Rachel Alana Handler

Rachel Alana Handler is an American actress, singer and motivational speaker who is best known for playing Chunks in the 2016 horror movie Smothered. Early life Handler was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Raised in Linwood, New Jersey, she is a graduate of Mainland Regional High School. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance from the Westminster Choir College. In her early career she performed with Kelli O'Hara at Carnegie Hall in “The Best of Lerner and Loewe” and had made appearances in Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway theatrical productions. She did months of rehab from a car accident, and now walks with prosthesis and has become an advocate for actors with disabilities. Career In 2015, she was honored as part of Atlantic City Weekly's "Top 40 Under 40" Handler's contributions and interviews on her personal experiences and inclusion of disabled actors in the arts have been featured on Quora, Disabled World, Little Bits of Good, and Backstage.com. Her recent article "Stop Excluding Actors With Disabilities" was posted to the front page of Backstage.