Early life

Boston was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee and grew up in Signal Mountain, Tennessee before moving to New York City at the age of seventeen to attend New York University. She was Miss Tennessee Teen USA in 1999, placing in the Top 10 at the national pageant.

Career

Boston starred in the NBC series American Dreams, which aired from 2002 to 2005. She portrayed the character Beth Pryor (née Mason), the wife of the oldest son of the Pryor family, around whom the series was centered. She has made guest appearances in other series such as The Closer, Las Vegas, The Daily Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Grey's Anatomy, Rules of Engagement, and Crossing Jordan, and NCIS.

Boston landed the lead role on ABC's Ric Swartzlander comedy pilot The News (2007). The show was set in a chaotic Phoenix television newsroom. Boston was set to play a rising star at the station who was recently promoted to executive producer of all news programs. Rachel also starred with Donal Logue in the Fox pilot "Hackett" directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and starred with Ed O'Neill and Christine Baranski in the CBS pilot Inseparable.

Boston starred as Daphne Bloom in the short-lived CBS series The Ex List. In that same year she also guest starred on NBC's ER playing an American soldier. She filmed Ghosts of Girlfriends Past with Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner in February 2008. She has also filmed 500 Days of Summer with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel in spring 2008.

In early 2011, Boston joined the cast of USA Network's hit series In Plain Sight, where she plays Abigail Chaffee, an Albuquerque Police Detective and the love interest to Marshall Mann (Frederick Weller). For the fifth and final season, Boston continued her role as a series regular.

For her role opposite Noah Bean in the independent feature The Pill, Boston garnered rave reviews on the festival circuit and earned accolades including the Best Actress Award from the San Diego Film Festival, the Stargazer Award from the Gen Art Film Festival and the Emerging Artist Award from the Big Apple Film Festival.

Boston has taken her turn behind the camera in the role of executive producer for the independent film Black Marigolds. She also stars in the film, which reunites her with her costar from The Pill, Noah Bean. The film was shot over a 2-week span in the Palomar Mountain Range of Southern California.

In 2012, Boston starred in the feature film It's a Disaster alongside Julia Stiles and America Ferrera.

In 2012, Boston was cast as one of the leads in the Lifetime fantasy-drama series Witches of East End based on a novel of the same name by Melissa de la Cruz opposite Julia Ormond, Jenna Dewan and Mädchen Amick. The show debuted on October 6, 2013.

During her tenure on Witches of East End, she was cast in the original independent romantic comedy A Ring by Spring, a Hallmark original film, directed by Kristoffer Tabori. She would shortly thereafter be cast in Hallmark Movies & Mysteries' original telefilm, A Gift of Miracles opposite Jesse Moss and Rita Moreno.

Shortly after Lifetime's cancellation of Witches of East End, Boston would sign on as series regular in CBS civil rights crime drama pilot For Justice, a project from Ava DuVernay and starring Anika Noni Rose, a project that CBS did not pick up to series. After For Justice, Boston would later be cast in Hallmark Channel's original telefim, Ice Sculpture Christmas as part of their annual Countdown to Christmas event. In April 2016, Boston would confirm in an Instagram post, that she had completed filming Stop the Wedding, an original telefilm with Hallmark Channel, co-starring Alan Thicke and Teryl Rothery, and that the film would premiere June 11th as part of Hallmark Channel's 2nd Annual June Weddings Event.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	Smoking Herb	Jaquelyn Mason
2006	Fifty Pills	Lindsay
2009	(500) Days of Summer	Alison
2009	Ghosts of Girlfriends Past	Deena the Bridesmaid
2010	10 Years Later	Kyra Lee
2011	Chance of Showers	Woman in Yellow
2011	The Pill	Mindy	San Diego Film Festival Award for Best Actress Gen Art Film Festival Award for Best Actress NY Emerging Talent Award
2012	Blind Turn	Samantha Holt
2012	Coming Home	Megan Morgan
2012	It's a Disaster	Lexi Kivel
2012	Christmas Crush: Holiday High School Reunion	Georgia	TV Movie, also Executive Producer
2013	Black Marigolds	Kate Cole	also Executive Producer
2013	Who the F Is Buddy Applebaum	Janie
2014	A Ring by Spring	Caryn Briggs	TV Movie, also Associate Producer
2015	A Gift of Miracles	Darcy	TV Movie, also Associate Producer
2015	Ice Sculpture Christmas	Callie	TV Movie, also Associate Producer
2016	Stop the Wedding	Annabelle Coakley

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	Andy Dick Show, TheThe Andy Dick Show	Tina	Episode: "Professor Talcum"
2002-2005	American Dreams	Beth Mason	Series regular, 50 episodes
2005	Peep Show	Marsha	TV pilot
2005	Closer, TheThe Closer	Jennifer	Episode: "About Face"
2005	Love, Inc.	Jill	Episode: "Thick and Thin"
2006	Inseparable	Steph	TV pilot
2006	Crumbs	Alison	Episode: "Maybe I'm Tony Randall"
2006	Loop, TheThe Loop	Jenna	Episode: "Jack Air"
2006	Happy Hour	Shauna	Episode: "Crazy Girls"
2006	NCIS	Siri Albert	Episode: "Dead and Unburied"
2006	7th Heaven	Ms. Margo	3 episodes
2007	News, TheThe News	April Tarnoff	TV pilot
2007	Grey's Anatomy	Rachel	Episode: "Great Expectations"
2007	Crossing Jordan	Geneva Todd	Episode: "Mr. Little and Mr. Big"
2007	Rules of Engagement	Amy	Episode: "Flirting with Disaser"
2007	Las Vegas	Patsy	Episode: "The Glass Is Always Cleaner"
2007	Curb Your Enthusiasm	Waitress	Episode: "The N Word"
2008	Hackett	Audrey	TV pilot
2008	ER	Beth Ackerman	Episode: "Status Quo"
2008-2011	Ex List, TheThe Ex List	Daphne Bloom	Series regular, 12 episodes
2009	Cleaner, TheThe Cleaner	Ruby Geiler	Episode: "Split Ends"
2009	Eastwick	Charlene	Episode: "Fleas and Casserole"
2010	Accidentally on Purpose	Brenda	Episode: "Speed"
2010	Scoundrels	Tanya Leterre	3 episodes
2010	Castle	Penny Marchand	Episode: "He's Dead, She's Dead"
2011	Mad Love	Erin Sinclaire	Episode: "Fireworks" Episode: "The Spy Who Loved Me"
2011-2012	In Plain Sight	Det. Abigail Chaffee	Series regular, 16 episodes
2013-2014	Witches of East End	Ingrid Beauchamp	Series regular, 23 episodes
2015	For Justice	Lisa	TV pilot

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