Biography
Rachel Pickup is a British actress born in London on 15 July 1973. She is the daughter of actors Ronald Pickup and Lans Traverse and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
She made her screen debut with the lead role of Kaye Bentley in the BBC series No Bananas (1996). Television credits include Small Island (2009) as Mrs Ryder, Midsomer Murders (2008), Elementary (2014) as Allison Fuller, and The Gilded Age (2023–present) as Miss André. Film roles encompass Chronic (2015) as Sarah and Wonder Woman (2017) as Fausta Grables.
Pickup has worked extensively in theatre, appearing in many Shakespearean roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company and in West End and Broadway productions. She won a Herald Angel Award for Ophelia in Hamlet and a Manchester Theatre Award for Time and the Conways.
