Rachel Luttrell

Rachel Luttrell is an accomplished actress and singer who has worked in both film, television and on stage.
Rachel Zawadi Luttrell was born in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, and is the second born of four daughters to Veronica MakihiyoShenkunde Luttrell, the daughter of a powerful medicine man of the Washambala tribespeople, and William Leon Luttrell, Jr., a Bossier City, Louisiana native and then well respected professor of Economics at the University of Dar Es Salaam. Shortly after her 5th birthday, Rachel and her family immigrated to Canada, settling in the cosmopolitan city of Toronto. As a child in Toronto, Rachel studied piano at The Royal Conservatory, and studied ballet at the Russian Academy of Classical Ballet. Her father, a former member of both the critically acclaimed Toronto Mendelsohn Choir, and the Canadian Opera Company, trained Rachel’s soprano voice. Later she would study with other fine vocal coaches.