Rachel Bailit is an Actress and international acting teacher. She is a long time faculty member at The Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute in West Hollywood. In 2025, Rachel taught a Master Class at The Shanghai Theater Academy, Prior to that she taught a masterclass with David Lee Strasberg in Mallorca Spain. Rachel was a teacher at The Getty Museum, DreamWorks Animation, Warner Animation Group and The Animation Guild.

Rachel specializes in working one on one with public speaker, politicians and leaders creating opportunities for genuine communication, effective change, and growth. Her work is based on Method Acting, incorporating sense memory and emotional memory.

Rachel is a Museum Educational Consultant for Affective and Physical Engagement with Art at The Getty Museum. In addition to training museum docents, Rachel co-created a new tour “Sense Memory in Art” at The Getty Center. Rachel interacts with museum visitors from all over the world to explore the way memory and the senses engage simultaneously to create deeper, more provocative, and personal relationships with works of art. She co-created a new tour “Sense Memory in Art” at The Getty Center. Rachel interacts with museum visitors from all over the world to explore the way memory and the senses engage simultaneously to create deeper, more provocative, and personal relationships with works of art.

“Acting for Animators” is a specialized class Rachel has created for industry professionals. Using a technique she created “Method Boarding”, Rachel works with storyboard artists and technicians teaching them how to integrate personal sensorial and acting choices into unique storytelling. Most recently Rachel taught an ongoing workshop at The Gnomon School of Visual Effects, Gaming and Animation and a workshop sponsored by The Animation Guild at The Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art.

Rachel owned and operated her own casting company “Compassionate Casting” for over ten years. She cast television films, music videos and commercials.

She performed her acclaimed one-woman show, “Sugar Happens”, Directed by David Lee Strasberg, for seven years in Los Angeles, including The Comedy Central Stage, and at St. Luke’s Theatre in New York City.

Rachel currently is currently starring and filming a new film, “Declined” in Los Angeles. Last year, she starred in the film “Everyone Asked About You” (currently available on Amazon) winning her many awards including “Best Actress” at The San Francisco New Concepts Film Festival. Her other acting credits include Paramount’s “Festival In Cannes” directed by Henry Jaglom. She played alongside Jim Carrey in Ron Howard’s “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas”. Rachel has appeared in many television shows including “The Conan O’Brien Show”, “Desperate Housewives”, “Jon Benjamin Has a Van”, “Tim and Eric’s Awesome Show”, “NYPD Blue” and the role of “Marissa” in “General Hospital”. She hosts her own podcast, “Diary of an Actress”.

Rachel worked as a model for animation studios and video game companies throughout Southern California including Disney Animation, DreamWorks Animation, Sony Imageworks, Nickelodeon “The Simpsons”, “Family Guy”, “American Dad”, Blizzard Entertainment, Naughty Dog, Sony Online, Obsidian Entertainment, and Mattel Toys.

Rachel is a Red Carpet Host hosted has hosted events at CBS Studio Center for CDI Kids, and “New York In Hollywood” to benefit The CSUN Music Therapy Clinic.