A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Rachel Ann Courtney began her career as 'Marion Crofts' the lead role in the BBC's long-running crime reconstruction drama 'Crimewatch' and on stage in British Theatre. After many successful performances in plays such as 'Gigi' and 'Bianca' in Shakespeare's 'Taming of The Shrew' Rachel moved to Los Angeles to continue developing her craft. She has starred in television commercials including Xbox Kinect, Domino's Pizza and Coca Cola and recently in the Feature Film 'Beach Bar' (Angelic Pictures/Universal) playing the role as Beth. Rachel has appeared in many short and Independent films including 'Third Shift' which was in the official selection of the Los Angeles United Festival, The Vampire International Film Festival and a winner at the Los Angeles ScreamFest and the comedy short 'A Beachwork Orange' running on Funny or Die and a selection at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. Rachel recently wrapped her recurring role on the hit webisode 'Couch Surfing.' Outside of her acting career, Rachel is athletic and trains in Mixed Martial Arts and Rock Climbing. She also loves to travel and spent time living in the Kunkujang Village in Gambia (Africa) as a Volunteer for the MondoChallenge Foundation.
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
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:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.