Career
Rachel Luttrell's training in dance and music naturally led her to the stage. She made her professional début in Canada's Premier Production of Miss Saigon in Toronto and the Premier Canadian Production of Disney's Beauty And The Beast in Toronto. She would go on to appear in many other stage productions such as "Once On This Island", Goblin Market, and the premier performance of Pultzer Prize winning play write Lynn Nottage's Las Meninas.
Following a move to Los Angeles, Luttrell would go on to appear in many guest star roles on television.
Frustrated with some of the roles being offered to her at the time, she was considering giving up on her acting career, and enrolling in UCLA to study architecture. She ventured to The UK instead and studied at the British American Drama Association on a midsummer course at Balliol College, Oxford. Shortly after her return to Los Angeles Rachel was cast in her most high-profile role to date, as Teyla Emmagan on Stargate Atlantis.
In 2011 Rachel released her debut Jazz album "I Wish You Love", which was produced by Austrian record producer Gerrit Kinkel and features Jazz greats like Jeff Hamilton, Jennifer Leitham, Graham Dechter and Konrad Paszkudzki. She was considered for the role of Storm in X-Men
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