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name: "Rachel Keller"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/rachel-keller"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "25 December 1992"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 80
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T14:41:29.525776+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."
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# Rachel Keller

Actor. Born 25 December 1992 in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 25 December 1992, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
- **Active:** 2014–present
- **Also known as:** Rachel Rye Keller, 瑞秋·凱勒, ریچل کلر
- **Average Fi1m score:** 80, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Keller_(actress), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21621668, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5043859/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1365769

## Coming up

- *Cupertino* (2026-10-08), as Olivia Siffre — [page](https://film.one/tv/cupertino.md)

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Legion*](https://film.one/tv/legion.md) (77)

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

## Fi1m on Rachel Keller

> Rachel Keller plays women who keep their distance and make you understand why. As Syd Barrett in *Legion* she gave a series built on unreality one thing worth believing in; we would like another showrunner to trust her the way Noah Hawley did.

Watch what Rachel Keller does with her arms. As Syd Barrett in *Legion* (2017), a patient on a psychiatric ward who will not let anyone touch her, she keeps them folded, or tucked, or a half-step further from David Haller than the frame seems to want. Dan Stevens plays David as a frightened man who apologises for everything, and Keller gives him someone to be careful around. Then the pilot puts them in a hospital corridor and lets them kiss, and the corridor comes apart. We sat forward. The series had spent forty minutes teaching us to believe nothing, and Keller had spent the same forty minutes making Syd's distance so plain that when she closed it, it counted.

Noah Hawley found her first. She was one of the Gerhardts in the second run of *Fargo* (2015), a daughter in a crime family that was eating itself, and the part got her noticed for the period accent and for how much fear she let show underneath it. Hawley then made her the female lead of *Legion*, which ran from 2017 to 2019. Since then the work has been steady and mostly in other people's shows: *The Society* (2019), Samantha Porter in *Tokyo Vice* (2022 to 2024), Sonya opposite Tom Hanks in *A Man Called Otto* (2022), *Butcher's Crossing* (2023).

The casting has a pattern. She is asked, again and again, to be the self-sufficient young woman inside a family or an institution that does not deserve her, and she does it without asking us to admire her for it. Her own account of the job is that she tells a story "through my body and my voice", and that is the right order. The accent and the lines arrive after the posture has already told you where she stands.

The caveat is that we know her best from one series, and she stayed for all twenty-seven episodes of it, including the nineteen we thought it did not need. Syd is the still point of *Legion*, and a still point has less to do once the writing around it stops knowing where it is going. The films since have been supporting parts, and supporting parts do not tell you whether an actor can carry ninety minutes on her own.

Start with the first eight episodes of *Legion* and watch her stand in a doorway deciding whether to come in. Someone should build a series around that decision.

## Biography

Rachel Keller is an American actress. She was born on 25 December 1992 in Los Angeles and grew up in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She attended the Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists and graduated in 2014 from Carnegie Mellon University.

Keller first gained recognition for her recurring role as Simone Gerhardt in the second season of the anthology series *Fargo* (2015). She starred as Sydney 'Syd' Barrett in the FX series *Legion* (2017–2019) and has appeared in *The Society* (2019), *Dirty John* (2020), *Tokyo Vice* (2022–2024) and films including *A Man Called Otto* (2022). She is cast as Olivia Siffre in the upcoming series *Cupertino* (2026).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, deadline.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Legion* (2017), Fi1m 77, as Sydney ‘Syd’ Barrett — [page](https://film.one/tv/legion.md)
- *Fargo* (2014), Fi1m 82, as Simone Gerhardt — [page](https://film.one/tv/fargo-2014.md)

## Complete filmography (20)

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

- *Cupertino* (2026), series, as Olivia Siffre — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/tv/cupertino.md)
- *The Tallest Dwarf* (2025), Acting
- *Chestnut* (2024), as Tyler
- *Butcher's Crossing* (2023), as Francine
- *A Man Called Otto* (2022), as Sonya
- *Tokyo Vice* (2022), series, as Samantha Porter
- *The Following Year* (2021), as Julia
- *In the Shadow of the Moon* (2019), as Jean
- *The Society* (2019), series, as Cassandra Pressman
- *Diddie Wa Diddie* (2019), as Janet
- *Dirty John* (2018), series, as Linda Kolkena
- *Write When You Get Work* (2018), as Ruth Duffy
- *Wig Shop* (2017), as Shoshana
- *Legion* (2017), series, as Sydney ‘Syd’ Barrett — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/legion.md)
- *Hollidaysburg* (2014), as Tori
- *Fargo* (2014), series, as Simone Gerhardt — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/fargo-2014.md)
- *Flutter* (2012), as Kaylin
- *I Still Adore You* (2012), as Cigarette Girl
- *The Mentalist* (2008), series, as Anne
- *Supernatural* (2005), series, as Sister Mathias

## Gallery

- ![Rachel Keller](https://film.one/media/person/95633/gallery-edd3750901ef.jpg) Rachel Keller — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Rachel_Keller_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/1280px-Rachel_Keller_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ben Travers, John Cameron, Jeph Loeb, Nathaniel Halpern, Dan Stevens, Rachel Keller, Aubrey Plaza, Jean Smart, Bill Irwin, Amber Midthunder, Jeremie Harris and  (2018)](https://film.one/media/person/95633/gallery-a5914b2cad66.jpg) Ben Travers, John Cameron, Jeph Loeb, Nathaniel Halpern, Dan Stevens, Rachel Keller, Aubrey Plaza, Jean Smart, Bill Irwin, Amber Midthunder, Jeremie Harris and  (2018) — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Ben_Travers%2C_John_Cameron%2C_Jeph_Loeb%2C_Nathaniel_Halpern%2C_Dan_Stevens%2C_Rachel_Keller%2C_Aubrey_Plaza%2C_Jean_Smart%2C_Bill_Irwin%2C_Amber_Midthunder%2C_Jeremie_Harris_%26_Navid_Negahban_%2842012505400%29.jpg/1280px-thumbnail.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Dan Stevens, Rachel Keller and Aubrey Plaza speaking at the 2018 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Legion", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Dieg](https://film.one/media/person/95633/gallery-25fd5805440d.jpg) Dan Stevens, Rachel Keller and Aubrey Plaza speaking at the 2018 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Legion", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Dieg — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Dan_Stevens%2C_Rachel_Keller_%26_Aubrey_Plaza_%2843104196284%29.jpg/1280px-Dan_Stevens%2C_Rachel_Keller_%26_Aubrey_Plaza_%2843104196284%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Dan Stevens and Rachel Keller speaking at the 2018 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Legion", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California.](https://film.one/media/person/95633/gallery-01341eb28309.jpg) Dan Stevens and Rachel Keller speaking at the 2018 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Legion", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Dan_Stevens_%26_Rachel_Keller_%2843821263381%29.jpg/1280px-Dan_Stevens_%26_Rachel_Keller_%2843821263381%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Rachel Keller](https://film.one/media/person/95633/gallery-d545f6c17cd4.jpg) Rachel Keller — Image via TMDB
- ![Rachel Keller](https://film.one/media/person/95633/gallery-944f15b200d5.jpg) Rachel Keller — Image via TMDB
- ![Rachel Keller](https://film.one/media/person/95633/gallery-944e8327f6d9.jpg) Rachel Keller — Image via TMDB
- ![Noah Hawley, Lauren Shuler Donner, Jeph Loeb, Dan Stevens, Rachel Keller, Aubrey Plaza, Navid Negahban, Jeremie Harris, Amber Midthunder and Lauren Tsai speakin (2019)](https://film.one/media/person/95633/gallery-de4e05ad8620.jpg) Noah Hawley, Lauren Shuler Donner, Jeph Loeb, Dan Stevens, Rachel Keller, Aubrey Plaza, Navid Negahban, Jeremie Harris, Amber Midthunder and Lauren Tsai speakin (2019) — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Noah_Hawley%2C_Lauren_Shuler_Donner%2C_Jeph_Loeb%2C_Dan_Stevens%2C_Rachel_Keller%2C_Aubrey_Plaza%2C_Navid_Negahban%2C_Jeremie_Harris%2C_Amber_Midthunder_%26_Lauren_Tsai_%2846609731855%29.jpg/1280px-thumbnail.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Rachel Keller speaking at the 2019 WonderCon, for "Legion", at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used e](https://film.one/media/person/95633/gallery-c273933c052c.jpg) Rachel Keller speaking at the 2019 WonderCon, for "Legion", at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used e — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Rachel_Keller_%2840559202193%29.jpg/1280px-Rachel_Keller_%2840559202193%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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