated several television projects and adapted George Eliot’s *The Mill on the Floss* for the BBC.

*Sources: imdb.com, curtisbrown.co.uk, bbc.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Ripper Street* (2012), Fi1m 74, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/ripper-street.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

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

- *Towards Zero* (2025), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator
- *NW* (2016), Writer
- *Ripper Street* (2012), series, Writer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/ripper-street.md)
- *Bel Ami* (2012), Screenplay
- *Lark Rise to Candleford* (2008), series, Writer
- *Lewis* (2007), series, Screenplay
- *The Emperor's New Clothes* (2001), Script Editor

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