Rachel Shapiro

Rachel Shapiro is a Chicago based actor and singer originally from Berkeley, California. She attended Northwestern University where she majored in Theatre and Music Theatre and minored in Business. While at school, Rachel performed in many productions and served as Co-Chair of the annual WAA-MU show. In addition, she was a member of the country's largest and oldest student run theatre board, Arts Alliance, for all four of her years. Since moving to Chicago, Rachel has worked with such local theaters as: Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Windy City Playhouse, Remy Bumppo, The House Theatre of Chicago, Drury Lane Theatre, Piven Theatre Workshop, Theater Wit, and Boho Theatre Ensemble (among others). Regionally she has worked with Kansas City Repertory Theatre and American Conservatory Theatre. She has also taken improvisation classes at Second City. When she is not onstage, Rachel runs her business (Storybook Princess Parties) that provides character entertainment for children's birthday parties and is a volunteer at PAWS Chicago. She loves buttered noodles, chocolate milk, quoting Friends, reciting every dog's inner monologue as they pass her by, and all things Disney.

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Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)

While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

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