Rachel Alana Handler is an American actress, singer and motivational speaker who is best known for playing Chunks in the 2016 horror movie Smothered.
In her early career she performed with Kelli O'Hara at Carnegie Hall in “The Best of Lerner and Loewe” [2] and had made appearances in Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway theatrical productions.
[10] Her recent article "Stop Excluding Actors With Disabilities" was posted to the front page of Backstage.
[24] She is currently working on a screenplay loosely based on her life, as well as filming guest starring roles in Goliath and NCIS: New Orleans.
Her appearance in NCIS: New Orleans was met with praise from the online publication The Mighty: "I kept expecting the character’s disability to suddenly become key to the story, but it never did.