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Wikipedia Summary for Rachel Brosnahan
Rachel Elizabeth Brosnahan (born July 12, 1990) is an American actress. She stars as aspiring stand-up comedian Miriam "Midge" Maisel in the Amazon Prime Video period comedy series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017–present), for which she has won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 2018 and two consecutive Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy in 2018 and 2019. She also had a recurring role in the Netflix political thriller series House of Cards (2013–2015), for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination and played a lead role in the WGN drama series Manhattan (2014–15).
Brosnahan made her film debut in the horror film The Unborn (2009) and has subsequently appeared in films including Beautiful Creatures (2013), Louder Than Bombs (2015), The Finest Hours (2016), and Patriots Day (2016).
Trying my hand at standup was exciting to me.
Comedy was not necessarily the thing that I thought it would be, but I was searching for something that felt scary to me.
If you play a doctor on TV, you probably shouldn't try performing surgery.
I'm somebody who hasn't really felt fairly confident in my own life.
Wrestling is like improv. You have to feel and sense what the other person is going to do next and respond faster than they do.
Early on, you don't have the luxury of a lot of choices. Sometimes you're forced to do things that will advance your career and not necessarily things that fulfill you artistically, but I've been fortunate to do a lot of both.
I can finally say I'm a professional actress.
Issa Rae is a hero of mine, and I'm going to try not to completely creep her out. I love 'Insecure.'
I know so many extraordinary women who I never get to see represented on screen, and that's shameful.
I grew up on the North Shore of Chicago, and I don't think I had a friend that wasn't Jewish. I spent more time in a temple than any other house of worship. I've been to about 150 bar and bat mitzvahs.
I think where I feel the most vulnerable and anxious and sometimes insecure is when it comes to my work. It's arguably the thing that I care about the most.
I think everybody, especially every woman that you speak to, has gone through periods of their life where they feel uncertain or insecure. But I've been fortunate in my own life never to have gone through extended periods of crippling insecurity.
I grew up happily immersed in Jewish culture and community.
I'm used to one-dimensional female friendships. It's become a kind of trope.
Period pieces hold up a mirror to the world that we live in.
I really love period pieces.
It's a strange thing that we're actors, and we're always playing a character, and then suddenly we're at a place like Cannes, and we're getting photographed as ourselves, and you're like, 'What do you do?'
I feel like I want to and have to do everything once.
I can't take anything seriously.
I need to do more on stage. I've got to get my fix!
Drama was all I ever wanted to do. There was no plan B!
Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
Home is where your rump rests.
I think home has become my friends and family, wherever they are.
I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter -- sometimes for an entire family.
No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they don't have the resources. It's very unfair.